Abuse casts a long dark shadow, doesn’t it. Yes, you’re so right to feel the sadness and the grief for that poor woman who was you, being subjected to the horrors of it all. We can’t unsee it.
I had a brief fling with someone a while ago. I got out within a few weeks as it dawned on my that he was just like my ex husband. Very early on he started waving red flags around all over the place.
Thank the gods you have no ties to him! My ex has made a brief contact with the children. He’s grooming one of them. Seen it all before. Yuck. He’ll be lying to his partner and of course we are painted black apart from the one he’s onto.