Thank you for all your kind, supportive messages. It is both comforting and empowering to have somewhere to be able to open and honest about what’s happened and how I feel. As others have said, I have come close to leaving in the past but could never bring myself to be one to end the marriage. Feel very differently about it now, his physical abuse has been the catalyst that has finally given me the strength and determination to end this. There is only one shot at life and everyone deserves to feel safe and have the opportunity to find happiness.
