Hi All
Thanks for your encouraging words. My husband forced me to give up work (detail removed by Moderator) ago. He started forcing me to call in sick for days just to “keep him company”. If I refused I was subjected to days of verbal abuse. Eventually he started using my son as ammunition- “if I was a good mother I’d be at home waiting for my son to return from school”.
When I started to receive written warnings about my sick leave he got aggressive and asked me what the hell I was playing at. Anyway, nothing improved and I was dismissed. I tried telling my managers at work but they just told me there was nothing they could do. They suggested I tell social services.
As for staying with friends and family – there are none. My husband has driven them all away. My closest friend, who I haven’t seen in years only lives in a bedsit and could not accommodate us anyway. My dad is dead and my mum is in a care home suffering from dementia.
I’m currently sitting in my bedroom too scared to go downstairs. I’m not afraid of physical abuse but my husband has just enrolled in a university degree and doesn’t have the intelligence to complete it. He will be expecting me to do the work for him – and if I don’t do a good job I’m a bitch. Only this degree is in (detail removed by Moderator) or something absurd like that so I’m clueless. That’s going to mean hours of name calling and put downs and just no escape.
