Dear waterfoot
I am almost (detail removed by moderator) and have just walked out of a (detail removed by moderator) year old marriage. I picked up my phone my lap top and a swimming costume, I am at a hotel miles away from where I was living. I have told no one. I have been acting out a lie for years and feel ashamed as to how I fooled people into seeing what I wanted them to see. I am very scared and a big part of me wants to go back. I have been living on egg shells – he will not see what he was doing was abuse. The shouting, the name calling, the blaim and the pushing me around. No support from my grown up daughter – She lived through it and now she is so angry I did not protect her – and now she has turned out just like him. A shouter and just no empathy
It is all so sad and I hate to see it in print.
Good luck to you. Xx