Last week, Theresa May unveiled plans to protect women under the Government’s new Domestic Abuse Bill It is hard to put into words how difficult it is to leave an abusive relationship. Any woman about to do it must dig deep enough to re-discover things her partner has deliberately and systematically stripped from her: courage, self-belief, a sense of worth, and people who love and will support her.
I was 26 years old when I realised I had to do that digging. I had been with my partner at the time for two years when the relationship became abusive. I […]
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