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Maria's experience

 

"I was in a relationship for just over three years and all was great at the start, he was lovely, I couldn’t have met a nicer guy you know. I’d been single for quite a while before I met him and obviously I had to consider my daughter in this relationship so I didn’t plunge in to begin with. I was with him for about six months and I moved in with him and about six months later we got engaged.  It was the night after we got engaged. He just went mental, kicked me down to the floor, booting in to me, ripped all the units off the kitchen walls, calling me all sorts of names.

"There wasn’t just physical abuse, there was mental abuse, constant comments about my weight, picking at bits of my flesh and saying Oh God you’re getting fat, I’ll never leave him because I need him and nobody else would ever want me.

"I went out, in the whole time I was with him, three times , it was constant phone calls, texts, find out where I am, who I’m talking to, so there wasn’t really any point in going out because it was just constant, you know, checking up on me.. I lost quite a few friends because of that, because it wasn’t worth me meeting them for the hassle, you know. It meant I was isolated, I totally lost all my confidence, I stopped going out, I was in the house all the time just where he wanted me.  I realise that now, obviously, looking back."

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