Domestic Violence GET OUT

I just wanted to share a bit of my Story hoping even if I help get one person out of this situation I will be over the moon!
About six years ago I finally got the strength to walk out on my now ex partner after over a year of abuse, i got talked down to on a daily basis and beaten at least once a week even when I was pregnant! Before anyone says I should have gotten away sooner

I agree with you I should have but until you’ve been in that kind of situation you really will never know how much easier it is said than done. I broken up with him for good when I was about 7 months pregnant, but he watched me 24/7 and still gave me abuse over the phone and got others to do the same.

When my little girl was six months old I dropped her off with my mum for the day and night, I went shopping for baby food and other bits and then had two drinks before heading home.

Long story short he had gotten into the building my flat was in and I remember nothing other than seeing him and reaching the top floor my flat was on.

I woke up in hospital getting stitches in my lips. As I was being taken to x-ray the nurse taking me asked me if I had been in a car crash!!

One of the police offers who came to talk to me the next day said he had seen less blood at a stabbing scene. The police got him but he was shortly let out on bail. I continued to get abuse by phone and he and other would hang around my flat block

On every occasion I rang the police he and his friends all denied it and give each other alibis he even tried to kick my door in and nothing got done. Eventually he got sentenced to 18 months in jail but got out in 9!!

The police later told me that he had been in prison for doing the same to pervious partners. They decided they wanted to nail him for everything he had done and we soon got court dates for our witness statements.

Fast forward four years!! The trial finally started on Monday! And finally finished today. There were about 15 witnesses four of which were ex partners. Four years of him sacking lawyers one after the other, four years of getting ourselves worked up for court the next day to get a call saying it wasn’t going ahead again an hour before you go bed! But I did it!! And if I can do it so can you!!!

If any Mummy or Daddy reading this right now are in ANY kind of abusive relationship I want you know you can do it! You are strong enough! You WILL cope and it WILL get better! And if it ever happens to go to court please don’t make yourselves ill with worry like me, it really wasn’t that bad! You are not there to be his/her punching bag or there for him/her to calling all the names under the sun!! Do it for you!!

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