How easy is it to leave a physically abusive relationship?
I found it surprisingly hard to leave despite the fact that all the circumstances were in my favour. My ex was rarely violent but would enforce certain rules like If I visited a friend I would then have to stay up the exact number of hours I had spent away from him and make it up to him and god help me if I seemed tired and did not give him my full attention. So an evening with a friend would mean I had to stay up until 4 in the morning. If I was late home from work he would interrogate me for hours about which man I had been seeing and get infuriated by my ‘lies’ that I had been held up at work. If I tried to leave the room he would throw me back into the room shouting ‘Just tell me the truth’ He would also keep me up for hours getting me to admit I felt or had said this or that about him. ‘Just admit it!’ over and over. It is perhaps not surprising I did admit to all sorts of things and apologised just to be left alone. This led to him bringing up these admissions repeatedly and call
