How I survived years of coercive control and how I found the strength to leave
I decided to tell my story now I’ve hit the age my ex was when I met him. The grand age of 42 and I was 16….. I want to give hope to women that might be in dark places and show them there is light at the end of the tunnel. Despite everything how I managed to keep my head aware, my mind clear and strong which gave me a sense of my own control. The beginning How does someone who’s 16 connect to a 42 year old? This is the question that I asked myself but as I’ve got older I realised why I got so attracted and attached. Also what does a 42 year old see in a 16 year old? Especially now I have hit that age and see a 16 year old as a child. Anyway, I joined a karate class and he had a daughter there. I’ll go into more detail later but it was my 16th birthday and I got a new mobile phone ( my first one) he showed me how to set it up and put his number in and said “call me now see if it works” and that’s how it began. The dream and the fall We bought a house a big i...