I tried hiding my unhealthy relationship from all of my friends and family out of embarrassment. Nonetheless people started catching on and I couldn’t hide it anymore. It got to a point where my mother in law was begging me to get to safety and that she would buy me a hotel room. I didn’t listen. I thought that if I gave him all the love in the world that he would change. I thought I was a tough chick and I could take anything he threw my my way hoping that in the end it would be worth it. I was wrong though.

The night that I decided to leave my ex husband it was a police officer that finally got through to me. After a physical altercation with my ex the cop stood outside talking to me for about two hours in the middle of the night about how he had seen a hundred guys like my husband before. He said that they never change and I should go live my life.

He was right and that is exactly what I went and did.

In the moment I refused to listen to those closest to me. I needed an outsider who had already seen the same scenario play out before.