ASIN: B00OI0AQ6G
Publisher: Jill James
Pages: 70
Tragic true life stories autobiography of the physical abuse suffered at the hands of a alcohol induced abusive husband. She lived in fear of his physical and sexual abuse, and often wandered the streets late at night, sometimes barely dressed, and in the early hours to escape his clutches in fear for her life. He used mental abuse and rape in the relationship to control her everyday life, causing much stress and depression and suicidal thoughts.
In the early seventies there was no such thing as a 'Women's refuge' (a safe house), for battered women, and victims of violence, committed by violent men, and the police treated any complaints as a simple 'Domestic' dispute instead of domestic abuse, the abusive partner was either given a good talking to or at worse a night in the cells to calm down. When the children came along things went from bad to worse, and when she finally broke free ...
