I never thought I would be in an abusive relationship. I grew up in a household where my mom and I were verbally and emotionally abused.
Knowing the signs and seeing what my mom had to endure, I thought I was somehow immune. I’m 33. In 2019, I divorced my husband of three and a half years, whom I’d dated seven years prior to our engagement, because I was no longer happy.
To him, it was out of the blue. To me, it had been building for a long time, and I’d been expressing my unhappiness for quite a while before I told him I wanted a divorce.
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