SPLITTING FREE

The fact that you had sex with someone merely to get even with me startled me. Her head sagged. This was not intended to happen. She was not the villain. Amelia John is 43 years old, married, and has two adult children. Olivia, who is nineteen and in college, and Daniel, who is twenty-two and married to Mary. Jack and Amelia have been married for twenty-three years after dating for twenty-five. He is also a pig. Her husband Jack had gradually seized control of every area of her life over the years. Without her realizing it, her friends started to slip away gradually, and she stopped getting invitations to coffee dates or happy hours. He was in total command of her life. He made all of her travel, activity, and contact decisions. He never used force against her. But he had psychological and emotional influence over her. She needed some time—actually, years—to realize that she had been mostly cut off from her family and friends. Her initial reaction was to take the kids and leave when she finally realized what he had done. He persuaded her that what he did was for the benefit of the children as much as for her by making it apparent that he would never permit it and that he would do everything in his power to prove that she was a bad mother. similar to many other women in her position. Read on to learn how she managed to liberate herself.