In this anonymous episode we talk to "Mary" who shares her experience of coercive control. **TRIGGER WARNING**
- How coercive control is hard to notice until you are out of it.
- How it tends to happen slowly.
- How, 30 years ago, the words "Coercive Control" wew not even in our lexicon.
- The stages of coercive control and how red flags can be innocently and easily missed.
- How she hated being married and how it started to go wrong in a year.
- How it lasted over two and a half decades.
- When the physical violence kicked in and how to the police at the time it was "just a domestic"
- The divorce process and avoiding manipulation.
- Her experience of gaslighting.
- How materially "on paper" she had everything, but was screaming inside.
- How she has recently- very very recently found her sensible side.
- The reasons why people stay - the rationale they use to stay.
- Her new, free life and what she most desires now.
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