Forty-eight-year-old Mary (not her real name) has had a pain-filled existence for most of her life, as a result of abuse in all forms that started from her childhood days. But she has finally managed to break the shackles and in her own words has now “started to really live”.

Twenty-six years of being cuffed and kicked around by her husband along with marital rape and verbal and emotional abuse only ended for Mary …..