Several years ago Mary (not her real name) an American citizen met a man and like many women before her she finally thought she had met the man of her dreams. But after years of physical, verbal, mental and emotional abuse, sojourns in hospitals and 911 calls she only wished that the day he walked into her life had been a figment of her imagination.
She met the Guyanese man at a boxing gym in Brooklyn, New York and two weeks later they exchanged numbers. A red flag was shoved in front of her when a woman called her number and told her she was pregnant for the man. He denied this and swept her off her feet with sweet nothings and quickly moved into the home she shared with three children.
It was then she learnt that he was married to a woman who had a child for
