Escape and recovery: Starting over after an abusive marriage

“I am just trying to put my life back together and move on. It was not easy and all the things I suffer, sometimes I don’t want to think about it. But the memories are just there, is not two cents I went through with that man. I did everything I could to save the marriage, but it just was not working.”

The words of a mother of one who was married for 18 months. She had moved to a Caribbean island in the hope of making life better but instead she was forced to escape with her child from a man she said was not only abusive to her but their baby daughter.

I met her through an acquaintance, and she agreed to share her story.