“I’m moving out. I don’t think I want to be married anymore. I’m not happy” came the calm reply, after I had cornered my husband and asked what was wrong. He had been avoiding me all night. Those words were like a hammer to my chest. Suddenly everything felt surreal. We had been unhappy in our marriage for a few years, but I didn’t think things were as bad as that. Now I look back, I can see that my husband had been verbally and emotionally abusing me for years, but all I could think was he was leaving me. [...]