“I was 19 when I met my ex-partner. It was almost like I’d waited forever to meet someone as genuine and funny as him.“We started to spend a lot of time together.
I would travel for hours to see him and we were inseparable for the most part. Things seemed pretty normal, I didn’t really question things at the time but now I look back and know that the behaviour he portrayed was not normal, nor healthy.“He would lock me in the house “to keep me safe”, as he would say.“He used to hide my bank card so I couldn’t buy train tickets to get back home, but it wasn’t malicious he just 'wanted to spend more time with me'.“I spent a lot of time staying over for a few days at a time then travelling back, but he always convinced me to stay longer.
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