Michèle (first name has been changed) is now 65 years old and she can finally put into words what she experienced. She was 19 when she met her future husband who was 35 and already had two children from a previous union.
He constantly belittles her, humiliates her, wants to control her every move. “He said he was going to kill me” “I didn’t want my loved ones, my parents or my children, to know,” she sighs.