Anna (not her real name) remembers a discussion with her company social worker several years before her divorce proceedings. “I had worked even more relentlessly,” she confides, determined today to share her journey because “many women say nothing.
They feel guilty and don't know where to find help.” This forty-year-old, who says she lived under the influence of her husband for years, adds: “Now I'm talking about it, because we have to talk about it. Before, I felt very ashamed”