After spending 23 years with a psychopathic husband, I thought I’d feel better quickly once I was no longer living with him – wrong. Apparently, I was in denial as to the extent of the abuse since he stopped physically abusing me years ago – and ramped up the psychological, emotional, sadistic, covert abuse to an 11! He also used the abuse from my childhood to manipulate my emotions and control me. It finally ended almost 9 months ago and I have been in extensive therapy for trauma – something I had no idea I’d be dealing with as the result of leaving him. I […]