[Anonymous]

That’s so true. You end up lying to protect them, trying to ignore the lies, the glazed drunken eyes, you start believing their excuses: perhaps if I was nicer, a better girlfriend, more tolerant, he’d stop. The thousands of pounds he took from me is hard to bear, particularly as he then accused me of putting him under pressure when he said he couldn’t pay for a train ticket after having told me he’d been saving money.

Alcoholism is the worst xxx