This is a powerful story. A mum with two young girls leaves her husband suddenly after years of psychological abuse and manipulation. I was drawn into her tragic situation as she desperately seeks somewhere to live, faced with a broken housing system and constant pressure from her husband to return. She worries if she is doing the right thing - was it really so awful, is she such a bad mum? - and I feared the threat of danger should she go back.
There it is, deep in her chest. Louder than before: enough. She should have left this morning, while he was at work. Why couldn’t she listen to her own intuition? She should wait until tomorrow, but something has snapped now, broken. She cannot endure another night, has to seize this moment of clarity, before the fog descends again. Before he walks back out here smiling, and she convinces herself again that it's all in her mind.
