I am a regular but I've namechanged for this. I don't think her husband cyber-stalks me, but just in case, I'm not going to put her at ANY risk whatsoever, so forgive the namechange. If you guess who I am, please don't actually put my name to this thread. Thank you.
Right... I have a friend whose husband is violent towards her. He hasn't (as far as I know) been violent in the very recent past, but there is a history of it.
There is a long list of things that she can and can't do, people she can and can't see, places she can and can't go. You know the sort of thing.
He has just resigned from his job so is now at home full-time. He takes the children to school. He picks them up afterwards. If she leaves the house at all, he is with her. She is not allowed to be on her own AT ALL.
I know that there is nothing that I can do until she asks for help, but in this situation, how CAN she ask for help? Is there anything that I actually can do to help her?
I have been through similar myself so I am more than aware of what is likely to be happening, and she possibly cannot see for herself quite how controlling he is, although she is desperately unhappy, I know that.
Any advice will be muchly appreciated.
If I don't come back to this thread under this name, don't think anything of it, I shall be lurking under my "real" posting name.
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FriendOfBatteredWife · 11/07/2008 16:01
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