Wendy Newell was stuck in her relationship for so long she barely recognised herself.
When she finally escaped after 17 years of an unhappy marriage, she was a jobless alcoholic with severe debts and no access to her two sons so she turned to religion to get out of debt.
I was lost in that marriage, the 55-year-old told news.com.au. Id become a shell.
Im an intelligent woman, but looking back, now my eyes are open I can see the manipulation.
He was controlling what I did, who I saw, what I wore. You lose yourself in that.
Wendy, from Newcastle in New South Wales, claims she was not allowed to work or even talk to other people. When I started getting friends, wed move, she said.
That happened six times, until she was far away from her family i…
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