I’m sat here counting up what has been taken from me in the last few days. I can’t give details because Family Court silences women but .... wow. This is hard. My funds to retire on ill health wiped out. Women who have been abused get abused so much more when they go to court.

God I wish I could tell you. The unfairness would make you scream. Still. You can’t buy people. My daughter and I are free women now. Free of him. There is no price to be put on that.

In turn ...money can’t make an abuser happy. Because his misery comes from within. His ugly is inside and outside and all around him. Forever. He gets to keep that all for himself.

But Family Court though .... that place needs dragging apart with women’s teeth and building from the ground again. Abused women are torn to shreds there and no one allowed to breathe a word of it. Not one word. Shhhhh. It stinks. Like abuse.

I know many of you know this. I can feel your heads nodding with me. This is not an isolated incident. I’ve never had an issue over child custody. There was only ever going to be one winner there and everyone knew it. The cloud of him has gone.