‘After I had our baby it took my partner just eight weeks to attack me in our home’

The relationship went from loving to intrusive very quickly (Picture: Getty Images)

‘I think about you more than you think about me,’ my ex-partner, Clive*, told me when I explained I wasn’t going to cancel plans with my friends that evening.

‘I’d do anything for you,’ he continued. ‘I’d cancel my friends for you, I just want to spend all my time with you but you don’t seem to want to do that with me.’

He laid the guilt on pretty thick, but it worked – I bailed on my plans.

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