Diary of Abuse by a Loved One Chapter 1 Page 20

I also found it comforting too. As I stared at Lucy, I kept glancing at all the other children, running around free with not a care in the world. I wondered what it would be like for Lucy and I to have a life like that. A life where we perhaps could just be free to do what we wanted and not care about looking over our shoulder or be controlled.

I sat there silently and enjoyed the moment and thought long and hard about what the nurse had told me.

Help was available…I just had to ask for it.

I had not really realised that I had become even more isolated since Lucy was born without really realising it. I guess I hadn’t noticed all the friends who were no longer in my life, and I thought or presumed that they