Despite living apart I was doing my best to make my marriage work and I thought he was doing the same till he showed me his real true self again and it would smack me in the face and leave me bruised and broken forever.

He started acting strange again; not answering calls, or when he did answer he would be strange.

When he did call, he was abusive and rude again and

often laughing hysterically in the background. One phone call really freaked me out when he told me he was heading to Russia at the weekend. I was shocked to say the least. He didn’t have a reason to go to Russia again like he had done years and years ago. Also how was he going to financially afford such a trip when I was the one financing us both? Times were hard and we had to watch