He reduced me to tears and caused me to give up on the justice system. If only he and my ex-husband knew quite how tirelessly I had worked to try to get the sort of job I was qualified for. I was so desperate for money that, in the end, I took a five-month contract with a TV station in Jersey as the only way to get myself back into the business. I thought about taking my sons with me, but it didn’t seem fair to uproot them again from their schools. They had already moved with me from what had once been the family home in Wiltshire to London. I couldn’t inflict that on them again.