The golden advice is when you spot any sign of violence in a potential partner, you should run… It’s not as cut and dried as that, “confessed Gloria, a 38-year-old tax consultant who recently escaped from the controlling clutches of a partner she referred to as a ‘nasty piece of work’.
“We took his car and the next day, when we got to the venue of the wedding, he yelled at me for getting out f the car first and bared at me to ‘come back here’. I was mildly socked but quickly went back inside the car and he berated that I was never to walk ahead of him again – always alongside or behind him. Of course, I marched back to the hotel, disgusted and ready to pack my bags. As I got the keys from the reception, he begged me to forgive him – he had a bad week at the office. So did I.