This week I did what I like to call a “Thought Experiment”. Almost a year ago, when I was in a relationship with someone who had physically abused me, I was desperately looking for any reason to stay. Naturally, when you go looking for any and every reason to do something, you will find reasons. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that, in a scenario like this, it’s better to look at the glaringly obvious reasons to not stay at all.

The problem is that I could not come up with a concrete reason w