This is a chapter from my Memoir - Never Forsaken in which I detail the days of depression, drama and fear I endured that led to drawing my strength to finally leave an unhealthy and failing relationship. The most resounding message from this episode is that I can still recall being told that I was doing "too much" with my life and made to feel that my talents and gift of entrepreneurship was a a sign of failure instead of the fact that my success was an actual threat to his control and manipulation. The less I had, the more I needed him and the more I needed him, the more in control of my life he was.

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