The cost of living crisis is triggering a tsunami of financial abuse cases – but the signs can be hard to spot
People usually think of relationship abuse as verbal or violent. But one in five women in the UK have experienced financial abuse, according to the latest research.
“I’m over seven years free of his hold and yet my credit score is a joke. I have debt from when I was with him because he put my name on the bills. "When I first met my husband Tom* – handsome, popular and with a home of his own – I never dreamt I’d end up saddled with debt, paying off credit cards and struggling to make a decent life for our two young children.
He sold his house within six weeks and I rented mine out. We both had money, him from his house sale, but I knew it wouldn’t last forever so I got a job. But Tom acted like it was an extended holiday and lived off his money. I took over a property legal services business and took Tom on as director in charge of marketing. He sent a handful of emails in two years.
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