Nine years ago I was newly pregnant when I was violently attacked by my boyfriend at the time. We were having an argument; he hit me in the face causing my ear to bleed, then clamped his hand over my mouth, suffocating me, and told me repeatedly that he would kill me. He said afterwards that the incident only lasted 20 seconds, but those 20 seconds were to change my whole life irrevocably.
It doesn't matter who he was. He could have been anyone. I don't want to identify him, but he was probably different to the man you're imagining: he was more than 10 years older than me, well-spoken, intellectual, ex-private school, cruel, abusive; he was also funny, smart, kind, affectionate, and I was deeply in love with him and thrilled to be carrying his baby. People are complex, and to demonise him and paint him in black and white doesn't make sense that isn't how real life works.
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from Pregnancy | The Guardian http://ift.tt/1qE8HxA
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