I Had an Exit Affair to End My Abusive Marriage

His narcissism forced me to make an impossible choice.

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I had tried to leave multiple times in the early months and years of our marriage but he told me he would ‘never let me leave’ and took steps to ensure that I couldn’t.

In the latter years, after I had become a human doormat for him, everything about me repulsed him…