"This week, a woman in her 40s with two adult children tells her story"
"We met in a nightclub. He wasn't from Ireland. It was a fairly quick relationship, we were married in under two years. It was pretty rapid."
"We were married for nearly 10 years. Looking back, it was a situation of coercive control, but 15, 20 years ago, coercive control wasn't as spoken about, it wasn't a thing to take through the courts or anything, like it is now. It certainly wasn't something that I was aware of at the time."
A woman in her forties with two adult children met her partner in a nightclub. He was not from Ireland. The relationship progressed rapidly and they married in under two years. The marriage lasted nearly ten years. In retrospect she describes the relationship as marked by coercive control. Fifteen to twenty years ago coercive control was not widely discussed, recognized, or treated by the courts. She did not understand the concept at the time and legal pathways to address such behaviour were limited. The account emphasizes the speed of the relationship and the later recognition of controlling dynamics.
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