Researchers, who polled over 2,000 women living in the UK, discovered one in five women had experienced economic abuse in the past year from a current partner or an ex with the issue estimated to have impacted 5.5 million women.
"I was too scared to go back to our home so I had to move back in with my parents, scraping together enough money to pay the mortgage and bills completely on my own. I needed help from the bank, but I couldn't believe how difficult it was. No one understood that I'd been abused all they cared about was that I paid back the loan. I felt completely trapped and the toll this took on my mental health was extreme."
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