HOW COULD HE ABUSE MY GIRL?
Jun 14, 2022
4 minutes
WORDS: RACHEL TOMPKINS.
‘I PUT HER MOODS DOWN TO PUBERTY’
When life doesn’t work out how you planned, you realise what and who is important. In early 2018, my husband and I had split up after 18 years together and I needed my friends more than ever.
Ricky was there for me, just as he’d always been during difficult times. ‘Fancy a takeaway tonight?’ he asked, knowing I needed the company. He ordered us pizza – knowing exactly what topping I’d want – and brought round a bottle of wine. We spent the evening putting the world to rights and for a little while it distracted me from my heartache.
I had first met Ricky, then 38, about 13 years earlier when I was pregnant with
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