She was the victim of violence from her ex-boyfriend. The facts go back several months. She filed a complaint and is now trying to rebuild herself.

Believing that it is important to free the floor, she agreed to testify anonymously. Her objective today is not to describe the repeated violence of which she was the target, but to explain the psychological path of a battered woman. She wants to try to make the entourage of the victims understand why they do not leave, stay with "their executioner", how he manipulates them.

Nota bene: In order not to interfere with the progress of the legal proceedings, no details of the relationship of this couple allowing to identify them will be given.

" It was too good to be true "

"It was an exceptionally wonderful story," is how she describes the start of their relationship. "He was the man I expected". The romance was short-lived, however. A few weeks after their meeting, she agrees to move in with him. "At that moment, the doors closed on me," she confides, mimicking with her hands a curtain that closes over her face.

For several months and on a regular basis, she will be subjected to violence. She thought about and / or tried to quit him five or six times but never succeeded. “In this kind of relationship, there are phases: phases of violence but also phases of honeymoons. And we only live for the latter, ”she explains.

“The first time he hit me, I was in shock,” she admits. “We are so surprised when this happens to us,” she said. “My companion apologized. He seemed appalled by her gesture and told me he had never been violent with a woman, that he would not do it again. He had flowers delivered to me at work, he was so sad and ashamed. I forgave him. ” Till next time. Without knowing it, she had just entered a state that psychologists call psychic astonishment: the shock is such that it prevents the brain from reacting. (to be continued in our next edition)

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