6 Simple Financial 'Must do's When We Leave Our Abuser's


How many horror stories have you heard when your friends break up their relationship or marriage? We even have our own horror stories. It is not enough that we are separating and starting lives on our own, which can be as frightening as the relationship we have left. It can feel like a tornado blowing through our lives, spinning everything up in the air and spitting our most treasured things in our lives out, dismantled and broken. We hold on tight to what we believe is important, only to find we just couldn’t catch it all. It can lead to more anxiety, depression and stress.


When I left I thought I had managed to get everything in order only to find I


had dropped some of the most


important pieces that I needed. Oh yes, I made lists but I forgot something or simply just hadn’t for seen some of the things I would have needed to have taken care of.


We juggle our new homes, settling children in or going for custody and work. We try and keep everything as “normal” as we can, which is tough when you are leaving an abusive marriage because we ask ourselves “What is normal” We struggle with it because our abusers would take control over everything and I mean everything! So I’m here to tell what I missed, so you don’t make the same mistakes I did. I’m going to talk_ finance!


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