Chapter 1

 

I hesitated at the front door of the home I shared with my girlfriend, dreading to go inside. Despite me fully knowing that it had reached the point where I had no other choice but to face her.

What was wrong with me? You're a grown man in your thirties I tried to give myself courage, but yet I now found myself reduced to the young adult I had once been, who had always hated any conflict, especially involving a potentially dramatic scene with an angry female.

And I had no doubt in my mind that Sue my girlfriend and soon to be ex would be angry, furious in fact when I gave her the bad news that I no longer wanted to go on with our volatile relationship. Ironically it was Sue's on an off psychotic behaviour in the first place that had made me want out of our union. I could no longer cope with her jealous rages where she would lash out at me for so much as having my gaze pointing innocently in the wrong direction, or her temper tantrums when she did not get her own way, which was not that often. I had allowed Sue to take me for granted for some time as I said nothing, in the hope of a peaceful life.