I GOT OUT !!!!!

It took me a whole week. He went berserk and tried to have me arrested for fraud and theft from the company. He turned up at the office with this female solicitor in tow “as an independent witness” he said as he “served a dismissal letter” on me. He resigned me as a director and had been to the Police and accused me of stealing money. They wanted to arrest me (so he said) but he told them not to. Fact is, if the Police think a crime has taken place they will arrest anyway. It’s not up to anyone to ‘give them permission’. The reason why they didn’t is because I am an equal director and entitled to take whatever money I want out of the company and use it for whatever I want. I’ve never done it before – he has! He has consistently used company money to pay household bills, mortgage and so forth thus increasing his salary but avoiding tax, which is a classic case of misappropriating company funds. I’ve never complained. Would have been useless anyway as it would have given him an excuse to abuse me again.

The worst thing about last week is that he demanded I hand over my keys to the office, including my private office which I had been keeping locked. I was so terrified I did it thus giving him access to all my personal files – my new address, details of this blog anything he wanted that I had been keeping under lock and key instead of in our family home. I knew he could and would be nasty but I must admit he surprised even me. It didn’t stop me going though.

With each and every journey to and from the house with my stuff I kept thinking I’m getting ever closer to my personal freedom here. Ever closer to getting my life back. By the end of the week I was exhausted, my legs were hurting where I had been carrying heavy boxes up and down stairs. My back was shot. I was done in. But you know what? That physical pain was worth it because it came through my working for something I really wanted – freedom! Not from being beaten. Interestingly, the Olympics were on at the same time. The athletes were really pushing themselves to do their best and I kept thinking this is my Olympics.

Well, I’ve got the Gold now.

He says now that he is sorry for what he did to me last week. Says he was badly advised by his solicitor – damn right! I said I would only accept his apology if he made it official by writing me a letter refuting all of his accusations of last week and admitting that he knew about the money, which he did. He wrote me the letter.

Now he says it’s great that we’ve got some space away from each other, that it will be good for us – damn right again sonny!

Frankly, I still don’t think I have shaken him off and we still have the business to sort out but at least I am in a stronger position than I was before. I’m not gonna say too much about my plans now (just in case he is reading this) but you will have heard the expression ‘keep your friends close but your enemies closer’. Well, that’s how it feels I have to play it right now. I need to let him think he still has a little bit of control, a little bit of a say and he will behave impeccably. I need to do that whilst I build up my resources again. And besides there are aspects of the game that are quite intriguing like that he knows but he doesn’t know I know he knows and he has to pretend that he doesn’t know because if he let on that he does know then I will know he has been spying because that’s the only way he will have got the information. Sounds complicated? Trust me. I know what I am doing and I know him.