Before I became the quiet wife he wanted, I was a contract auditor.
Five years at Harrowgate and Vell, which is one of the most aggressive litigation firms in this city, going through the finances of men exactly like my husband for a living.
I gave it up in 2019 because he asked me to.
He said a Wrexham wife did not need to work. He said it at a dinner in front of his parents and his mother nodded, and I handed in my notice on the Monday, and I told myself for five years that it had been my decision.
He had never once asked what I actually used to do. He knew the name of the firm. He did not know what an auditor does.
And he was not careful.
When he locked me out of our money in a hurry, in a temper, on a Sunday night, he forgot that I had set up half the online banking in that house in 2018.
