Shattered Dreams

He came, he saw and he conquered. Her heart. Her soul. He lay the world at her feet. Calling her ten times a day to tell her how much he missed and loved her. He was the stuff her dreams were made of. She couldn’t wait to get married to him. They did and he slapped her. Hard. Shocked she wondered if it was her fault he turned from a caring man to a violent one. She waited and hoped. But the days were filled with accusations, abuses and beatings. She didn’t recognise the man anymore. He was her nightmare. She feared him and loathed him. But couldn’t leave him. She didn’t know how. She was told marriages are meant to be kept not broken. So she endured him while her dreams lay shattered around her. She was one of those women who carried on with their lives hoping that it would one day be the ideal one. The one they always dreamed of.