1990-91 - as I was living full-time in the Midlands I didn't see Elaine very often. We kept in contact though and she'd tell be about the latest in her efforts to divorce her husband.
He wasn't having any of it. He didn't instruct a solicitor, he ignored legal papers or sent them back, when court officials came to serve papers he wouldn't let them in.
The months rolled on and her husband still refused to let her see her boys. He also wouldn't let any one from her side of the family see them - so their maternal grandparents and aunty and cousins who they had seen regularly before Elaine left were also not allowed near them.
His bitterness towards Elaine was unrelenting. But at the end of the day it was all a game - he made it clear that what he wanted was for her to come back. Everything he did was to that end. To make her go back to him.
Not that she ever would.
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