A Woman Scorned

A Woman Scorned

- Rachel Tompkins

Working at the local cash and carry, I got chatting to a cashier, Joanna. ‘We should go out for a drink,’ she grinned. Joanna, then 27, lived with her girlfriend 10 minutes away.

It was 2014, and I’d only just started at my new job, so it was great to meet someone so friendly. Joanna was a laugh. I’d been with my partner Ste

Lewis, then 33, since I was 18. But we were going through a rocky patch. I wanted to have fun. ‘Let’s go out,’

Joanna smiled. We grew close. One evening in April 2014, she suggested we go out after work.

Joanna admitted things weren’t going well with her girlfriend.

Ste and I had split by then, too.

That night me and Joanna fell into each other’s arms. I’d never been with a woman before, but it felt right.

I had a son, 3, with Ste, so didn’t go out much, but Joanna gave me a new lease of life.

She took me out for nice dinners, told me that 10

Hounded, threatened and taunted by my ex By Donna Bamber, 30, from Leyland, Lancashire she loved me. I felt the same. But within a few months, she seemed to change.

She started picking arguments, became jealous, didn’t like me seeing friends or talking to them on the phone.

She even made me block Ste’s phone number, so he couldn’t call me.

Unable to predict her moodswings, I did as she said. But by December 2014, I’d had enough. Joanna realised it wasn’t working now, too. There was no furious row – Joanna simply went back to her ex-girlfriend and I moved on with my life.

In time, Ste

She became jealous, didn’t like me seeing friends…and I reunited.