When I think of my first love, Josh*, I think of his soft hair. Our early-twenties romance played out in a naive, blissful bubble: we’d met through friends after university, and developed a constant closeness that is only really possible in that no-man’s-land between education and the real world. We would text from our temp jobs, debating silly hypotheticals and lounge around at weekends, cooking lavish breakfasts and watching endless TV. I loved to stroke his fine, silky hair when he felt stressed. It’s the only completely straightforward relationship I’ve ever had – he adored me, I adored him, we wanted nothing more than to be together.

But it’s now been years since Josh and I have spoken. As I watched him tick off life’s milestones through the smoothing filter of social media – cohabiting, engagement, wedding, baby – I felt that wistful twinge of loss we all feel about that one ex. The dull stomach-swoop of watching the life you hoped for, play out with someone else. But for me, that twinge runs deeper, because I was the person who introduced him to the woman he would marry.

I didn’t mean to do it. Or I did mean to, but not in a ‘til-death-do-you-part sort of way. She was supposed to be a diversion tactic, a double bluff – here, kill some time with this person while we figure out what we both want. Unfortunately.....

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Globally, the victims of domestic violence are overwhelmingly women, and women tend to experience more severe forms of violence. They are also likelier than men to use intimate partner violence in self-defense . In some countries, domestic violence is often seen as justified, particularly in cases of actual or suspected infidelity on the part of the woman, and is legally permitted.

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