Abused Woman Shares Chilling Texts From Her Husband

#1 Leaving an abusive partner is one of the most difficult choices a victim can make, but for some, telling their story afterward is even harder.

#2 This woman decided to break the silence and share hers, and she’s been met with a viral round of applause.

#3 That's why survivors' stories are so important.

#4 She endured 3 years of the destructive relationship before finding the strength to leave him when he sexually assaulted her.

#5 "I visit my mother one every couple years. I had a huge bruise on my arm from where my husband had bit me, leaving visible teeth marks."

"The bruise was so bad it hung around for almost a month. Long enough for a visit to my mothers and to still be photographed by NCIS when I finally turned him several weeks later."

#6 "Tony was a co-worker."

"I knew when he clocked off because it was when I was clocking on."

#7 "Fella helped me change my tire one time and I was suddenly banging him (apparently.)"

#8 “I stayed the night with a female friend from work. He knew because he “set traps” for me”

The woman says she had to call him at midnight every night when visiting her mother so that he could make sure she wasn't out 'being drunk and doing nefarious things during the evening'.

#9 He would hit her, sexually abuse her, and wait for her outside of work for the duration of her shifts, she says.

When she asked for his permission to go out with two female co-workers for her birthday, her husband punched her in the face and slammed her head onto the floor.

#10 But the Imgur user insists that her marriage didn't start out that way.

In fact, she says her ex-husband was actually 'a kind, loving man' - until she lost weight and got a job.

#11 Suddenly, he presumed she was cheating and suggested that she had only lost 80lbs in a bid to try and woo other men.

But despite the ongoing torment she suffered, the woman said in her post that she only finally 'got the guts' to leave after her husband went on to hurt her pet animals - a dog and a kitten - as well.

#12 She also worked up the strength to report his abuse to the police and to his commanding officers in the Navy.

Who quickly 'put him on restriction' before later sentencing him to eight months in a military prison in Miramar, San Diego.

#13 According to the Home Office:

"An estimated 1.8 million Brits aged 16 to 59 have suffered at the hands of an abusive partner, both physically and emotionally."

#14 Krissy recalled:

"He hit me and sexually assaulted me. He waited outside my work for whole shifts, not telling me if he was carrying the Beretta M9 he had purchased recently."

#15 "While he was at work I packed a bag, my pets, and their food and hid at a coworker's house and called NCIS and the police."

#16 Krissy lived in fear felt by all domestic abuse victims, caught between her husband’s warped sense of ‘love’ and his violent nature.

#17 76 per cent of domestic homicides occur shortly after a woman has left the perpetrator.

#18 Three years later, the woman says that she is 'actually doing great' and has her own home, a decent job and her pets are doing well.

Krissy was able to escape a fate that befalls too many victims, with the help of her family, friends and through legal procedures designed to protect those who have had the courage to leave.

#19 The brave woman finishes her Imgur post saying:

"This isn't really a sob story; I'm really proud of what I've done on my own."

#20 Strangers on the internet are better than keeping it inside for so long.

"I save these text messages to remind myself how far I’ve come, not to cry over."

It has been three years since Krissy saw her ex-husband for the last time, in a courtroom where he pleaded guilty to ‘a handful of misdemeanors and two felonies’.