After 25 years of financial, physical and verbal abuse, Lucy joins anti-domestic abuse groups in urging women to focus on their financial independence and security.
"I would say [to Troy], 'Why don't we go to the bank and talk to them about what our borrowing potential could be', or 'Let's get a joint bank account and start putting savings in there together'," she said.
"There was just week after week of him saying he hadn't been paid, or he'd lost his wallet or someone had stolen his key card," she said.Lucy also did Troy's tax return for years but didn't realise he'd been lying to her about his income until the tax office introduced a system that automatically pre-filled earnings.
Troy didn't know how to do tax returns and was caught out when the ATO automated some of its systems. It wasn't until Lucy told a friend that Troy was not giving her the agreed portion of his income for expenses that she realised the extent of his abuse. One night when Lucy and her young daughter were out together, the little girl saw nude photographs of her father appear on her tablet computer.
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