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He backed me up against the wall again but I wasn't going to let him intimidate me.

"Seriously, honey, don't provoke me because I'm not in my right mind," he tells me angrily.

- Me neither and rest assured that if you touch me a hair I swear I will make you eat the floor - I said confidently - What do you know? and I want the truth

I see him debating whether to tell me or not, he could come to understand that he came from an upbringing where the man took charge and the woman never found out about the problems, but I had made it quite clear to him that this was no longer the case and that he must learn to update

- I don't know why they attacked me but it started a century ago, first it was with me then after my sister-in-law's family and now you, that's why I put the guards on you - he says resignedly walking away - your turn

We both looked at each other, he had leaned on the other side of the corridor in the middle of the darkness, I could see him daring me to speak.

- a friend