Pick Me Up! Special

HOW COULD YOU?

Lugging the weekly shop down the road, I let out a long sigh.

‘Everything OK, love?’ my mum, Diana, 50, asked.

‘Yeah, just tired,’ I replied.

In truth, I was exhausted.

As a mum-of-two, that was natural, but despite having a partner by my side to help, I felt like I was doing it all alone.

I’d first met Daniel Hall, now 25, in school.

Three years older than me, I knew him through friends.

However, in 2016, having both left school, our friendship took a romantic turn.

To begin with, things were great between us.

Daniel was kind, funny and always made me smile.

We had the same group of friends, so we spent a lot of time together, and I couldn’t have been

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