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Picture
this: you're twenty-five years old, and you meet the man of your dreams.
Six weeks later you're living together, within eighteen months you're
married.
A seventeen year-long happy marriage follows, until one day, your
husband gets up in the morning, takes the dog for a walk, brings you
a cup of coffee in bed, then goes for a business meeting and doesn't
come back.
What would you do?
This is the situation Glenis Durkin from Tamworth found herself in
eleven years ago, and she spoke to Stuart George about her experiences.
Letters...
The day after he left, she got a letter telling her that the pair
were bankrupt.
Although he's never been in contact with her, she believes that
her husband Shaun disappeared because of the guilt he felt - she
found bags of letters in the attic that he hadn't told her about.
Hell
Glenis described the first two years without him as hell; she lost
her hair, she lost a lot of weight, but when she saw the distress
it was causing her parents she realised she was at a make or break
point.
Fight or flight? She fought.
She did a business course, got a job, house and mortgage, and started
again.
Tracing
Glenis sought support from many sources during the first few years,
such as the National Missing Persons Helpline and the Salvation
Army.
Glenis
also contacted the Government tracing service, and the National
Insurance Company in her attempts to locate her husband.
However, with just one positive sighting of Shaun, Glenis doesn't
have a lot to work on.
"It's just like he's gone out the back door, and he'll be back
in a minute... but I know that that's not going to happen realistically".
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