And I could hear exactly how it would sound. I could write the paragraph myself. Dr Sandell’s response to the complaint was to allege, without evidence, that it had been fabricated by her former spouse.
So I sat in that office and said I had no idea, and then I spent fourteen months not saying it, to anybody, including my own sister.
And the complaint did what it was built to do — not because it was clever, but because I did exactly what he knew I would do, which is to be reasonable about it.
That is what I have had to take. Not that he did it. That he could predict me down to the day.
He has known since 2012 that I will always choose the version of myself that is least embarrassing to defend.
And the six years, which that man used as the weapon and which I am going to set out plainly, because the sentence he said in that corridor has a specific answer.
We were seen at a clinic in Brackwater between 2016 and 2022.
Everybody is tested. That is how it works.
There was no single cause found. Unexplained — which is a real category and which about one in four couples get, and which is, if I am honest, harder than a reason, because there is nothing to treat and nothing to blame.
