Video will play in Play now Don't auto playNever auto playA woman who left her abusive partner after reading the Herald's family violence series We're Better Than This, is now looking forward to her future - a future without fear and violence. She wrote to the Herald in May to say she had decided to leave her violent and psychologically abusive partner. "Please know that you both have been a huge part in this all finally working out.," the woman told the Herald. I'm saying right now that I am better than this," she said at the time. RELATED: 'I will leave him - I'm saying right now I am better than this'It took her until now to free herself from the relationship completely.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 14, 2016 17:03 UTC