“I knew this would happen. I just had a feeling when I meet him, but he seemed okay so I just ignored it”.

These were the words I’d heard too many times before.

When Rachel* met Simon* she felt something wasn’t right, but couldn’t put her finger on it.

Everyone else seemed to think he was lovely; so charming and funny, that she squashed her own intuition, assuming not everyone else could be wrong.

It must be her.

Perhaps she was tired or being too quick to judge, he was being very attentive and charming…

Yet here they were, a month later, and her best friend in tears at the way Simon had treated her.

How many times have you found yourself in similar situations?