| | 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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