I made the best of it

I was running out of money fast but I had £6000 in an account in England that I had to return to England to get and the only way I could get back to England was to drive because of Lula as no flights from Bulgaria accepted dogs. The car wasnt fixed and my dad had said he would lend me the money to pay for the repairs once it was ready. My passport had expired but the British Embassy in Bulgaria had said that they could arrange emergency travel documents for me to get home however I was banned from driving in Bulgaria and so the Embassy was reluctant to issue me with emergency travel documents if I was intending to drive myself home.

I was in contact with my ex boyfriend who kept promising that he would come to Bulgaria and drive me back but he didnt have the money to get there and get us back and so I thought I would be able to borrow it from my family when the car was fixed and I could go.

I had told Valeri that I had to return to the UK once the car was ready to renew my passport and get the money from my account in England that had to be closed in person but he decided that it would be best for him to drive me back to England seeing as I was banned...

I had no choice but to play along with this plan and I even started to consider whether it was an option if it was the only way I could return to the UK.

I even thought that I could get him help there to get a proper diagnosis for what was causing his paranoia and rages. I also knew that I would have protection from the police in the UK if he attacked me again. I even discussed this with him at a time when he was more susceptible to listening and pointed out that in England he could actually go to prison for hitting me and that it was not only against the law there but frowned upon but he insisted that if I didn't provoke him then he wouldn't do it again! He decided though that going to England for a while would be best for us both! I decided that if it came down to being my only option then thats what I would have to do!

In the meantime I just made the best of it. He was nice and actually fun to be with some of the time and those times he was escalating into a rage then I did whatever it took to diffuse it and when it was looking like I couldn't, I made an excuse to leave and stayed elsewhere for the night and when I returned the next day he was always ok again... but I ran out of money before long and sooner than I had hoped as he took my bank card one morning unbeknown to me and withdrew what I had left and gambled with it!