Contending with insomnia and working in a job and a place you love but for an incredibly unprofessional boss, is not the healthiest situation for anyone to be in. I have a great boss now that makes me laugh, though admittedly I don't think she means to, she's just absolutely mad! But I have had to deal with a boss from hell previously. For the sake of progressing my career and learning enough to start my own business if I ever wanted, I had to put up with some pretty horrific behaviour towards me - bullying, sexual harassment and general all round idiocy actually. Don't think he ever really understood the boundaries between employer and employees and crossed them a little too often. I let it go for a while knowing that I would make good of the situation in the end, but it became too much and I had to put a stop to it. I had to become stronger at dealing with it. I was not going to be indirectly forced to leave before I was ready to - the biggest enjoyment in working for a boss you hate being near is handing your notice in isn't it - he wasn't gonna take that away from me!

I was confident with my knowledge and experience, I know I can do anything if I really want to, I have proven that to myself hundreds of times. I was incredibly low in self-esteem, bullied to the point of believing maybe I was actually a failure. I now just needed to ensure that the knowledge I took with me would be transferable so I got everything I needed (including a fail safe plan for revenge!) and built myself and my boss up for a 'quiet' drink and chat in the pub after work. Any chance to be alone with me he was pretty up for, so I got him to unexpectedly walk straight into my resignation!

I loved and have cherished every moment of that evening in his favourite place in the world! To see a rather (over) grown man cry in public, that the business couldn't go on without me blah blah blah, he then decided to declare his love for me and offer to whisk me away for marriage. WHAT - that's a pathetic plea for help if ever I heard one! He would literally do anything to change my my mind - it was an absolute result. I was now the one with the power, not him and he hated it. That was the moment I had been waiting for, it was the first chance I had since the horrible stalker incident to make my point 100% clear.

I took so much strength from this situation and whilst my soul was stripped bare from bullying, my nerves were on edge and I lost all self confidence, inside I knew I could pick myself up again. I did once before. I have learnt a lot from many of the experiences I have had, one thing that has become certainly very clear is that there is such thing as Karma. What goes around most certainly comes around; he will get what he deserves… it is all beginning to unfold!