Picture this well-dressed woman, a Wall Street executive - a normal day at work.

This woman is going about her day busy with meetings, talking to clients and reading her mail doing what she does every day. But this day, a day that began just like any other wouldn’t be ordinary at all.

You see, she had recently left her abusive husband and was scared to death that he would come to the office to harass her.  She informed building security and a picture of her husband was given to the security guards so that if he did appear he wouldn’t be allowed to enter the building. Well he did show up. He walked right into the building lobby that day and wouldn’t leave until the security guards threatened to call the police.

This woman never called the police during her 20 year marriage because she was so frightened of what he would do to her if she did.

I’m talking about a successful executive - a woman working for a Wall Street financial services firm who had lived in fear for the twenty years of her marriage and had never told anyone what she was going through until she finally left him.

This woman was me. I was one of millions of women who work in companies across the country who silently endure domestic violence and never say a word.

So when you think of the “face” of domestic violence all you need to do it look around you. It happened to me and it can happen to anyone.