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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Anna Tims

My abusive and aggressive partner left me but O2 insists I meet him in person

A hand holding a smart phone with the O2 account screen.
Trying to take an abusive partner off a family phone account proved traumatising and risky. Photograph: IanDagnall Computing/Alamy

My partner packed up and disappeared with his children while I was out with friends. I was left having to foot all our bills, including rent, which has made me financially stressed.

We had a family plan with O2 which meant family phones were all registered to my account. When my partner left, he stopped paying his share of the monthly phone bill, so I set about trying to remove his, and his children’s, phones from the account. O2 explained he would need to join a conference call with me and O2 to agree the transfer of the numbers in question.

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