‘There were no warning signs’: what happens when your partner falls into the ‘manosphere’?

Andrew Tate, who was awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, at a tribunal in Bucharest, Romania in March. Photograph: Andreea Alexandru/AP

Samantha thought of her partner as the most progressive man she had ever had a relationship with. Her Swedish boyfriend seemed, to her, more feminist than many British men she had dated.

“I never had to ask him to clear up,” she says. “All our labour was shared. He had done therapy. He was happy to talk about his emotions.”