.......Man hid in the woods for 10 years to escape..wife
`Malcolm Applegate left his “controlling” wife and hid in the woods for years before finally letting friends and family know he was alive after a decade`
`Malcolm Applegate, 62, went to extreme measures to get out of what he describes as a “controlling” relationship.
Applegate left his wife for the woods one day without telling anyone and lived there for five years, staying hidden for a total of 10.
“I camped in thick woodland near Kingston, and made that home for five years while maintaining the gardens at a local community center for the elderly,” says Applegate.`
`Gardening is what started the problems in his marriage. He says his wife didn’t want him working so many hours and would get upset over any time he spent outside of the house.
“The controlling behavior started to get out of hand and she demanded that I cut my hours. After a long time trying to stay in the marriage, I decided to leave for good,” says Applegate.`
“My day-to-day involves working in the shop or driving the vans; I’m not fussy what jobs are given to me as long as I’m working,” says Applegate.
Family and friends had no idea what had happened to him until he finally broke his silence to his sister. “It had been a decade since I’d last seen her, and in that time she had been to all of the Salvation Army hostels in the South trying to find me,” he explains. “I think she assumed I was dead".
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