It’s incredible how old stories keep creeping back into our memories. Today we were having New Year’s lunch with my boyfriend Nuno and his family, and his sister in law Cristina remembered that, as a young wife, she had very strong views about men who were abusive and hit their wives. She was laughing as she told us that, back then, when she imagined what she would do if one day her husband hit her, she had decided she would …