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Tips on escaping

Are you considering escaping?

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You are being abused
if your partner:

  • Puts you down verbally

  • Calls you names

  • Shouts or yells at you

  • Ridicules your appearance, beliefs, religion, or race

  • Is jealous and accuses you of having affairs

  • Isolates you from family and friends

  • Tells you how to act and dress

  • Criticizes you constantly

  • Blames you for problems in the relationship

  • Withholds information about your finances

  • ​Forces you into unwanted sexual acts

  • Physically abuses you in any way (hits, punches, slaps, chokes, shoves)

  • Threatens to harm or take the children away

  • Threatens to commit suicide if you leave

  • Opens your mail and/or monitors your phone calls

  • Follows you when you are out of the house

  • Accumulates debt in joint names without your consent

  • Harms or kills family pets

Tips On Leaving

  • Don’t tell your partner you are leaving

  • Take your children with you when you leave and bring favourite items or toys

  • Plan an emergency exit

  • Keep money in a safe place for taxi, and phone cards

  • Make sure you have valuable documents (passports, birth certificates, marriage certificates, immigration papers, OHIP cards, SIN cards, bank books and back cards)

  • Bring documents that prove you have been living at the same address as your partner

  • Bring any prescription medication

  • Try to pen a bank account in your name only or in the name of someone you trust before you leave and save as much money as you can. Arrange to have the bank statements sent to a safe address

  • Keep extra clothing, house and car keys, money, copies or originals of important papers, and significant phone numbers at a safe location. If you can, have an emergency suitcase packed and ready to go.

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