Pinned Safe-exit planning — the one thing you wish you'd done first

Pinned for safety: if you're still in an unsafe situation, the Safety hub has the quick-exit button and hotlines. For those who've made it out: what's the one practical step that mattered most? (Copies of documents in a friend's car? A separate email account? Cash stashed somewhere?) Your answer might be the answer somebody else needs.

Moderator note: replies in this forum are held to a higher bar — practical, non-judgmental, safety first. If you need immediate help, VictimLinkBC is 1-800-563-0808, free and confidential, any hour.

Counselor speaking carefully — please use the Safety hub linked at the top if you're still in an unsafe situation. The "one thing" I hear most often from clients who made it out: a separate email account on a device he couldn't see. That account became how they reached lawyers, friends, and eventually us.