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What about online accounts?

Your partner might try to monitor your emails, website visits, online bank accounts, social media, or telephone calls.

If you and your partner share an email account, you should set up your own email account. Use a password your partner cannot figure out and keep your password private. If you have your own email account but your partner knows your password, you should change it.

Stay away from passwords that your partner knows or can figure out. For example, do not use your children’s names, the name of your pet, children’s birthdates, or other words or numbers that your partner knows.

If you are worried that your partner will try to harass you by email, keep your old email address for them to use and use your new email address for everything else. This way, you can also control how often you look at emails from them.

Luke’s Place tells you how to stay safe online or on your phone. See lukesplace.ca/resources/keep-safe-online.

Phone and mail

You might want to change your cell phone number, so your partner cannot call and harass you.

You can have your mail forwarded at any post office or online at canadapost.ca. There is a fee for this service. Make sure to tell Canada Post not to send a notice to the address you share with your partner.

You should also tell your banks, Canada Revenue Agency, and other important services and businesses if you move.

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