Leaving a Controlling Relationship

They never had to break in. The watching was built while you still trusted them.

Whether you're quietly planning to leave or you already know you're being followed, we find and close what's tracking you — the apps, the accounts, the trackers, the shared home — and we do it on your timeline, planned around your safety, in person.

In person only · No remote access · No cloud · No logs · No app

If you are in immediate danger, call the police on 100. For confidential 24/7 support in many languages, the No to Violence helpline is *6724 — or reach them through their Butterfly Button, a discreet contact that leaves no trace on your device.

What's actually at risk

It isn't paranoia. It's access that was built into the relationship.

With a controlling partner the watching is rarely a single break-in. It's a phone they set up, a location you shared once, an account that was always "ours" — assembled over years of trust, and waiting for the day you decide to go.

  • The device that watches you — a phone or laptop they configured, an app quietly installed to read your messages and see your screen, your camera, your location; sometimes the very device that was a gift.
  • The trackers you can't see — location sharing switched on long ago and never turned off, Find My, a tag slipped into the car or the lining of a bag, the car's own tracking app sitting on their phone.
  • The accounts and the home you still share — an Apple ID or Google account they can open, password-reset codes that arrive on their number, the cameras and locks and speakers in the home, the family phone plan that lists every call and location, the children's devices that quietly report back.

None of it looks like an attack. That's exactly what makes it dangerous — and why the moment you change it is the moment that needs the most care.

How it actually happens

The tag she never packed

She had done everything right. A new bag, a route she'd never taken, a friend's address she'd told no one about. He met her at the door of it anyway — calm, smiling, holding the evidence that he always knew. It took a long time to find the small disc tucked into the spare-wheel well of the car they'd once shared, reporting her position every few minutes to an app he'd never deleted. She had changed her phone, her passwords, her locks. She had not thought about the car.

The account that was always "ours"

The Apple ID had been set up together, in the good years, on his email — simpler that way, when everything was shared. Years later she was the one leaving, and every time she reset a password to lock him out, the confirmation code arrived quietly on a phone in his pocket. He read the messages to her lawyer. He saw the calendar entry for the viewing of the new flat. She believed she was closing doors; each one she touched told him exactly where she was going next.

What we do

We close it on your timeline — planned around your safety, never against the clock.

We begin where it's safe: a clean device and clean accounts they don't know about and can't reach, so you have private ground to stand on before anything changes. Then we map every device, account, tracker, and shared system tied to you and to them — and where the watching is live right now.

We close it in the order that keeps you safest, timed to your departure and coordinated with your lawyer — because with a controlling partner, the wrong step at the wrong moment is the dangerous one. Nothing is forced. Every step is yours.

You leave with a secure channel for you and your lawyer, and a signed Certificate of Hardening for your file — a record of what was found and closed, and when.

Working with a family or domestic-abuse lawyer? The Certificate documents your security posture for a protective order or proceedings. How we work with attorneys →

Protection

Most individuals are covered by Personal Shield (₪14,000); where a shared home network, vehicles, children's devices, and a wider household are involved, higher tiers apply. A Threat Assessment is ₪3,500, credited in full toward any protection tier within 14 days — and it begins, like everything here, on a safe device.

See the four protection tiers →

Questions
Will they know?

This is the most important question, and the honest answer is: sometimes cutting access suddenly is exactly what alerts a controlling partner — and the time around leaving is when risk is highest. So we never rush a step that exposes you. We build your safe ground first and close the watching in the order, and at the moment, that keeps you safest. You are never tipped into danger to tick a box.

I think there's spyware on my phone — can you check it now?

Not on that phone, and not by searching through it: investigating a monitored device can alert whoever installed it. We start you on a safe device, then assess. If there is stalkerware, we close it as part of a plan — not in a panic.

Can you prove they're stalking me, or build my case?

No. The work is defensive — we secure you and close the access. We don't run counter-investigations or gather evidence against another person, though what we close is documented in your Certificate.

Can we do this before I leave, while nothing has changed?

Yes — quietly, before anything changes, is the safest path of all. The earlier we build your private ground, the less there is to use against you.

Is it safe to contact you?

Reach us from a device they have never had access to — a friend's phone, a new number, a library computer. If you are in immediate danger, call the police on 100, or reach No to Violence on *6724 — or via their discreet, trace-free Butterfly Button.