I always thought I wouldn’t need to take a refuge space as I have family I could stay with but they are in a different UK country to me and I don’t want to move there permanently. Plus I worry he would know where I am, even though I don’t think he’d do anything, I equally don’t trust how he would behave if I left permanently. Eventually I’d like to set up somewhere in the country I live now. How long do you or can you stay in a refuge for? Is it just like respite before you’re shifted elsewhere? Or do people stay longer term?