When I first separated from my paranoid sz husband, a friend told me to “move to the Easr Village ( then, a less savory part of the city) and get a big dog.”
I didn’t do that exactly, but a part of me was tempted to go underground. Move to someplace less accessible to him. Harder to find. For my own sanity and safety.
Not saying it’s the same for you. But that was my experience.