I know a woman who's been involved in an abusive relationship for years because she didn't see nowhere else to turn. They makes you feel like you're so low that you can't do anything. It's self-esteem. I know she thought that she was worthless, and she didn't think that she could do anything for herself. But since the moratorium she got one college course done and passed with honours, and now she's going for another one. So you know, a lot of those women, you've just got to build them back up, because they were down so low they thinks that there's nothing else for them. I think some even thinks they deserves it.

There's not a lot of people around here to talk to about anything like that. We got the Shantymen here - that's like a counselling service. But if there was someone in an abusive relationship and they wanted to get out, where are they going to go? There's no transition homes here, the closest one is in Gander. And it's not everyone who's going to pack everything up and go to Gander. There's a big step just to walk out through the door, but when you gotta walk out through the door and there's nowhere to go, what do you do?

I went to a conference in Stephenville in October. They got a women's council down there that's been going for ten years. So now we're going to see if we can get some kind of women's council or steering committee and see what we can get going in this area.