How do you stay safe?

6:22 pm Wednesday, 4^th June, 2014

This issue has come up recently while chatting with women friends on here, and I'm interested in what others have to say, too.

As a young woman, I once had a knife pulled on me on a date (luckily I'd arranged for a friend to meet me after my date, and as it happened, he had friends along, so 3 huge guys jumped out of a van at the opportune moment....thank god).

Now all grown up, I've learned to trust and act on my instinct.

My take:

--Trust your gut instinct--always, forever, and without a doubt. If he's pushy while chatting online, I won't even consider meeting.....how much worse will he be in person? If it doesn't feel right at any point from meeting for a drink to anything further, same.

--Tell a friend before going. This isn't always an easy option, as real world friends aren't exactly the ones we want to tell. Still, there are so many women (and men) on here to tell; at least someone knows, even if they live far away.

I like to think I get to know someone fairly well before deciding to meet, but how well do we really know anyone?

What do you do? If and when you choose to meet someone, how do you ensure your safety to the utmost of your ability?

And if things do go slightly or (god forbid) terribly wrong, then what?

Comments

SunShineGirllUK	12:05 am Thursday, 5^th June, 2014 Jeezo MissG glad your ok.x I don't rush into meets and take rather a long time getting to know a person before agreeing to meet but sadly I had a rather close call. Though lucky for me they showed their true scary horrible side just it time for me to pull out of meeting....
Skebbie	1:03 am Thursday, 5^th June, 2014 My advice? Date Skebbie. You know it makes sense :-)
rigger101uk	8:06 am Thursday, 5^th June, 2014 A really important subject. Sadly it isn't confined to those early meetings either - I recall one lady who was on here who had seen a chap a number of times and became what she thought were great buddies. He then got very nasty and as I remember took a lot of money from her. So all the advice is good advice, but even after the initial meetings I think that it pays to remain both vigilant and sceptical. I also recall that a lot of the girls kept each others numbers and would keep each other in the loop about impending adventures, and would follow up with a "its all going OK" text at the point where they felt things were OK. Nasty business though, potentially.
Fetch1	7:48 pm Thursday, 5^th June, 2014 Sensible words,Aphrodite.I shall have to consider changing your name to Minerva, the Goddess of Wisdom ! xxxx
rigger101uk	8:11 pm Thursday, 5^th June, 2014 Oh and it might be a blinding glimpse of the bleeding obvious but verification could be helpful - and gives the potential for asking someone who may have left an entry in a persons guestbook for an idea of what an individual is like. Still not guarantee but it might add at least a degree of confidence. Anyway I sometimes carry a swiss (well Czech) army knife but only to peel oranges and get boyscouts out of horses hooves that sort of thing. Other than that I am nicer than a nice thing and safe as houses.

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