Following your own common sense is essential. Make wise, informed choices and do not act irresponsibly with yourself and your safety. We often overlook, underestimate or forget about this one. Many go wrong here. SIMPLY attempt and make it a priority to make safety important and to remember. Plan, prepare, practice, protect yourself at all costs by not making yourself a victim, target, or vulnerable, by being alone, in isolated places, without recourse of action, bail out (if on a blind date for example). Ensure that you are doing everything in your power, to place yourself in contexts, locations, positions, times where you are surrounded by others, in better escape position, should your circumstance demand it. If you instinctively feel on edge, not at ease with someone for any reason, typically trust your fight/flight response- type instincts. They are very rarely wrong!
Walking, jogging, running, biking by yourself
Taking roads/routes, short-cuts you are unfamiliar with, walking in the park or your dog, by yourself, with no-one knowing where you are, your route, what time left, should be back, rather buddy up than walking or being anyone alone at night.
Do not isolate yourself and become a target of circumstance or oversight.
Try to stick to where other people are, you are not alone, by yourself, in the dark, lonely, unaccompanied. It makes it too simple for your potential attacker.
It sounds really rudimentary, but it is still just common sense. We get so busy with our lives that we often do not even pay attention to the risky situations we put ourselves in unwittingly at times. We are not alert and pro-active when it comes to our own safety and security. This is what makes it so easy for attackers to take advantage of women. Typically weaker, smaller, easier to intimidate, overpower, the women is a good target, whichever way you look at it. You need to change this disadvantage into an advantage. Do the unexpected, fight back, be ready and do not just take what it is throwing at you. To a large extent we also take for granted that we are and will be OK, safe and that nothing like this can happen to us, individually, ever. This is where most women are mistaken gravely. It simply is not true. It is not a question of if, or what if? But when it happens are your ready and do you have a plan, defense, strategy, skill to preserve, protect and escape with your life? You do not want to be yet another sad statistic, ending up facing horrible consequences.
Rather stay in public, well-lit places and if life, schedules or emergencies have you out in unfamiliar, dark, isolated, deserted, high- risk type areas, do not trust anyone, try not to be alone and by yourself, seek out someone else, you feel safe and secure with while not letting your guard down for a second. Public, open spaces are the best places to be when you are alone – it will be harder to attack you there, where it is visible to others, you can see/hear them coming, threats or attackers approaching etc.
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