Would you feel safe walking with your dh/dp in the park in the dark?

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So think of a country park/nature reserve type place. Walking at 8.30-9pm when it's dark.

Would you be happy to walk this if with your husband or would you avoid?

I was bought up to avoid isolated areas alone especially after dark.

yes but then I live in an area where nothing ever happens

Yes, in the winter I often walked Ddog in the local country park in the dark (equipped with torch, headtorch, backup torch and an illuminated collar on Ddog).
Strange walking across the hill in the pitch black and then suddenly being confronted with another dog walker, a deer, fox, badger or overflown by an owl. It was very rural but a favourite for walkers who would travel miles (for daylight walks, at night it was just locals there).

Our new home is not quite so rural but is adjacent to open fields and a byway and again, was happy last winter walking Ddog in the dark.
In the current heatwave all dog owners here are walking as late as possible and this week I have been out there by torchlight listening to the owls and spotting bats flitting around.

Yes, and I'd probably feel safe with a female friend too but possibly not on my own.

I walked to and from work across a city centre park including in wintertime early evening darkness and my female boss scolded me and told me to promise never to do it again. I did, but ignored her. It was a nice walk and it was free exercise.

I judged the park was safe - it was reasonably busy at 7pm in January. Maybe not people walking alongside me all the time but certainly people in earshot. It was reasonably busy until about 10pm though I wouldn't have done it then but on an early winter evening in the dark I didn't think a rapist was going to drag me off into the bushes without anyone hearing and coming to my rescue.

My boss lived in a suburb and I thought, but didn't say that I'd be far more concerned about walking home from her lonely station at 8.30pm on a dark winter night when most people were tucked up indoors. By contrast, when I came out of the park I walked down busy streets of restaurants, bars and a big Tesco open to 11pm and staffed with shelf-stackers after trading hours. But I didn't say it because I didn't wish to scare her and didn't have her taste for drama.

You judge the risks, don't you? As I said I work and live in a very busy area but even so on the way home from the station alone and late I choose the main road which is a bus route and well lit rather than shaving a few minutes off by nipping down side roads. That's because a nasty creep gave me a right scare and I had to scream and bash on someone's door. It's never stopped me going out but it has made me take the slightly longer way. Every time I do it I resent it though.

How fucking dare he scare me and limit my horizons? Cunt.

Wasn't really thinking in terms of husband protecting and fighting off baddies.

But realistically you're probably less likely to be attacked or harassed if with someone than alone.

We walk most evenings and wondering whether we should alter our route now the dark might are drawing in.

Then I was thinking actually, we live in a city, there might be more hazards on the main streets than in a pitch black park.

In my younger days I'd walk anywhere without a worry, seem to be scared of my own shadow now.

Happier in woodland that populated areas to be honest, people are the main threat. Having said that though, the reason I would be alone in a country park is because I am walking my very large German Shepherd, so the scariest thing in the forest is probably him.

I look back very fondly on the days I'd walk my large dog at night. Never felt unsafe then.

Realistically speaking though, the question should be would you feel safe to live with a man.
It’s the men women know who assault, kill, rape women, most likely one’s being boyfriends/husbands.

Yeah I know this but I've been with dh for 20 years so it's not a concern.

My biggest worry is a mugging or just a gang harassing us, as I say we live in a city so it's sadly not without incident.

I'd do it with my DH or alone (unless it was a particularly unsafe area).

I regularly walk through a country park on my own but with dogs.

Usually before 9pm. And before 8am.

Lots of other dog walkers. I take a torch.

I do often do it alone here, usually with the dog right enough.

Though you can't get to our house without walking through a roughly one mile shit lighted park or taking a two mile detour. Small town so pretty safe. Apart from the two teens from the same family who cause trouble everywhere.