To never feel comfortable doing this

[Frickinfreezinginthishouse]

I’m in another country and we’re due to go into full lockdown this week. I’m at home alone with my toddler and dog, Dp at work 8-6. Aside from the garden I’ll need you get out with my Dd and dog. Next to our house we have woods leading down to the beach. I love to walk through these when Dp is around but whenever I take just Dd and our dog I feel really uneasy and just want to get back. As we won’t be allowed to drive to place, this is our only place to walk, aside from around busy roads near our home, which is hard with both Dd and our dog, who needs to be off the lead.
Does anyone else walk in deserted places, would you feel uneasy or do you think it’s fairly safe with Dd and our dog?

So OP, how are you feeling about all of this today? I've been thinking about this a lot, as obviously we are all feeling anxious and panicked with a pandemic raging around us. You are in a new country on your own (during the day) with a small child, so feeling hyper vigilant is very normal. I have a few suggestions:

1. can you DH wfh more and come for a walk with you?
2. is there another path further along that also leads down to the beach
3. can you find out if others are going to the beach and ask to tag along (a safe distance)

Try not to blow this out of proportion, it's fine not to go, but it would be good if you can. Good luck!

Hi all
Thanks so much for all the advice.
So I think we have a couple of days left until the full lockdown, I’ll drive with them to the nearby lake this morning, where there are lots of people and I’m hoping the upcoming restrictions allow these other places to stay open and for people to be able to drive there, in March we weren’t even allowed to drive to places.
If we’re not allowed, I’m hoping as a previous poster said, there may be lots more people around due to lockdown and ill also probably stay near the roadside (open part) during the week and into the woods itself only at weekends, really not feeling that comfortable with it, even though I’ve tried a few times, there’s no point if I hate it and am feeling nervous and rushing us along.

I’m being ‘oppositional’ because you appear to be encouraging the OP in baseless fears which are unnecessarily restricting her quality of life, particularly during lockdown where she either stays in her garden, walks on busy roads (which are likely to be far more dangerous to a young child and a dog) or walks in these woods, next door to her house

Nope. I am recommending a book that gives women confidence.
All you are doing is slagging off other people's suggestions yet at the same time providing nothing helpful to the OP whatsoever. All you are doing is belittle and dismissing people who have found ways to feel more confident and you have not even read the book we are referring too which is the ultimate irony.

You have not even read the book I refer to so your opinion is utterly worthless.

Trust your gut. If you feel uneasy there is a reason why.

I wasn't too impressed with the Gift of Fear as a book. His examples were a little contrived and specific. Pat answers.

@Wrenna

Trust your gut. If you feel uneasy there is a reason why.

Yep exactly which is why I loved the book TGOF so much.

It's a hard question to answer as a lot depends on where you are and what the community is like. I walk my two dogs in the dark through fields at 7am every day and never feel unsafe, but I don't like doing it at night. I'm also not in the UK.