Theohazard
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Like many other husbands on this site, I would love for my wife to take an interest in carrying a handgun for protection. She has a passing interest in shooting and I've managed to teach her a little, but at the moment she has no interest in carrying a gun. OK, I can accept that; maybe she'll change her mind someday. But in the meantime I can't even get her to carry pepper spray, and it's driving me crazy.
She's 5' 2", she has no self-defense training, she walks to her car after dark to an off-site underground parking garage in a neighborhood frequented by drug addicts and the like, she's been threatened by patients more than once (she's a surgical resident), and, most importantly, she's a new mother. She has every reason to want to defend herself, yet she seems to have absolutely zero interest in it.
She seemed interested in pepper spray, so I got her one. But it was too big so she never carried it. So I got her a smaller one, and after a few months I discovered she didn't carry that either. So I got her a sleek metal keychain one that she said she'd carry all the time. And I thought she'd been carrying it for the past year or so. But I just found it buried at the back of our junk drawer. I just can't understand it. Why in the world would she have absolutely no interest in protecting herself?
Women are attacked, robbed, and/or sexually assaulted all the time in our city, often right near where she works. And after ten years of being together, I still can't convince her to take even a passing interest in protecting herself. Anyone have any suggestions for me?
She's 5' 2", she has no self-defense training, she walks to her car after dark to an off-site underground parking garage in a neighborhood frequented by drug addicts and the like, she's been threatened by patients more than once (she's a surgical resident), and, most importantly, she's a new mother. She has every reason to want to defend herself, yet she seems to have absolutely zero interest in it.
She seemed interested in pepper spray, so I got her one. But it was too big so she never carried it. So I got her a smaller one, and after a few months I discovered she didn't carry that either. So I got her a sleek metal keychain one that she said she'd carry all the time. And I thought she'd been carrying it for the past year or so. But I just found it buried at the back of our junk drawer. I just can't understand it. Why in the world would she have absolutely no interest in protecting herself?
Women are attacked, robbed, and/or sexually assaulted all the time in our city, often right near where she works. And after ten years of being together, I still can't convince her to take even a passing interest in protecting herself. Anyone have any suggestions for me?