intruder....maybe?

The only thing she needs to carry for that situation is a cell phone.

"Hello police , I believe my home may have been broken into, could you please send a car?"

My wife calls it "Preggo Brain" - not sure what happens to them when they get pregnant - she may have forgotten to lock the door - I am glad everything was ok.
As a side story - my wife "drank" an entire pot of decaf coffee today - well, she poured 4 cups within 1 hour... and forgot where all of them were... shhh - don't tell her I told you.

My wife does not want to carry a gun, and I am not going to force it on her. Mace / pepper spray on the other hand, better than nothing and it could give her the few seconds to get away. I have a dog too, they can tell you more in two seconds than you can see in five minutes.

+1 for the dog

-1 for not getting back in her vehicle with the kids and calling police or someone you trust nearby

+1 for training your family on what to do.

I was on the phone long distance with my girlfriend when she said she was walking up to her front door and it was kicked in. I firmly told her to get out and go to the parking lot. She went in anyway and started getting frantic and thought I was telling her to hang up. She hung up on me mid-sentence. I freaked out because I was helpless 330 miles away.

Well she never saw the intruder. I later told her that she should NOT have entered. The intruder left through the back door and didn't take anything. Because she probably walked in on him. scary stuff.

Beats listening to your Spouse describe a tornado tearing up the place with a near miss and 1400 miles away unable to do anything but watch the cheery weather man on TV talk about the outbreak as if it was the best thing since sliced bread.

Almost told dispatch that they need to send someone to deliver load while I fly home. Fortunatley I was home on the second day to see for myself.

My spouse gets tired these days so I take on alot of the routine home defense type stuff. Constantly working on the stuff in her presence a few moments each day doing this and that... it helps to draw and keep her interest stoked.

But I aint gonna pull a drill on that marine during naptime, no sir. Not if I want to stay alive.

Yikes! Nothing makes me crazier than have to hear about things after the fact. Glad everyone's ok...

I've heard it called "momnesia".. she knows better now.
My ex once called me while we were still together and told me she had been followed home. This was before cellphones. I worked in the next county. The other car followed her to our street, then left the area. We were in the only house on the street, so I believed the follower was truly interested in her for whatever reason, though nothing came of it.
Make sure yours knows more about that type of situation also than my ex did. My current, though not ready to train with a firearm, does know more about situational awareness than my ex did.

My spouse comes up with a hell of a SA type tidbit now and again, makes me look like the blind one in the home. Very useful for following up little tidbits that happens now and again.

But since we left the hills, those back road chases just dont work out that way anymore, no need to worry about that silly stuff no more.

One time my wife (GF at the time) was talking to me on her cellphone as she drove up to her house when there was nobody home but her and said, "why is he following me, what is going on? who is that?"

I am screaming at her over the phone that whatever she does do not get out of the car or hang up. As I repeat the words to her again "don't hang up" I hear a "click!" and the phone hung up!

I was driving home and was about 10 miles away and I pulled a U turn and floored it back to her house.

It turns out a cop had come to their house to say something about their dog being too loud or something. She had hung up the phone and also opened her car door for the officer. I sternly instructed her never to do that again. This all happened at about 11pm. She should have kept me on the phone and waited for a second officer to arrive or called 911 to make sure of what was going on. Ugh...scared me to death!

~Norinco

We (I) call it "Preg-tarded", and often get in trouble the use of that term.

Yesterday our house alarm was set off by something... ??? She let me know that she had canceled the alarm with the alarm company (over the phone) and was on her way home to be sure everything was okay.

Mind you, there have been 30 to 32 robberies in a 4 block area in the last 3 months. Yes we are little on edge.

Well to make a long story short. In spite of me insisting that she call and wait for the police to check the house. She refused and insisted that she would return home to see if it was a false alarm. :banghead: I called the police for her, but because I was not the alarm company they would not respond to my call.

It lucky it turned out that no one was there and there was no forced entry. Yes a plan is needed just need to find the right time to talk about the plan, talking about it yesterday was non productive.

And the kicker.... she is not blond.

Hold up a sec, Noebb. You said, "because I was not the alarm company they would not respond to my call." The police are supposed to respond to emergency calls if your the alarm company or an american citizen. There's something quite wrong with your police if they won't respond, but I guess the high crime rate in your area is proof of that.