I Was Targeted By A Flasher. My Boyfriend Helped Me Feel Safe, Until I Learned His Secret

The author (right) with her friend and running partner Holly Wheeler in January 2022.

I called my boyfriend and told him what had happened. I didn’t tell him in person because we lived 1,000 miles apart and were rarely in the same room.

The incident had involved a man riding his bike with his pants pulled down around his ass, hissing at me, “You want some of this?”

It was quite a feat of balance, I thought in the split second before I realised he was a threat, stalking me in...