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Do you sneak off to have sex with your partner in the middle of the day?

212 replies

SugarMitts · 16/04/2024 16:36

This is a bit of an ongoing discussion between me & DH, he says lots of his friends say they will sneak off upstairs while the kids are engrossed in play or watching a film or whatever to have sex and has tried to persuade me to do it a few times

But I just can not possibly imagine how anyone can get horny hearing kids playing in the other room, the thought alone makes me feel really weird and honestly I think it’s a bit gross!

Do you do this?! How!?! Don’t you need time to switch from Mum to horny person? Isn’t it off putting knowing the kids are up and awake and right there?
Or am I right in thinking this is just one of those things that people joke about but no one actually does?

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SemperIdem · 17/04/2024 15:25

The posters for whom having children is their entire personality are out in full force today 😂

FlowersInAFlowerBed · 17/04/2024 15:39

thinkofnewname · 17/04/2024 15:23

What not have sex for 18 years til they leave home??

Wanting sex with your husband is disgusting? Are you joking?

This reminds me of when some posters were horrified on here that I was going to have sex with my children in the house even if they were asleep 😂 didn't you know you are meant to hire a babysitter! 🫣

aperolspritzbasicbitch · 17/04/2024 16:11

Having children isn't my entire personality - I just have never felt the need to pop off for a shag whilst I've been actively caring for them. That doesn't make me some shrivelled up, pearl clutching shrew.
Personally, I couldn't relax enough to enjoy it anyway.

I say that as someone who has never co-slept, and whose children are asleep by 9:30 at an absolute maximum.

VeryStressedMum · 17/04/2024 16:36

We didn't really need to do that when the kids were little as they went to bed quite early and generally stayed asleep.
The older they get the later they go to sleep and when they are teenagers they don't sleep at all so we would go off to 'do something'
They would also sleep half the day so it wasn't usually a problem.

QuickFetchTheCoffee · 17/04/2024 17:22

Eeew...so disgusting! 😂

Yet I've been married nearly 30 years and now two of the three DC have grown up, left home and are in healthy long term relationships of their own. And none of them as far as we are aware have had to go for years of therapy to recover from the trauma of their disgusting parents having sex in the same house they were in. I mean, dear Lord I've been in only one sexual relationship ever you'd think I'd be the prude!

greengreyblue · 17/04/2024 17:26

Not when they were little but when older and I was peri I was insatiable! The garage ( with a locking door) suddenly needed sorting quite a lot!

NeedToBeStrongStepAway · 17/04/2024 17:30

No. I walked in on my parents once where they'd snuck off.. Its something ill never get out my memory 35 years later 😳

frecklejuice · 17/04/2024 17:34

Yep lock on the door and tv on, if they ask which they generally don't we tell them we are watching tv! Kids are 15 and 10. It's not every week or even every month but we do do it when we feel like it.

greengreyblue · 17/04/2024 17:36

I have two friends( both in their 50s now) whose parents went off for a couple hours and they were not to disturb. One was Sunday afternoon in their bedroom and the other used to take a bath together. They were teens and just thought it was their private time, healthy not seedy.

BebyDuc · 17/04/2024 17:38

No. Never.

I've never liked daytime sex.
Especially with kids in the house.

WithACatLikeTread · 17/04/2024 19:43

RomeoRivers · 16/04/2024 21:27

It was head, and because of the spontaneity, it actually was quite sexy. Weird to be so judgemental over something so normal.

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To be honest leaving too young children unsupervised in highchair is more what I would judge.

Maddie212 · 17/04/2024 21:07

SemperIdem · 17/04/2024 15:25

The posters for whom having children is their entire personality are out in full force today 😂

Does that mean that having sex with children running around the house is other people's personality?

Some of you lack imagination seriously, if you think this is the only way to have good sex - or indeed that a silent quickie with children around is good sex.

Feebs450 · 17/04/2024 21:25

All the holier than thou's on here. No wonder there's so many sexless marriages threads. Jesus! How boring!

Why does not having sex when your dc are awake and nearby = 'sexless marriage' in your mind?

I'm married with dc. We have plenty of sex...twice today in fact. Never felt the need or the desire to do it to the background noise of dc awake or paw patrol or whatever.

And I agree with a couple of other posters...the oh-so-daring-and-exciting story of strapping your kids into highchairs just before dinner then nipping to the next room to give your dh a blowjob - 🤢. Absolutely vile imo.

BirtyDird · 17/04/2024 22:22

Noooo, there aren't people who are seriously strapping thier child into a highchair to go and sneak off, surely?🙄

I see no problem with going upstairs and locking your bedroom when the kids are a bit older and can keep themself entertained for a short period, but strapping a young kid into a highchair whilst you fancy a quick shag is fucking wrong.

SemperIdem · 17/04/2024 23:49

Feebs450 · 17/04/2024 21:25

All the holier than thou's on here. No wonder there's so many sexless marriages threads. Jesus! How boring!

Why does not having sex when your dc are awake and nearby = 'sexless marriage' in your mind?

I'm married with dc. We have plenty of sex...twice today in fact. Never felt the need or the desire to do it to the background noise of dc awake or paw patrol or whatever.

And I agree with a couple of other posters...the oh-so-daring-and-exciting story of strapping your kids into highchairs just before dinner then nipping to the next room to give your dh a blowjob - 🤢. Absolutely vile imo.

I thought that was a bit weird, in all honesty.

As much as I have snuck away on occasion, it wasn’t when my child was so little they required being strapped in to prevent them following me.

BarbsAllotment · 18/04/2024 09:26

'Don't is the answer to your question.

If there is the chance a child or teen could see hear or figure out what you're doing.

Can't you control yourself.

You need sex so badly that you can be turned on when your kids are downstairs or next door?

Are you 15?? It's disgusting. 🤢'

@lul1

Are you taking the piss?
Sex is a very normal part of a relationship. It's not about 'controlling yourself' it's about adapting in certain situations. Why should the answer be 'don't have sex?'

I don't believe for a second that you've never had sex with your children in the house. What a load of shit 😂😂😂

BarbsAllotment · 18/04/2024 09:27

@lul1

Can you explain please why having sex in the same building as your asleep or preoccupied children, is so disgusting and bad?

RomeoRivers · 18/04/2024 09:40

WithACatLikeTread · 17/04/2024 19:43

To be honest leaving too young children unsupervised in highchair is more what I would judge.

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Ok well I know my children were safe, so judge away 👍

November2024Mummy · 18/04/2024 10:16

BarbsAllotment · 18/04/2024 09:27

@lul1

Can you explain please why having sex in the same building as your asleep or preoccupied children, is so disgusting and bad?

From the OP 'sneaking off to have sex in the middle of the day'

You're not going to find a single person who thinks that you can't have sex even when children are sleeping, that's such a ludicrous exaggeration.

BirtyDird · 18/04/2024 10:34

RomeoRivers · 18/04/2024 09:40

Ok well I know my children were safe, so judge away 👍

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🤮🤮🤮

lotsofpeoplenametheirswords · 18/04/2024 10:39

'Don't is the answer to your question.

If there is the chance a child or teen could see hear or figure out what you're doing.

Can't you control yourself.

You need sex so badly that you can be turned on when your kids are downstairs or next door?

Are you 15?? It's disgusting. 🤢'

How do people have more than one child if having sex with children in the house is so disgusting?!

freespirit333 · 18/04/2024 10:52

This thread 😂so funny.

Can’t say I have ever or would ever do this, but of course DH and I have sex with DC in the house, they’re just always asleep in bed! When DC1 was little and no siblings, probably while he was napping in the middle of the day too.

Like a lot of PP though I find the thought of an awake child nearby a massive turn off (I worry about posters who don’t to be honest) and my DC would never occupy themselves without wanting to know where we are anyway. We never even watch TV in peace during the day, do other people actually do that? Never mind sex, do parents with primary aged kids actually manage to watch TV, read etc without having to entertain/keep a child company/break up fights? My DC (one for sure) are ND but they can occupy themselves, with Lego, colouring etc. But not on demand! If I put MAFS on the TV during the day my DC would ask if they could watch something…

Vod · 18/04/2024 11:23

Not while the kids are around and awake, no. Very much not my thing.

On lunchbreaks when they're not at home anyway, absolutely.

Blueskies3 · 18/04/2024 11:39

We have when the kids are playing out on the front street. door locked etc and we can still hear them. I find it much more relaxing when they aren’t at home but that isn’t realistic, as they are always with us.

who are these posters? Is it the golden rule that you have to wait until they are asleep?

WithACatLikeTread · 18/04/2024 12:10

RomeoRivers · 18/04/2024 09:40

Ok well I know my children were safe, so judge away 👍

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You don't though. My two year could be trying to climb out of his chair in the time you were giving your DH a blowjob. We haven't done anything for a month due to our son waking up all the time but I wouldn't do that. They need supervising most of the time. Popping to the toilet quickly and back is fine but not that. I have a high sex drive but even I might turn that down.

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