Terraced housing and sex

[redfacedandtherest]

Anyone willing to share whether they can hear their neighbours having sex? I have namechanged for this for obvious reasons but I have been on mumsnet for many years!

DH and I have a pretty decent sex life, and I'm not going to lie and say that when we are at home alone I don't hold back. I mean, I start off thinking, 'I hope the neighbours don't hear us', but when the going gets good I have issues not vocalising it .

My main fear is that we live in a terraced house, it's an old one so we hear occasional noise from the kids next door but mainly nothing. Our bedrooms don't back onto each other which was a deliberate choice.

Do I owe them a bottle of wine, and need to wear a paper bag over my head when I go outside?!

Yep. And honestly, it's pretty annoying. On one hand we just laugh at her (in particular), as it's extremely performative. But on the other we get irritated at the fact that we are considerate and don't make too much notice as a) it's selfish when people are trying to sleep and b) surely you don't want people to hear you (??), but they're not. They're quite a rowdy couple with no children, but we're also a young married couple without children (right now) and it's not hard to have a bit of respect and consideration. My husband and I have a very, very good... relationship... and I've never deemed it necessary to shriek and scream. Not looking forward to having young children in the house with the likes of those two next door. Mind you, we own and they rent, so hopefully they'll leave at some point.