To be pissed that Covid has ruined my sex life!

[HoneyIShrunkMyAss]

I WFH part time (prior to Covid) and DH works different days each week. Usually he has a day or two off in the week which is when we would have rampant sex as DC are all at school/work. We’ve been together a very long time and our sex life was pretty shit while the DC were younger but we’d just got back into it really well the year or two before lockdown started.

Our house is very ‘creaky’, walls are thin and DC are normally up after us so nightimes are out unless we do it REALLY quietly and try not to move too much on the bed, which rather takes the fun out of it.

Anyho, oldest DC has been WFH since last March and is ALWAYS at home during school hours so even when the others went back to school/college, she was still here. I’ve tried suggesting she goes for a long walk in her lunch hour but she won’t get the bloody hint.

I was banking on her going back to her office by May as that was what she was told. She’s just said the earliest she’ll be back is September!

AIBU to cry!

Honestly, I feel for daughter working from home maybe she doesn't want to go for a walk in her lunch break, maybe she wants to chill. Don't bring it up, probably hard enough being stuck indoors 24/7 without having to make yourself scarce for your parents to shag 🤮

It was kind of a lighthearted post Barbara.

She would be mortified if I told her to go out so we can have sex so I won’t put her through that despite her having a boyfriend (she goes to his place). I think knowing your olds have been at it while you’ve popped out is pretty weird. She probably won’t be able to look us in the face.

DC are generally all over the house in the evening, upstairs in their bedrooms or downstairs in the family room gaming so it’s not like we can disappear upstairs when no ones up there or sneak one in while they’re all upstairs. Had no idea the soundproofing was so shit before we moved in (new build). You can hear them talking downstairs very clearly from our bedroom through the floor . DH has already nailed the slats to the bed frame so they don’t move but we could probably do with a new mattress which is less bouncy .

We did have a weekend away in a hotel a few months back precisely for this reason but we’d prefer to be in our own house.

Just have to carry on keeping it down. Such a PITA!

Shiny Is her office in London? Maybe mention this thread to your friend so even if she’s not ours, it might do her parents a favour!

Can you tell her the walk is for her own good so she doesn't hear things she can't unhear?!
She might be glad of a walk and make it a long one.

I remember MIL asking why on earth neither of us were answering our phones all afternoon and only just resisting the urge to ask her what on earth she thought we might be up to when we had the house to ourselves.

Op I understand. Mine are in the too young to be honest too old to not know stage and dh and I have been climbing walls. Can't wait to have noisy sex again

Imagine as an adult at your parents home and they tell you they need private time so can you sod off out the house for a while. Unbelievable embarrassment

If she's an adult, just tell her you need some privacy. I moved out when I was 20 but wouldn't have cared if my parents said this to me, providing that it was jokey.

DH's parents used to give me graphic details about their lives, so just don't do that.

Unless you are outside of the UK be pissed off not pissed. (Grumble, grumble bloody Americanisation)

I could've written this!!!!

A hotel?! You have your own bloody home. That's crazy.

Just put a duvet or two down on the bedroom floor so there's no bed creaking. TV on, and late at night.

Travelodge is your friend here. I stayed in one recently and they don’t ask for the reason why, even though it’s supposed to be for essential reasons. Rooms are super cheap at the moment too. And if you pay an extra tenner you can check in early at 12pm

Buy a campervan!

Put a box set on in some room of your choice. Lock or block the door. Tell them all you’re really into the boxset and not to disturb you for the length of the episode. Maybe lounge, wherever. Lock/block the door, turn up the boxset volume and do it.

Maybe it’s you and DH who should be going for a very long walk. Somewhere secluded. Maybe not with the weather like this though. The layers of coats and waterproofs would be a problem.

Or just wait for the premier inn to reopen and pretend you’re having an illicit encounter one afternoon. They do have very comfy beds.

I feel you op. DH and I have wfh for years and once dd started school, our lunch breaks were often our best time to connect, sometimes intimately, sometimes just to have lunch together. She has been doing remote school since March and we haven’t been alone in the house for almost a year at this point.

@ThatchersCold and kill a granny??!!

@BloodyCovid there probably won’t be too many grannies in the hotel room with them looking on, they’ll be good I reckon.

Just start making out on the sofa. She'll soon go for a walk. 😁

What about shower sex? Is that an option?