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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Being intimate while kids are downstairs

102 replies

LuckyAmberShark · 25/01/2026 18:42

Hi everyone!

DH came upstairs today while I was getting dressed and tried to initiate sex while our two boys were downstairs. Both are kids are neurodiverse, our 8yo has complex needs (attends a specialist school etc) and our 4yo
is on the pathway for autism/adhd/hyperactivity.

DH said they were happy and settled on their tablets and that we had some time. And that it was exciting with the threat of being caught. I felt uncomfortable with this, and told him I couldn’t relax and enjoy it so I declined. DH has been off with me all day since and is sulking and grunting when I talk to him.

AIBU? Or prudish? It just doesn’t feel right to me. If they were in bed asleep then great! But they could have hurt themselves? Or escaped out the front door?

OP posts:
ElizaJ74 · 27/01/2026 23:08

You felt uncomfortable and declined.
Enough said IMO
Let him sulk. His needs do not supersede your comfort

Mumofboys2122 · 27/01/2026 23:11

My husband often seems to think the kids being awake and downstairs, whilst I am trying to get ready, is a good time. I have told him being able to hear the two children, that came out of my vagina, playing downstairs, does not make me feel in the mood and he gives me the ick when he suggests it at these times.
He has never said anything referring to getting caught - that is really weird and I think he needs a pretty serious conversation about how that is wrong and also disgusting.
He also doesn't silk about it.

hollytheheroic · 27/01/2026 23:12

Every day on here I read about another one of these awful men. They walk among us!

PinterandPirandello · 27/01/2026 23:15

That’s so weird of him to say that.

Tink3rbell30 · 27/01/2026 23:16

I'm with you. How could you possibly get into the mood in that situation?

ReyRey12 · 27/01/2026 23:38

I'd be fine with a quickie if the kids were happily occupied. However being excited that your children might walk in is creepy af. Sulking afterwards makes me as dry as the Sahara.

HoneyOats · 27/01/2026 23:54

I don’t see an issue if the kids are occupied but him saying about them walking in is just weird

Fends · 28/01/2026 00:32

Why are these posts allowed?

Have none of you noticed that the fucking 3 random capitalised word username generator is the OP, who never returns because it’s AI trying to “learn” from your responses?!

Fucking sick of it. Stop replying to AI generated questions ffs 🤦🏽‍♀️

Fends · 28/01/2026 00:34

hollytheheroic · 27/01/2026 23:12

Every day on here I read about another one of these awful men. They walk among us!

That may be the case. This “man” is an AI generated imaginary figure though

PixieTales · 28/01/2026 00:37

Absolutely disgusting.

The thrill of being caught having sex by your own kids is actually repulsive. 🤢

Zoec1975 · 28/01/2026 08:17

SaltySpitoon · 27/01/2026 19:19

I think posters are more grossed out by the idea that OPs husband is aroused at the thought of their young children catching them having sex. Surely you can see/understand how gross that is?

Obviously they can’t 🤢unfortunately what is not the norm for most of us,is the norm for others 🙄

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 28/01/2026 08:41

Please, please, please be a troll.

I don’t want to think that this is true. 😫

If it is, your husband is a cunt, and i would lose all respect for him.

Ariel896 · 28/01/2026 09:30

Fends · 28/01/2026 00:32

Why are these posts allowed?

Have none of you noticed that the fucking 3 random capitalised word username generator is the OP, who never returns because it’s AI trying to “learn” from your responses?!

Fucking sick of it. Stop replying to AI generated questions ffs 🤦🏽‍♀️

Now you’ve said this I’ve noticed SO many posts with the 3 word username and the spacing in the post and responses!!!? Creepy!

GoldDuster · 28/01/2026 09:35

And that it was exciting with the threat of being caught.

This, and the sulking and grunting because you weren't comfortable with the likelihood of being walked in on by having sex by your young children is a massive no no.

Purplecatshopaholic · 28/01/2026 09:38

Ooft. Sulking over sex is such a turn off. You can say no for any reason ffs. He needs to grow up.

Fends · 28/01/2026 10:54

Ariel896 · 28/01/2026 09:30

Now you’ve said this I’ve noticed SO many posts with the 3 word username and the spacing in the post and responses!!!? Creepy!

AI has to learn from somewhere and apparently it’s fine that they use MN to do it

cadburyegg · 28/01/2026 11:07

Ugh that is absolutely grim

FerriswheelsKissesandLilacs · 28/01/2026 11:40

Getting caught...by children? So effectively the children are part of his sexual fantasy? That's really not right at all.

Mischance · 28/01/2026 11:43

And that it was exciting with the threat of being caught. - I would be very worried indeed about this. Especially when applied to one's own children that is very bizarre indeed.

Bumble2016 · 28/01/2026 11:57

The threat of being caught...by vulnerable children.

Yuck. That's disgusting.

ImogenBrocklehurst · 28/01/2026 17:42

Caught by children? Grim. Sulking also a turn off.

Thisisitnowdone · 29/01/2026 21:10

LuckyAmberShark · 25/01/2026 18:42

Hi everyone!

DH came upstairs today while I was getting dressed and tried to initiate sex while our two boys were downstairs. Both are kids are neurodiverse, our 8yo has complex needs (attends a specialist school etc) and our 4yo
is on the pathway for autism/adhd/hyperactivity.

DH said they were happy and settled on their tablets and that we had some time. And that it was exciting with the threat of being caught. I felt uncomfortable with this, and told him I couldn’t relax and enjoy it so I declined. DH has been off with me all day since and is sulking and grunting when I talk to him.

AIBU? Or prudish? It just doesn’t feel right to me. If they were in bed asleep then great! But they could have hurt themselves? Or escaped out the front door?

I’m sorry ? “The thrill of being caught” … by your young children ?

Thats vile .

firstofallimadelight · 30/01/2026 07:03

He finds it a turn in that the kids might walk in any moment? That’s disgusting. Also sulking/grunting is very childish. I’d ignore him.

ChimpanzeeThatMonkeyNews · 30/01/2026 07:05

And, OP, you’re BU for using the word ‘intimate’.
It’s so ridiculously coy. 🤢

PardonThePoison · 31/01/2026 22:43

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