This is making me really miserable.
We've lived in our house for a year and a half. It's a semi, and our next door neighbours are a lovely, lovely couple, about 10 years older than us, with 2 DDs. They're really friendly and have lived in their house for years and years. There's a real sense of community and our neighbours are involved with everything, local church, school etc. They really are lovely.
The trouble is, we can hear them having sex. I could plot their sex life on a chart (it's excellent, by the sound of it, and at least twice a week). We hear her orgasming loudly, and frequently hear them both giggling about it afterwards.
My DP thinks it's really funny, but I am fed up with it. I feel embarrassed when I see them, and I dread Friday and Saturday nights. The noise has woken me up before, and we can hear them when we're downstairs and they're upstairs (like tonight).We have a new baby and a toddler, so we're not exactly quiet ourselves. We did move rooms to avoid hearing them, but now DD2 needs her own room we've had to move back to our original room (the spare room is tiny).
I really don't mind hearing neighbours in general. We hear their kids and their dog and I couldn't care less. But I feel it's an invasion of (their?) privacy to hear them being intimate. It's got to the point where I am desperate to move because it bothers me so much.
I don't listen to music when I'm in bed so it's not like I can drown it out. I also feel like I should be able to relax and read quietly in my own bed without listening to them shagging.
Over the holidays they also had sex whilst their in-laws were staying. So I can only assume they have no clue how loud they are (or don't care?)
I probably sound like a total prude and no doubt I should just laugh it off, but I can't, and I'm just totally fed up with it. I don't know whether I could ever face them again if I wrote them a note, and wouldn't that make them feel awful too?
Comments welcome...