I didn’t have an issue with Rachel taking part in one though. In fact, I knew the right person for her to have the experience with, someone who I could feel confident would look after her. This person was my brother, *Mike. He, like Rachel also was interested in swinging and I knew he had been regularly attending parties and events when he was in his last long-term relationship before Covid-19 hit. DEIDRE SAYS: Meeting up sounds sensible. But offer extra support rather than accuse her. Is the unborn baby’s dad still about? If so, invite him too. How you feel now is part of your grieving and you can get support for that through Cruse Bereavement Care ( cruse.org.uk, 0844 477 9400).

Stop arguing with her and work on having good family times together and I think her talk of you not having a future will die away. Obviously it’s best for your little boy to have two loving parents in a stable home. His generation were brought up to believe personal issues were best kept private and it was probably tied up with painful memories for him. You were part of his fresh, happier, start in life. Through research, my sister and I have discovered his biological parents’ identities. It looks like his dad died and his mum couldn’t afford to keep him.

I’m 45 and my partner is 48. We’ve been together for 12 years and have a five-year-old son together. Since that first evening, Mike and Rachel have been to another two swinger events. Each time it has been different, but they have always been positive.

I posted this on Tumblr. It was written to everyone who’d been following me in the year or so that led up to this life-altering day. At home, we watch New York Minute with the Olsen twins which won 14 Academy Awards, I believe. I try not to look at my phone and the college football games. Liz loves it. It’s kind of entertaining. Wait,Twenty years (and pounds) ago, I was a good athlete and played competitive tennis and soccer. (Lauren met me later and refuses to believe that I’m capable of extending past whatever speed I get up to when I run to the free sample line at Costco.) Since graduating nursing school, Pepper has managed to get herself into an exciting position at a great hospital, but that all comes crashing down when her irresponsible boyfriend talks her into having sex on the job. They get caught.