A Rhetorical Question
I wonder what my kids will think when they figure out why their mother and I spend so much time in the bedroom with the door shut. They know that we take showers together but I don’t think they think much about that since they would take baths together when they were younger. If my parents spent any adult time, it was carefully hidden from us. I can’t recall any time growing up when they both “disappeared” for a while. Not in the morning, not in the evening and definitely not on vacation. In fact, when we used to take family vacations, we all slept in one room (with two queen size beds and a roll way). Our vacations are a different story. If we’re not having frequent sex its like it doesn?t even count as being on vacation. We usually stay in town and just enjoy being away from work. If we go anywhere it’s generally just for the day. This past Christmas vacation, we seldom got out of bed before noon. I don’t keep track of such things but I’d venture to say we had sex at least 40 times over the 18 days that we were off. I’m sure that after December 25th, the kids were too busy playing with their Christmas presents to notice, but, the week beforehand probably registered in their subconscious minds. Our time away from the kids is more noticeable during vacation since neither of us has any reason to get up and we are both very relaxed and well rested. Years ago, they would occasionally knock on the door and asked if we were jumping on the bed. (I think they were mad that we got to bounce on the bed but they couldn?t.) Recently, they haven’t noticed or been brave enough to ask any questions. It might be a subject of conversation sometime in the future when they are grown, but, (mercifully) it has not been a topic for their teenage years.
Comment from yondan
Time November 26, 2008 at 8:33 pm
my parents slept in separate rooms all the time. Dad’s room was downstairs and mom’s was upstairs beside the rooms my sister and I had. When we were old enough to finally understand why the stairs squeeked from time to time we 6thought it was sort of nice. It made us realize that even though neiither of us has ever seen any indicaqtion of affection between them that it was there.