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Lockdown Love

11 Monday May 2020

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You know what I’ve been missing the most during lockdown?

Girl time.

Impromptu after work drinks, weekend brunch, coffee dates, wining, dining and most of all gossip! We’ve tried to keep up some semblance of normality of course, with the odd video call here and there, but honestly, I’m getting bored of talking to friends about the monotonous day-to-day of London Lockdown.

& that’s when I was introduced to a totally inclusive forum by one of my friends called Lockdown Love

It’s a forum for bored wives and husbands to discuss all things naughty and nice! There’s all sorts of topics on the forum ranging from advice on how to keep positive and entertained right now, as well as thoughts on married life, affairs and sex! It’s a totally inclusive community and I’ve really been enjoying commenting on all the interesting daily subjects!

What a great idea to kill some time and talk to some interesting characters. It’s all run by the website IllicitEncounters.com (a dating site for married people!)

Let me know if you like it, maybe chat to you there? 😉

 

 

 

Stalkerish Tendencies

14 Saturday May 2016

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Over half of us are pretty stalkery…stalker… stalkerish? Are these real words?

In any case, over half of us have stalked our first love on social media, according to the married-dating website, IllicitEncounters.com

Yes, 64% of us have gone to the effort of keeping tabs on our previous lover online, while 99% of us have fallen in love at least once by the time we’re 40.

“Anyone’s first love will have a profound effect on their lives,” said the site’s spokesperson.

“With so many of us on social media, it is far easier to secretly track how they are getting on and it is not surprising that most people have done this.”

How Social Media Has Influenced the Modern Relationship

08 Friday Apr 2016

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“My friend is in her marriage having the time of her life, and I’m just angrily elucidating my thoughts on an internet blog.”

At least that’s how I’m made to feel by the almost overwhelming combination of Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram… the list seems infinite.

But does it really even matter? Well, sort of.

I think that there’s a little bit of the ‘keeping up with the Jones’ syndrome in all of us, and that’s ok.  It’s easy to take solace from someone else’s failure; it means you’re not alone; it justifies your misdemeanors, your missteps, your failure to achieve whatever it is that you set out to achieve when you were young(er).

Cowardly? Maybe. Comforting? Most certainly.

But it’s getting harder and harder, year on year. Expectations of relationships have changed in the last, say, 10 years or so.

Accessing the aforementioned social media channels floods me with images. Look at the happy people; they’re always smiling, always socialising, getting married, raising children – it takes a level of mental fortitude that’s beyond most of us to be able to avoid making comparisons and avoid being overcome by feelings of inadequacy.

We’re all stuck in a massive, bottomless echo chamber, where we’re told what happiness looks like. The result? We feel that our own marriage isn’t where it should be, so, naturally, we’re inclined to act upon that.

It takes the better part of, I don’t know, 5 minutes (?) to set up a profile on a dating site, and away you go. And given the aforementioned, y’know, ‘my life’s terrible while all my friends are thriving’ thing, I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t given it any thought…

Red Tuesday Is Here

09 Tuesday Feb 2016

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Brace yourself. Ok, good? Alright. Red Tuesday is here… I wasn’t sure what it was either.

The day where the sun is at its brightest? A new bank holiday? Another vicious Game of Thrones wedding?

Nope, none of the above (I really could have done with another bank holiday).

Apparently it’s the most popular day of the year to get dumped, just a few days before Valentine’s Day. Fancy that, eh?

*Braces self*

Open Relationships – Do They Work?

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

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You’re texting your significant other to let them know you’re having sex, but it’s with another person.

Meet Tony & Debbie, the couple who have been in an open relationship for over 15 years. They’re like any ordinary couple, except they don’t believe in monogamy.

In fact, they’re more than happy to meet and sleep with other people, so much so that they claim it’s improved their relationship.

‘It’s not that I don’t love Debbie,” Tony says “we have just found that it does improve our relationship – it makes you much more open with each other.”

What does it say for monogamy? Maybe that there’s a slow but steady shift away from what the general idea of a modern relationship is.

Don’t knock it till you try it, I guess.

Pet Owners are the Most Faithful

23 Friday Jan 2015

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I’ve always had this notion that you shouldn’t really trust someone who doesn’t like animals. I mean WHO doesn’t like animals? Being the proud owner of a gorgeous British Shorthair moggie, I simply do not understand that you don’t like cats; or dogs for that matter.

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New research by married dating site IllicitEncounters.com revealed only 18.4% out of 1000 people surveyed were dog owners. 816 of the 1000 surveyed did not have any pets at all.

Spokesperson for Illicit Encounters Claire Page says “There are many different reasons people have affairs, some people do it for companionship. Others do it because their partner travels often and they feel lonely, or because they think their partner is also having an affair so they feel it’s only fair. People want to feel adored, loved, important, valued, treasured, listened to, thrilled, or in control. An affair is not as black and white as some people think. That’s a prejudice and naĂŻve way to look at it. What’s very interesting is the statistic from our latest survey – the fact that dog owners are the smallest group of people to stray says a lot. It reflects the temper of a dog – loyalty, protectiveness, friendship and affection are all things we associate with canines and people who are faithful.

Claire Page concedes ‘“That’s not to say that every person who owns a dog won’t have an affair. One of our members is a multimillionaire man who breeds greyhounds. Another one of our clients is a top designer who is having affairs with three different men and owns two Pomeranians.”

Of the 184 dog owners surveyed, the top five breeds were-

Doberman

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Mutt/Mixed Breed

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Shih Tzu

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Bull Terrier

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French Bulldog

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