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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How in the hell do your kids know the specifics of your sex life?  Perhaps they notice if you are not affectionate, but they do not know what goes in your bedroom -- I hope.

And I hope you are not confusing affection and sex.  Perhaps that is part of your problem.[/quote]

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I’m sure I’m not the only person on these boards who parents overshared the details of their marriage with their teen kids or even preteen kids - there wouldn’t be so many books, many bestselling, on the issues of dysfunctional parenting including concepts like emotional incest and parentification, where children are made a de facto therapist or parent of their own parent. Of course this type of parenting is more likely to occur in the context of a dysfunctional or struggling marriage.

So yeah, lots of kids know whether or not their parents are having sex - and not just the billions of kids who share a room with their parents across the globe.

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My parents did their best to keep quiet behind closed doors but I wasn’t blind to what was going on but it was pretty bizarre to realize my parents were having sex at around age 50. They were old people! But now I realize how it was part of their wonderful and healthy relationship. They are both 70 now and still very youthful and in good health so I expect that sex could well be ongoing. [/quote]

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