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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not saying this to sound judgemental but how do you have any intimacy with your husband when you co sleep with children that old?[/quote]
I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound judgemental but is your bed the only place you and DH do it? And is before bed the only time when you do it? I'm so tired right before bedtime that the last thing on my mind is getting busy w/DH. We have two other rooms with beds and they're used frequently, not to mention places in the living room and elsewhere that I won't get into for fear of making you blush.

Spice it up, sister. Move out of the master bedroom and into...anywhere else for a change. [/quote]

Actually, I was wondering about this but not only about sex, which we can and do have in other places. More about other kinds of intimacy-- talking to one another when you turn out the light.  Rolling over and kissing your spouse, maybe getting slightly fresh, first thing in the morning.  Puttering about in the bedroom together when the kids are asleep.   I have to wonder, too-- the morning erection is a pretty common and involuntary thing.  Do you have to arrange everyone so that dad's not near a kid or does it magically go away when you know that the children are there?

And while I wouldn't be all that concerned about children having independence problems, if I were considering this (ours didn't do it so that ship has sailed), I'd be concerned that my husband and I would be the ones with the independence issues-- that we'd be empty nesters early.

Don't get me wrong-- I don't really think that it's a bad thing, though it's extremely alien to me.  Just curious, though, because it seems to take away the parents' special place that is just for them, and I think that it would be very tough. [/quote]

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