When I was a 52 year old mother of 15 and 17 year old boys, my husband of 28 years decided we should separate and moved into our vacation home. I stayed in the marital home with our sons. The boys were nearly adults and had no interest in the traditional every other weekend at dad’s house so they were home with me 24/7.
I immediately set about the process of moving on by joining OKCupid and doing the online dating thing. I rather quickly became passionately involved with an attentive, alcoholic, professional man. Having been starved for sex and affection for the last decade of my marriage, I was very hungry for that sort of attention, and Charlie was ready, willing and able to provide it in spades. He lived nearby in a home he rented with a female housemate. She did not like me which created a hostile environment in his house when I stayed over so I tried to minimize my time at his place. It worked out that we were able to alternate weekends in the vacation home with my husband when he would move to the marital home to spend time with our sons and Charlie and I could spend time together away from his hostile housemate.
Charlie usually left his car at my house for the weekend and would arrive at my house on Sunday night too drunk to drive home after stopping at a restaurant on the way back. It was an uncomfortable decision to let him spend the night in my bed with my sons in…
