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Most married daters are careful with their phone. Face ID, a folder buried three screens deep, notifications switched off on the lock screen, a chat app that hides behind a calculator icon. They’ve thought about all of it. And then they climb into the family estate, plug the phone in out of habit, and hand […]
It started, for Hannah from Sheffield, with a laughing emoji. Not even hers. Her husband’s. She’d picked his phone up off the kitchen counter to check the time, and a message had lit up from a name she didn’t recognise — followed by a string of crying-with-laughter faces and the words “you’re terrible.” Nothing explicit. […]
When Helen from Chester first messaged us, she wrote one sentence and then stopped. The sentence was this: “He moved into the spare room three years ago, and I think we both knew it wasn’t really about the snoring.” Sound familiar? It might. Because the spare-room story is one of the quietest, most British ways […]
Most people picture an affair the same way: dim restaurant, late-night taxi, a hotel bar after work. It’s the cinematic version. Candlelight, lipstick, secrets whispered over a second glass of wine. But the cinematic version isn’t the one most married daters actually live. The members on Illicit Encounters tend to fall into two distinct camps. […]
Janet is 52. She lives near Reading. She and her husband haven’t had sex in just over four years. She knows the exact stretch because she remembers the last time — a Tuesday evening, a takeaway curry, half a bottle of wine, neither of them quite paying attention. She didn’t know it was going to […]
There’s a strange admission that comes up again and again on Illicit Encounters, usually somewhere around the third or fourth coffee. People will say it half-laughing, half-embarrassed, because they don’t quite know what to do with it. “I’m a different person when I’m with him.” Or, “I feel like me again when I see her.” […]