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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.” […]
Helen from Hertfordshire didn’t sleep the night she and James fell out. They’d been seeing each other for nearly six months — coffees, lunches, the odd hotel afternoon. It had felt easy. Then one Thursday he messaged saying he didn’t want to be the one always rearranging his diary, she replied something sharp, and he […]
David is 53, lives near Reading, and runs a small logistics business with thirty-two employees. He’s been married twenty-six years to a woman he describes, without irony, as “genuinely my best friend.” She knows about his stress and his back pain and his complicated relationship with his late father. She makes him tea the way […]
Some people seem to glide through married dating. Not in a smug way — they’re not pulling off some elaborate double life. It’s quieter than that. Their phone stays calm. Their week feels steadier, not more chaotic. The affairs themselves tend to last longer and feel kinder, on both sides. After more than twenty years […]
For years, the public conversation around infidelity was framed almost entirely as a male issue. Cheating husbands. Wandering eyes. Dad-on-the-business-trip clichés that fed a thousand BBC dramas. But anyone who actually works in this space — and Illicit Encounters has been around for over twenty years now — knows the picture is rather different. About […]
People assume the same thing about married daters. They picture someone smug, restless, hungry — somebody who’s already got everything and wants more anyway. The greedy spouse. The one who couldn’t be content if their life depended on it. It’s a clean little story. It gets shared in newspaper comment sections and around dinner tables, […]