Tag: affair discretion tips

• He Lives Four Streets Away. Is That Too Close for Comfort?

  Every week we get sent questions by members who’d rather ask a stranger than a friend. This one arrived on Sunday night, which is usually a sign somebody’s been turning it over all weekend. The question “I joined in June and I’ve been messaging someone for about a month. We get on brilliantly — better…

• Everyone Thinks the Football Season Is a Gift to Married Daters. Ask Anyone Who’s Tried It.

  The Premier League is back tonight, and somewhere across Britain a few thousand people have quietly done the same sum. Every Saturday between now and May, he vanishes into the Red Lion at two and doesn’t resurface until the last score’s in. She’s got the away games in the diary before the fixture list is…

• The Gift That Gave It Away: The Unspoken Rules of Presents in an Affair

  Rachel from Nottingham nearly came unstuck over a fountain pen. The man she’d been seeing for eight months had noticed she still wrote her diary longhand, and bought her a beautiful one for her birthday. Thoughtful. Romantic. And completely impossible to explain, because her husband knew perfectly well she hadn’t bought it herself, and nobody…

• I Want to Join a Dating Site but I’m Terrified of Being Caught. Where Do I Even Start?

  The question that arrived from a reader — let’s call her Rachel from Bristol — is one we’ve heard in various forms more times than we can count. But she put it particularly well: “I’ve been thinking about joining Illicit Encounters for months. I’ve written out the registration form in my head a hundred times.…