[Request] Have you caught your parents cheating on each other?

[bayrummy]

Please share. What did you do? What did they do?

[Hornyinde]

I don’t know for positive that they “cheated”, but I think they were swingers or swappers for a bit in early 70’s. I was young so I didn’t know a lot at the time, but putting things together later….

They went to a lot of parties where I heard my mom joke about “who’s keys will I get tonight”. I remember “friends” that would be at our home for breakfast on weekends when I woke up.

We also had some friends of theirs that we called aunt and uncle, but none were blood relatives. They (male and female) would stop by at different times and spend time with my mom behind locked doors.

Nothing definitive but a lot of “smoke” for there not to be “fire”. A different time than now. I never saw it after we moved at the start of the 80’s. I would have liked catching then when I was in my teens and more aware.

[chuckfinly]

Do you have anything to share?

This is not me but my wife. When she was young (not sure exactly what age but IIRC I would say 5ish) she got up to ask her mom for something and walked into her parents' room. Her dad was working a night shift and there was a strange man in bed with her mom. They told her to go back to bed and in the morning he was gone. Wife's mom made wife promise never to tell her father. Wife says she does not remember seeing anything graphic and that they were just laying side by side under the covers.

[daskers]

Years ago my dad owned a small independent trucking company, and although he had drivers, he would also go out over the road sometimes himself. On some of those occasions I would go with him. One time while I was with him, he was flirting real heavy with a waitress at a truck stop that was about to get off her shift. He ended up giving me a few dollars to play some video games, and a couple of hours later after the money ran out for the games, I made my way back to the truck. When I got to the truck, it was rocking a little, and I heard moaning coming from the sleeper thru the vent that was opened on the side. When I tried the door it was locked. I decided to go back into the truck stop to watch tv for awhile. When I decided to go back out the truck again, I seen the waitress he had been flirting with coming out the passenger door. No more than a minute after that my dad come out the drivers side door, and as he walked up to me, he ask if I was ready to go.

I never said anything to him about the above situation, nor did I ever mention anything about it to my mom. I was around 9 years old at the time.