True Romance: Grandma Babysits The Kids While Mom Cheats, Hilary Duff's A Romantic & Sugar Daddy Experiences

Welcome to the latest edition of True Romance. I can promise you right out of the gate that we're not going to let the news of Amy Schumer losing a bunch of weight and then filing for divorce drag us down.

That's not going to happen. Not on my watch. Neither is the news that Nicole Kidman finalized her divorce from Keith Urban. Good for them. She can now play the role of cougar in real life, if she so chooses.

That's up to her and no one should ever suggest that all the cougar action on film played a role in her divorce. She's a professional and damn you for thinking it had anything to do with the divorce, if you did.

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I don’t plan to dive into Tom Brady's possible missed connection with the lovely and talented Alix Earle. The reported flirty, boozy fun with "zero hookup" is their business.

What I am going to do is some self reflection this week. We're in a new year and people like to do that, or so I hear. I'm not one of them. Maybe I'm not a person. Maybe I'm lazy or maybe there's too much darkness in there.

Who knows? I'm not going to think too much about it because why would I? This self-reflection has to do more with us as a people, not necessarily as individuals. 

How did I end up here? I was dragged here by a tale of a cheating wife and her mom who babysits so she can cheat on her husband while he's out of town. 

Have we gone too far? Or have we finally reached an optimal spot as a people?

Romance is worth having the best of both worlds even if you need a trusted lookout to pull it off, right? Grandma never liked the husband anyway, and if it puts a smile on her daughter's face, what's the harm?

Sure, there will be consequences for the kids when the affair is eventually uncovered. Therapy bills will pile up as they try to unpack their mom cheating on their dad with the help of their grandmother.

But all that is in the future. That's not right now. Did you miss the part about the smile being back on the married woman's face because she's running around behind her husband's back? That's an important part, and we shouldn’t lose sight of it.

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Grandma babysits, so her daughter can cheat on her husband

Sally, a 61-year-old grandmother, says her favorite thing to do is babysit her two grandchildren so that her daughter Sophie, 36, can cheat on her husband.

If that isn’t the type of love between a mother and daughter that fills your heart, I don’t know what is. Grandma doesn’t like her daughter's husband, and it doesn’t sound like she ever has.

"Everyone thinks my daughter has the perfect family life — married for more than a decade, with two charming children and a gorgeous home, she wrote in The Sun. 

"But only I know that she has secretly been cheating on the father of her children for the past three years And I’m not just willing to help her in her deception, I’m absolutely delighted about it."

A grandmother babysits the grandkids while the kids' mom cheats on her husband while he's out of town. (Image Credit: Getty)

Sally has always thought that Sophie could have done better. She expected the relationship to fizzle out after meeting her daughter's husband Dave.

When it didn’t, and she learned they were going to get married, she held out hope that her daughter wouldn’t go through with it.

He'd forget birthdays and skip family events and when he did make it to the family events he'd flirt with other women in front of Sophie.

They did get married and they had two kids. He didn’t help out with the kids at all and would stay out late after work, leaving Sophie with them.

"Outwardly, they looked like the perfect, happy family — but I knew Sophie was beginning to resent him. I’d like to meet the man who has made her so happy, but the less I know, the less covering my tracks I need to do," Grandma continued.

"Sometimes, Sophie will tell Dave, in front of me, that she’s coming over to my house to help me with something — but I know she’s not going to turn up. I’m happy to be her cover."

Dave's too arrogant to believe that his wife would cheat on him. Sophie isn’t going to leave her husband while her kids are young. Grandma hopes she does one day. She doesn’t care if it's right or wrong helping her daughter cheat.

"As a mother, I want to do everything in my power to make sure her life is happy — and if that means helping her cheat on her husband, so be it. If Dave were a better man, I’d possibly encourage her to work on the marriage," she said.

The affair has been going on for three years now. It started with drinks while her husband was on a golf trip. Now every time he goes out of town, usually a couple of times a month, Sally watches the kids while they're sleeping, so mom can cheat on their dad.

"It’s nice to see her smile again. I feel like I’ve got my daughter back. Because she’s cheerful, the children seem happier, too. It’s the best thing that has ever happened to her and her kids," Sally claims.

Look at that. A mother and daughter bonding over a secret affair that the husband doesn’t know about and probably doesn’t even care about.

They think they're getting away with something, but I suspect Dave isn’t keeping it in his pants either.

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Lessons learned from a married couple sleeping with each other every day for an entire year

Here's an experiment we can get behind. Or in front of, or whatever position you feel like. A woman by the name of Brittany Gibbons hopped into her bed with her husband for 365 days straight.

That was three years ago, and she says it had a lasting impact. A stronger core, better flexibility, fantastic cardio, interestingly enough, were not among the things she mentioned.

The mom of three got the idea from a friend of hers who had made the daily commitment to hitting the sheets and reported that it helped her relationship. Brittany and her husband weren’t in any trouble when they went into it.

It was a challenge, she says, reports Lad Bible, to "save herself." If only others out there were in need of saving themselves.

Three years later, a busy married couple is still feeling the impact of having sex every day for 365 days straight. (Image Credit: Getty)

"Having sex every day for a year seemed obnoxious but also an intriguing way to force myself into facing my body each day. I mean, eventually, the covers would have to come off, and the lights would have to stay on, right?," she said.

"As the months passed, I started looking forward to it. Sex begat more sex, and those connected, loved-up feelings began to creep outside of the bedroom - or, in our case, the laundry room, the closet, and our garage - and into our everyday lives."

This led to more romance between the couple. Although, after 365 days in a row, they were looking forward to a little bit of a break. Her "pelvis and thighs welcomed the rest."

"However, the effects and lessons from the experience are still apparent in our marriage even now. First, we learned that it's hard, and that's normal. The majority of people around you are not having sex every single day," she said of the experiment.

"They're busy being stressed at work, coordinating their kids' soccer schedules, and paying bills. Fitting sex into all of that is difficult, but, for us, it's necessary. Sex is what reminds us we're intimate partners and not just roommates in charge of keeping kids alive."

The big takeaways from the year of banging every day is that she feels good about herself, and they were able to discover that "Intimacy doesn't always mean penetration."

Who knew?

"It was never about anyone wanting me - it was about me wanting myself. And it only took an entire year of getting laid to figure that out."

Women who have had a "sugar daddy", what was your experience? Was it worth it?

Now to the experiences of those who have had a sugar daddy. There's a wide range from fancy dinners and expensive gifts, to those who turn down the offers of acquiring a sugar daddy.

The "I've had offers but said no" crowd are a special bunch. I'm hot enough to pull it off, I just choose not to. I'd love to hear more from them, but this isn’t just about them. It's about all sugar daddy experiences.

Special thanks to the cesspool that is Reddit:

• We had some fun together. Nights in nice hotels, really nice dinners, he'd buy me presents and stuff. He was kind of needy, though, and it became annoying have to be so "on" all the time. You're really acting as someone's fantasy woman and that, to me, was exhausting. We only saw each other for like two months maybe.
• I've had a few guys offer, but they were very old and unattractive to me. A friend of mine has had an ongoing sugar daddy thing for years. She's stunning (looks like adriana lima with bigger boobs) and her sugar daddy is in his 50s and actually pretty good looking for an older guy. He's bought her a condo, a lexus, a couple birkin bags, jewellery, and has helped support her kid (she's a single mom). So for her it has worked out very well.
• I made a profile on sugardaddy.com one time. I had gotten out of a 3-year relationship about 6 months previous. My ex (who I had been head-over-heels for) already had a new girlfriend. My attitude was kind of, "Screw love, I'm marrying for money". I only had the profile for maybe a month or so tops. Anyways, most of the guys on there were older (40+) and I was 22. There would be no way I could go through with actually meeting one of them, have me buy me a bunch of shit, and then have to sleep with him. Gross.
• Never tried it. I've been propositioned and it made me nauseous. They're all so old, desperate and bald, but worst of all they're really cynical/dead inside. It's not worth the money. Plus the unequal power relation makes me super uncomfortable. I'll take a dirt broke 20 year old with aspirations, dreams and a full head of hair! Thank you very much
• I have a few right now, maintained them for a long time. I enjoy it, it doesn't feel "wrong" because I only chose clients I'm compatible with as I would be with a friend.
• I had a wonderful sugar daddy experience, but it was more lowkey and less "flashy" than the image most people have. I was 24, looking for fwb basically, and figured "What the hell?" and posted an ad searching for my "daddy".
• My sister has a sugar daddy that lives on the other side I the country. They have an online relationship and every so often he transfers money into her bank account. It's helped us pay rent a few times and she doesn't actually have to do anything with him sexually, so yeah definitely worth it.
• If I wasn't in a LTR I'd seriously consider this. My only fear would be someone finding out that I was a sugar baby.
• I can barely sell my soul/time/body/mind to a job. Can't imagine selling it to a person who thinks of me as a commodity. It would rip away my remaining sense of personhood. But to each there own. I have gf's who married for money. Same difference.
• Never had one, but I overheard a few girls in my class when I was in college talking about their sugar daddies. I didn't expect it to be so common.
• I live in New York and work for a non-profit. I ended up dating two men who made significantly more than I do. Never once were they expressly "sugar daddy" relationships but they'd end up paying for the nice dinners, for trips, for a car service to take me home. They were both in their mid-thirties, I was (and am) in my early twenties. I guess it was fun - but I think (not confirmed) both of them were married / in committed relationships which made me feel shitty. I also developed feelings for one of them and had to end it cause he was never going to give me what I wanted (a relationship). All in all it was fun - but probably messed me up emotionally more than I want to admit.
• I've had offers and said no. I've had men offer to take me around the world, guys in Italy want to bring me there for months and spoil me, yadda yadda, ick. I don't even like when a guy pays for a first date, because I don't want to feel like I "owe" him anything. I would be a terrible sugar baby.

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