While We Were Opening Christmas Gifts, My 5-Year-Old Yelled, ‘Yes! The Other Mom Kept Her Promise!’ – After a Long Pause, My Husband Finally Spoke

See, we’d been drifting for a while, so we started having weekly date nights to reignite our spark.

One of Mike’s colleagues recommended a babysitter, a young woman in college, and everything was great at first. We enjoyed our dates, and Simon liked the babysitter.

Then Mike told me we needed to fire her.

“I think she has a crush on me,” he told me. “Whenever we’re alone in a room together, she says things…”

Mike had shrugged.

“She likes my suit, or the scent of my cologne… nothing crazy, but it’s a little weird.”

So, we let her go.

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