Yep, can imagine thatThe boys were 13 and 16, so I guess they stayed clothed because of erections as they were going through puberty, and they had to share a bedroom, that might have something to do with it as well,
Well, I cannot say I had the same identical experience, but just thinking about the situation, I can assure you you are not the only one that would have felt awkward.the daughter had her own room, but most mornings I would wake up and she'd be in the bed between her mother and me, sometimes she would just walk in to the bedroom late at night when we were having sex and stand there and watch until we noticed her.
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I'd be having a bath and the daughter would just jump in the bath with me, that made me feel awkward.
And the way I am, the 10 years old watching me having sex with her mom would have felt so wrong and would have made me really awkward - though don't take it as a criticism, I mean, remember I am doing the incest patch for Myriam, I am definitively not a puritan.
It is just that in real life I tend to be protective, especially of the little ones, and from one side I like that they know the "scientiific" aspect, and about feelings, etc. so they are not completely ignorant (which would put them more easily at risk, as they physically grow up), but from the other, there are aspects to which I would not want to expose them too young, even because young ones tend to imitate, but imitiation without understanding can be easily double dangerous.
It's a pity, honestly, it sounds like it was a problem of communication and/or being able to understand the perspective of the other - probably she did not understand the impact that bad experience had had on you, and that you needed time to feel ready to risk again (aside the practical aspect of work distance).Maybe I was a bit scared of commitment, I'd been in a relationship before and moved in with them giving up my flat, a couple of years later the relationship ended and I was homeless, took a few years for me to get back to the stage of having my own flat again.
Many relations end, or don't even really start, for that type of communication/understanding problem.
Take care