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I'd be annoyed that he answered the phone at all.

Dear Prudence,
My boyfriend of one year and I are both recently graduated twentysomethings living at home like true millennials. While this has caused a few bumps in our love life, his mother is very open, liberal and allows me to spend the night at their house with him. Usually his mother gives us plenty of space, except for insisting on making us coffee and breakfast some mornings. The other day as we were being intimate, his mother called him on his cellphone. She often calls even when she knows we’re in the house so as not to barge in. This time, he answered the phone and continued to have sex with me as he talked to her. I was livid and disturbed, not to mention feeling cheap in a very Oedipal way. We talked it over at length and he recognized that it was inappropriate and immature, and he apologized. But I can't help feeling that this should send a self-respecting young woman packing and running. Am I overreacting?

—Don’t Answer

Re: I'd be annoyed that he answered the phone at all.

  • WzzWzz member
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    yay, Thursdays!
  • This has to be fake.  If she had signed this Lana, I would be dying in laughter (ala Archer).

    Also, don't answer the phone.  I would think Mom would get the idea.

    And really, if Mom is letting you as adults stay together at her home, get up and have the freaking coffee and breakfast.
  • "living at home like true millennials".

    Stop it, young people. Just stop. Get roommates. Get two jobs. Do what's necessary, but don't live with your parents and try to call yourself an adult. 

    Jeez. I never finished college and yet somehow managed to be out of my parents' house by age 21. I don't understand the problem here. 
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  • SDNYSDNY member
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    Why would you write to Prudy if you don't want a flipping answer? That's stupid.
  • I think Don't Answer meant the phone.
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