‘My mum sleeps with another guy in our house when my stepdad is away for work’
Dear Coleen
I’m an 18-year-old girl and live with my mum and stepdad. I’m in a really difficult situation because I know she’s cheating with another guy – a fellow teacher at the school she works at.
He comes over really late sometimes when she thinks I’m asleep, and he’s even stayed the night on a couple of occasions and left very early the next morning. My stepdad is away with work a lot, so she has the opportunity.
I feel awful knowing this and feel terrible for my stepdad, but so far I’ve said nothing about it to my mum. What should I do?
I think the first thing you have to do is talk to her about it, ask her what’s going on and explain you don’t want to be under pressure to keep this a secret from your stepdad.
It’s not a conversation you ever want to have with you...