True Romance: Woman's Friend Dates Her Husband, Professor Falls For Student & An Obsessed Boyfriend's Secret
Welcome to the latest edition of True Romance With SeanJo, your weekly destination for all the romance your heart can handle.
In last week's edition there was a busy mom who used polyamory to keep her marriage exciting. A guy who might have gone too far - depending on how open to romance you are - by getting revenge on his cheating ex by sleeping with her daughter.
To finish things off, there was a father and son dating the same MILF and a reader submission where he admitted there was no chance that he would remarry his wife if he had it to do all over again.
In other words, there was romance falling off the page and spilling all over the floor. Go ahead and lay a few towels down because this week is no different.
We kick things off with a woman's friend who started dating her husband of 20 years just weeks after they separated. That leads us to a couple of obvious questions right off the bat.
There's also a married couple with a large capacity for romance outside their marriage. They've dated as many as 60 people over the last few years, and you're the crazy one for thinking it's bizarre.
Those are the one-two punches to get this week going. From there, we have a married professor who falls for a student, not an ideal situation, but one that happens and an obsessed boyfriend who, it turns out, had a pretty big secret he was keeping from his girlfriend.
Don't forget I want to hear from you. If you have a true romance story you want to share or if you want to comment on anything, send them my way at sean.joseph@outkick.com.
Woman's friend starts dating her husband
Let's jump into the deep end right out of the gate this week with a woman who has recently separated from her husband of 20 years. She hasn't even fully moved out yet and one of her friends is already making the moves on her husband.
The two, who have two kids together, decided to call it quits back in January. Despite the split, they continued to live together. That's always an interesting arrangement, and one that can, from time to time, lead to the bedroom.
"There was still a lot of love for each other, respect and, confusingly, we did still have sex a few times, most recently a few weeks ago," the wife says, The Express reports.
A woman's friend makes the moves on her husband of 20 years shortly after the two announce their separation. (Image Credit: Getty)
The wife just started moving out this month and her friend already wants to start dating her husband. The two have been spending time together since early January, when they started taking walks together.
Since then, the two have been hanging out more often and for other activities besides their walks.
"I've found out today that she has indicated she wants a romantic relationship with my DH, and has been in my house when I haven't been there," she said.
"I've found all of this extremely distressing, the idea of somebody else in my beloved home, the idea of a woman that knows me would so keenly make a move when we are in the very early stages of separation."
She continued, "I haven't moved out fully and have been at my family house most days."
Understandably, the wife, while she wants nothing more for her husband to move on, isn't happy with her friend moving in on her ex. Her anger is "aimed at the woman that's made the move on him when I feel there's so much unfinished business."
The wife added, "It feels properly awkward that she thought it was ok to be spending all that time with him when allegedly she didn't even know about our split as we only told people outside of our family a couple of weeks ago."
That's another way of saying this so-called friend had been eyeballing her husband for a while now. Which we all know is a dirty move on the friend's part.
Although, to be fair to the friend, we don't get to decide when Cupid's arrow hits us. True romance is sloppy sometimes. It can sneak up on us, and before we know it, we're putting the moves on a friend's soon-to-be spouse.
This leads to a couple of obvious questions. Is it ever appropriate to date your friend's ex? And if so, how long do you have to wait in order to do so? Let me know what you think sean.joseph@outkick.com.
Married couple have dated 60 people
Speaking of sloppy situations, this married couple has been rolling through partners over the last several years. They claim to have dated around 60 people since 2020.
If that sounds like a bizarre situation to raise five kids around, that's your problem.
Adam and his wife Eve, something tells me that's not their real names, have a "pretty standard" approach to parenting and say that their love life isn't damaging their children at all.
So the couple, who have been together for 10 years, kept the polyamorous lifestyle going after having children. They're professionals.
These aren't a couple of horny people out for a good time, they're dating coaches. What better way to keep those dating credentials fresh than by putting up numbers by dating outside their marriage?
It makes a ton of sense when you put it like that.
A married couple has dated as many as 60 people in the few years. (Image Credit: Getty)
"When it comes to our children we didn’t really sit down and have a specific conversation like ‘Mommy and Daddy are polyamorous’ - so for them it’s just another friend until about six months in," Eve told Truly.
The couple says that despite putting up 60 in the relationship column in the last few years, they've only introduced three of their partners to their kids. See, it's not as weird as it sounds.
Surprisingly, there are some who can't wrap their minds around their dating lives. They've come up with all sorts of misconceptions about what goes on in their home.
Those people are ridiculous, according to Adam. He said, "I don’t believe our dating life impacts our children in any major way, other than to help them be more tolerant and open to other ideals."
That's the spirit. Mom and dad running through all who are available in town is a positive thing for their children. When you throw out words like tolerant and open, anything is possible.
One of the lucky ones who got to meet the kids and will end up being mentioned by name during their therapy sessions when they get older is a woman named Bella. They started dating her a few months ago and Adam and Eve say their kids adore her.
One big happy family with a revolving door of "special friends" for mom and dad. Eve summed up the situation perfectly.
"The best thing about being in a poly relationship is you’re making your own rules," she said. "It's like you have your cake and eat it."
Who doesn't love cake? With all the polyamory stories floating around on the internet these days, I'm starting to think my wife and I are the rare exception who aren't enjoying any cake.
Are the suburbs really being overrun with married couples prowling around looking to add a third wheel to their marriage? If you know a couple, I want to hear about it sean.joseph@outkick.com.
Professor falls for student
Now to a more traditional true romance story than the polyamorous lifestyle. I'm talking, of course, about the married college professor who ends up falling for one of his students.
It happens. It shouldn't, but it does. Fate brings people together, and they're expected to ignore it because of some vows they took. It doesn't always work out that way, unfortunately.
A 35-year-old married mom took to Reddit to reveal that her college sweetheart, who she married 8 years ago, has fallen for one of his students. Not the kind of news you want to hear from a friend, but that's how this all unfolded.
The friend stirred it all up back in December when they went out to lunch together. Sarah told her "that she suspected something's going on between my husband and this 25-year-old med student."
Sarah claimed that she had witnessed them both giving "yearning looks" to each other. She added, "that she’s known my husband for so long, and she’d never seen him talk to any other woman like this, that he’d been so aloof around women all these years, but it’s just different with this one girl."
A married college professor falls for one of his students. (Image Credit: Getty)
The wife attempted to laugh it off before being hit with this line, a line that stung. Sarah said, "She looks at him like he’s Brad Pitt, and he looks at her the way he used to look at you."
Later that night, she brought it up casually to her husband, expecting that he would laugh it off with her. He didn't. He responded by getting emotional and saying "I'm sorry."
He had been bitten by the romance bug and added, "I can’t get her out of my mind. I’ve tried, trust me. I should’ve told you sooner. But I thought I could save our relationship, I really wanted to."
Although he had denied cheating on his wife, he couldn’t deny the mutual feelings that he and the student shared. The wife packed up, took their daughter, and left. They're now staying with her parents.
It's been months since she moved out. He's not asking her to move back, and they're not talking about the "insanely beautiful" college student that caught his eye.
This is shaping up to be a story about the one who got away and, no, I'm not talking about the wife. This guy is about to lose his family, never pursue anything with his true love, and then live with regret his entire life. Now that's romance.
To me, this is all Sarah's fault. If she never said anything, the professor would have simply missed out on true love. He would still have his wife and kid living with him to help cope with the misery of the one who got away.
Let me know why I'm 100 percent correct at sean.joseph@outkick.com.
Obsessed boyfriend hiding a secret that his friends and family all knew
We've been all over the map today with a friend moving in on a husband too soon, the married couple who is running through the town's single population, and the traditional professor and student love story.
This one is a cautionary tale of romance that's too good to be true. You're not always going to catch eyes with a stripper at the club or fall in love with an inmate that you met on a pen pal website.
Those are the lucky ones. Sometimes you're the one who gets duped into what you think is a normal dating situation by a normal looking guy.
The sparks are flying, he's obsessed, and then the red flags start popping up once everything comes into focus, and you're dropped back down to earth from the cloud you were floating on.
A 19-year-old from California found this out the hard way when she discovered her boyfriend was hiding a secret. One that all of his family and friends, including his actual girlfriend, knew about.
Laura Twyford says she was approached by a guy a few months ago. They started seeing each other and soon after there was talk of marriage and starting a family.
He met her family and, according to her, he was obsessed with her. They were full on in the middle of their own romantic movie. They were both head over heels.
That was until his busy schedule got in the way. "Mister man was busy a lot, and it became a problem because he didn’t have time for me," Twyford said. "[He] didn’t have time for a relationship, right?"
This caused the storybook romance to come to an end. She was forced to call it off, and they ended the relationship on good terms. Until she found out his secret.
After they broke up, she noticed a comment that read "husband" on one of his Instagram posts. She then turned into an internet detective. She finds out that he's been in a three-year relationship with his best friend's sister.
A best friend that she met. After repeated attempts to get in contact with her now ex-boyfriend and/or his girlfriend of three years, the ex finally tells her that he's in an open relationship and that his girlfriend knew about her the entire time.
"I was getting played not only by a man, but by his girlfriend and all of their friends," she admits. "I was the joke."
If he's not answering, or he's always too busy, then you're not the main girlfriend. That or he's up to some Dexter-like activities, and you had better propose to him and stay on his good side. Special thanks to Dave for sending this one in.
That's all for this week's edition. Let me know what you think about any of these tales of true romance and send any of your own that you'd like to share to sean.joseph@outkick.com.