You know how when you have the babies and the toddlers and you sit in the doctor’s waiting rooms reading the parenting magazines and you come across articles giving you suggestions about how to get the intimacy back into your marriage?  Just about every issue of every magazine has some tip or idea or even lengthy essay about how to get it on with your husband during those difficult first few years as a parent.  Well, eventually that advice stops.  I guess they figure after you’ve had kids around for a while, you’ve got a handle on the whole sex thing.

But, then those children grow, and grow, and become teenagers.  Lemme tell you something about teenagers.  You can’t have them skip a nap so you can put them down a little earlier and then enjoy some quiet, or, er, squeaky bed time with your husband.  You can’t plop them in front of Blue’s Clues for a few minutes while you and your husband sneak off for a quickie.  They’re a little more cognizant than that.  And, they stay up really, really late.

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