‘Mom, you just let yourself be seduced, Dad is right there!’

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Evelien (36) is married and mother of Babs (7) and Pien (3).

“Yes, the tropical years didn’t bother me and maybe I accepted the schoolyard father’s advances a little too jolly during the school’s Easter party. My body language apparently left little to the imagination, because just when I was really on my way, Babs tugged at my skirt: ‘Mom, you just let yourself be seduced, Daddy is right there!’”

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He knows about mittens

Esmée (32) is married and mother of Lior (4) and Micky (3).

“I may be a mother, but I am still tough and sexy. At least, that’s what I hoped when I wanted to show the group of beeping men – still wearing their handy clothes from a move – at the neighborhood drink what kind of woman they were dealing with.

“For minutes I heard them discussing ‘the dog’”

For several minutes I heard – not quite within earshot to really follow the conversation – how they argued about ‘the doggy’, as they roared with laughter and clapped each other’s shoulders affirmatively. In heels that were actually too high for a party where I also brought two running toddlers, I confidently paraded towards them. “Guys, I couldn’t help but catch your subject, but instead of a dog, you better use a sack truck to move stacked moving boxes, eh.” Like this. That sat. Wife, mother and I knew about mittens.

‘Dog?’ repeated one. “We’ve got four hand trucks,” chuckled the other. To which the third butted in: they were talking about the draft dog from their own childhood, with which one of their children was now playing. No tough man talk, it was about toys. The hand truck man winked understandingly: ‘But you obviously don’t understand that.’”

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