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Originally Posted by blacknomi Hi, thank you very much for thoughful correction. 
And as you said, it could probably lead to misunderstanding. I believe there must be a proper way to describe my examples. Of course I do not want to sleep with my parents. H-OOOOO-rrible.  Could you offer some more help with this?
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Mom and Dad sleep in the same bed.
I sleep in my own bed. (Since I wasn't a baby, it couldn't be a crib or cradle, my bed was just smaller than the normal one.) :)
We sleep together in the same bedroom, but I don't have sex with Mom and Dad. :wink:
How can I use one sentence to combine the three ones? |
Something like this: When I was young, I shared a bedroom with Mom and Dad, but I slept in my own bed.
If you say: "I used to sleep with my parents when I was young", I am going to think exactly that - that you slept with them.
My little granddaughter often sleeps with her parents and I am not at all shocked when they talk about it. If I were not a widow, she would have slept with me and her grandpa too. Probably most of us slept with our parents on more than one occasion. I know all my boys did. ( Little kids seem to think it beats their own beds!
) In this context it would take a pretty dirty mind to imagine any kind of incestuous relationship.
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