DEAR DEIDRE: AFTER being happily divorced for 15 years, I am suddenly feeling like a lovesick teenager.
I enjoy my job but I wanted more of a social life, so I signed up for an over-fifties badminton club.
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I am a woman aged 53 and one of the members is a man my age. We became friends.
He is married but always finds a reason to chat to me and says I have a lovely smile.
Now he’s started hugging me and kissing me when we meet. Most of my friends, male and female, greet me this way but with him it feels different. It lingers.
It is obvious we are attracted to each other and friends tease us about it. I feel like an idiot for getting into this situation but I have not felt this way for years.
DEIDRE SAYS: You are no idiot but you need to set boundaries and protect yourself from getting more involved with him.
If he is married, he probably intends to stay married.
Say you get on so well you are sure you would get on with his wife too. Ask him to bring her along to the next social gathering.
He will get the message.
