The Affleck Affect

I feel like ranting but I don't know at who, exactly. I think I am pissed of at Ben Affleck's nanny. Could she be more obviously in love with him? He's a movie star, I am sure a lot of people have a thing for him. She is the nanny. She had no composure or regard for his family?

My husband has been strutting around all week following this news. Why? Because we have known for awhile that our nanny has a crush on him. I'm pretty sure I'm pissed off at him, although I have no reason to.

We usually have a good relationship, but I don't know why this unnerved me?
Is it because Jennifer Garner is gorgeous?

My husband and I joke around alot.

Last night we were talking and he said. "It's really enough to know that I could 'have' the nanny"
This pissed me off so I said something uncharacteristic. I said, "yeah, all 200 pounds of her"
To which he said, "But she's 22"
I didn't say anything, because I didn't want him to know I was for some reason really mad. So he said again. "Ahhhh 22"

This only made me feel worse about being 44.

Our nanny is my right hand. Many people find my husband attractive. Why am I so unnerved by this? I am a strong, confident woman and my reaction to this is making me hate myself!

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Keeping Mum and Sending Mail in The Hamptons

Estiu_Iv Orlov

I am in the Hamptons with the family I work with. Dad comes down three days a week. It's mom and I mostly. She has a large circle of friends with children 2-10 that her children play with. My job is to follow the kids wherever they go. Even if they are playing at Mrs. Mack's house, I am there. If they are invited to the beach with Mrs. Jack, I go.

I see a lot. One thing I saw that I know I should not have seen is Dad in town on Thursday before he even announced his arrival to his family. I can't use any location specifics because I have a non disclosure agreement so I can't say more, but I saw him on Thursday day with the nanny of one of the families that their children play with. Because of where they were and what I observed, there was no mistaking that they had a physical involvement.

I sat on this morsel of information all weekend and watched Mr. Big as her went about his Dad and husband duties. As a woman, it scared me, because there was not a clue that he had just been finger pleasuring a nanny that he separated from with three meaningful kisses. 1,2,3.

On Saturday, I took the kids to the beach with Mimi, Mrs. Smith's nanny. Mrs. Smith showed up and sat up her chair next to us and began reading. Then my boss came with her chair and sat next to Mrs. Smith and began talking and reading. Next, Mrs. Jones, her child and the nanny that was with my boss on Thursday came to the beach. Let's call this nanny Annie. Annie got in with us and introduced herself to the other moms. I didn't catch any pause or anything, and believe me I was watching. Annie was great with the kids and we made the sort of nanny chit chat that nannies make in front of the parents.

My male boss calls my female boss and they have a conversation, He says he is going to stay over one more night and drive to the city the next morning. We all heard this conversation. When my boss hung up, she said he was staying and she was going to try and get a dinner reservation.  One of the details confirmed the identity of my boss to Annie. Then Annie's whole demeanor changed. She started doting on my charges. Rubbing their hair. She was looking at them all dreamy eyed, I swear like she was imagining them as her own. Out of the corner of her eye, I could see her assessing my boss.

Annie made a big show of talking about taking her charge to see a movie that night and inviting my charges, As an after thought, she invited the other child in the group. My kids were not interested because it is more of a boy movie. She then tried to convince them to go. Telling them it would be so much fun, that they could go get ice cream after.  I interjected that maybe we could meet up for ice cream because I might take them out that evening. This shut Annie the nanny down.

My boss then left the next day for the city and is due back Wednesday night for the weekend. This Annie nanny has been stalking us, I feel. Like, she has a bike and I  have seen her ride past our house very early in the morning. I don't think the situation is dangerous because Annie seems insignificant, especially to my boss. I don't know what he was thinking. I don't see a way for me to share what I saw, especially because the details are crude, and the people would no doubt deny it and I would look foolish.

At the same time, I am feeling very territorial over the kids, the house and my female boss, like I don't want to let her near. So this morning, I went to the post office and mailed a letter to Mrs. Jones at her residence here. It says simply, "Please talk to your nanny. She is throwing herself at married men and behaving like a depraved whore".

Now I wait. I figure I did the best I could with what I had to work with. What would you have done?My boss is totally composed, polished and professional and this nanny is just skanky. Watch your men, women. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would not have believed it.

Block Watch meets Page Six

I live diagonal across from "May" and her husband and three children in a neighborhood in Westchester County. My children play with "May's" children. They played more frequently as toddlers. When they were toddlers, May had a great nanny named "June." May is a working Mom and so I got to know June.

My neighbor's children are now  school aged and she has a housekeeper/nanny "April" that still works full days. "April" is June's sister in law.

So here's the scoop, June had one child and then a second. She got married in 2011 and then her husband cheated on her with someone so they are in the process of a very nasty divorce. She wants sole custody of the child and he wants atleast 1/2 custody. This scandalous custody battle has come back to bite my neighbors in the ass because June's husband wrote May a handwritten letter that told her a number of things about June, including that she stole a pair of "canary" earings and that her now 6 year old child is the son of her husband and that May and her husband were having "dirty sex" for atleast a year of her employment.

Because of April's connection to June, there was a huge blow up. (It was the truth!) May was demanding answers from April, specifically, did she know. It became so overblown that the police were called to the home by a third neighbor and April was removed from the house. Literally, I watched the whole thing. May stood outside and spoke to one officer while another went in with April and had her pack up her things. They then escorted her off the property. They seemed to be very nice to her and she wasn't in trouble.

Our neighbor across the street left town with her children for a spontaneous summer vacation. Clearly to get away from the mess. She had been gone since the beginning of July when last week I noticed "June" pull up in a brand new KIA. New as in it still had the dealer plates on it. My children are 9 & 12. They keep asking me when their friends are coming back. I really don't want to spread any rumors but I'm really concerned about what I have seen. The KIA has stayed parked overnight twice last week. Do I tell my children what is going on but it isn't appropriate to talk about it? I think the 12 year old knows there is a woman involved. Do I have an obligation to my neighbor to let her know that in her absence, her husband isn't being punished at all, but seems to be enjoying spending time with his illegitimate son?  I figure she is going to realize that the June was in her house and the way the neighborhood is set up, realize that we would know what is going on. She told me she and her husband were going through a 'rough patch' and that she thought time away with the children would be good for them. As a woman, I feel really terrible watching this all unfold.

I also got some additional information from my housekeeper who is friends with April. May knows that our housekeeper and April are friends because we found our housekeeper through her. The neighbor next door to me, also has witnessed this stuff and says we should confront June, and tell her she was a low life for taking up with a married woman and being in her house. I can say I want no part of it, but I will be honest, it has been some very interesting gossip. When I think of our children playing together as toddlers, backyard cookouts and things, I feel really bad for May. I feel for the children too. And April, who we found our housekeeper through now needs a job like right away. I wouldn't have went through April to get my housekeeper if she wasn't so good, so I know she is good and anyone would be lucky to have her. I don't know what she knew about this situation, but it is her brother that wrote the letter to May.

I feel like I'm getting sucked in and I want to help but don't know who to help and how. Would it be disloyal to May to help April get a job? My housekeeper says April has nothing to do with June.

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