On this week’s ‘So You Think You’re an Adult’ segment, one woman asked for advice on how to keep her sex life with her boyfriend alive while living with his parents.

“My boyfriend and I have been in a relationship for six years, we recently moved into his parents’ house so that we can start saving for a mortgage,” she told Moncrieff.

“His mam and dad are lovely, but there’s one thing that’s proving challenging – our bedrooms share a wall, and I simply cannot bring myself to be intimate with him when I know his parents are in such close proximity.

“They rarely, if ever, go out, so it’s very difficult to find any time for us.

“We have recently taken to doing it in the car - it was my boyfriend’s idea and he loves the thrill of it, but I want to book a hotel instead.

“Whenever I mention this, he says that the money is better going towards our mortgage fund.

“What should we do?”

Unhappy couple not talking after an argument in bed at home. Image: Prasit Rodphan / Alamy. 3 February 2018

Broadcaster Barbara Scully said the couple should “go back to the bedroom”.

“Move the bed away from the wall if you’re worried about it banging off it and just get on with it,” she said.

“Just have quiet, comfortable, warm sexy time, and stop worrying about it.

“The parents probably don’t care – like, they know you’re having sex, they don’t really care unless you’re making a huge amount of noise.”

Camping trips

Barbara also suggested that, with the summer months coming along, the couple could take a few camping trips “outside to a forest somewhere, up a mountain or something like that”.

“Do you know what I hate about this as well? It’s assuming, and we’re all assuming, that his mother and father aren’t having sex either,” she said.

TV personality Declan Buckley agreed that the letter writer should get over herself.

“I do think that there is an element of you have to kind of get over it, I do think that’s true,” he said.

“Because it’s about just what are you comfortable with? You’re clearly not comfortable having a handbrake up your back.”

Either that, Declan said, or the couple should buy a car more suited to their needs.

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Main image: Young unhappy couple having problems in relationship. Image: Andor Bujdoso / Alamy. 8 October 2016