Why do straight men always have affairs with their nannies?

Why are all nannies whores, OP?

Their own nannies? Yes, that does sound strange.

Oh Mary Poppins, I... I want you to make me a man, the way only you know how.

Because if they had an affair with the gardener, they wouldn't be straight, silly.

For the same reason men cheat on their wives after starting a family. They have mommy issues and feel jealous of the attention their children ae getting.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

What are you talking about? It never happened.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

My brother had an affair with the babysitter after he and his wife had their first child. It was a real mess.

Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a powerful aphrodisiac.

Because they're lazy and rarely will put in any effort for some hot snatch. They'll go for whatever is close by, because they're not picky when it comes to pussy!

Even Leo Tolstoy opens his masterpiece Anna Karenina with this premise

Sure, OP. And all straight men eventually marry women 30 years younger than they are.

Because it's a young hot woman living under their roof. If the maid was young and hot and in the house, they'd fuck her too.

Because they want a woman who is like a mother to their children, but whose body has not been ruined by them.

Do you remember why Don Draper fell in love Meghan? Because he watched her reaction to his children’s spilling a milkshake and it was exactly the opposite of what he would see from their actual mother - Betty. It was empathetic, kind and forgiving.

So, he married her.

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Why Do Straight Men Always Have Affairs with Their Nannies?

A Cautionary Tale in Six Acts

Act I: The King in His Castle

Once upon a midlife, a man with a mortgage, receding hairline, and a $4,000 espresso machine wakes up one morning and realizes—gasp!—his wife has become a mother. His mother. The mother of his children. A creature with opinions, schedules, and zero tolerance for nonsense. He is, tragically, no longer the center of attention.

Act II: Enter the Nanny

She arrives like a Swedish sprite, carrying organic snacks and the scent of lavender. She’s 23, unburdened by time, gravity, or the knowledge that he once cried during Paddington 2. She laughs at his jokes. She does not yet know he is insufferable. In short: she is doomed.

Act III: The Immaculate Misconception

He mistakes gratitude for flirtation. She thanks him for replacing the leaky faucet and he hears, “Take me now, Lord of Home Depot.” He offers to drive her home. He plays her his vinyl collection. One thing leads to another, and by “another,” we mean something deeply regrettable, filmed on a Nest cam.

Act IV: The Justification Olympics

He claims he felt “seen.” He says things at couples therapy like, “I just wanted to feel alive again.” He forgets that he has three children, a golden retriever named Waffles, and a Peloton subscription he hasn’t touched since March. He is, in short, a cliché with a bank account.

Act V: The Fallout

The wife becomes a meme. The nanny becomes a tabloid headline. The man goes on a podcast. He is very sorry. He writes a memoir. It is optioned by HBO.

Act VI: The Sequel

Six months later, a new nanny arrives. She is 24. He has learned nothing.

I never fucked the nanny.

[quote]Because they want a woman who is like a mother to their children, but whose body has not been ruined by them.

NO. They want something young and available. The nanny is the only one they know. And she's available because she's undocumented.

"Why do straight men always have affairs with their nannies?"

Proximity

R5 People love to say men have “mommy issues” to make it sound like they’re emotionally tied to women but a lot of the time, they’re not. They don’t want mommy, they want maids.

Men don’t cheat or manipulate because they’re secretly craving motherly love. They do it because they want power, convenience, and freedom without accountability.

The whole “mommy issues” theory is just another way to make women feel important in a straight man’s dysfunction and like he’s broken without her.

Most men aren’t emotionally dependent on women, they’re just dependent on what women do.

And once that stops, they’ll replace the service not reflect on the loss.

I had a lesbian friend who nannied and told me one of the moms she worked drunkenly told her that everyone wants a lesbian nanny for this reason.

My best friend fucked their au pair. The little slut was asking for it from almost the moment she walked in the house. Some of his wife's friends warned her not to bring that girl into her house, but she wouldn't listen.

R18 Yeah, just look at Arnold and the maid.

Honestly, both genders totally misread what the other actually wants outside of sex.

Women often mislabel masculinity, chasing scumbags and losers like they’re alpha males. Meanwhile, men fall for youth and “niceness” and a lot of women fake that well. Once the mask slips, he runs to the woman who seems easy, kind, and cooperative.

That’s why it’s the nanny. Or the co-worker. Or the barista. Or the waitress at the diner.

Oh but I also meant to add Arnold’s maid wasn’t young or pretty but she was probably a good fuck and was probably nice compared to Maria.

[quote]Most men aren’t emotionally dependent on women

Oh yeah? Most men are dependent on their wives emotionally because they have no other friends. Some have bowling or golfing male friends, but most depend on their wives for the emotional stuff, Their wives depend on their female friend for that.

All the " Arnold and the maid" stuff is for wealthy men.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s housekeeper was neither young nor hot.

A wise man once said, "Men are only as faithful as their options." Remember that.

She was AVAILABLE, R26

Propinquity.

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I don't think someone like Maria Shriver is capable of giving emotional comfort. Arnold was more likely in love with her name and status and whatever else she could provide him, and she wanted kids and to keep up appearances. The maid, on the other hand, can listen to Arnold vent and fold his underwear. She won't make any demands of him. There's also a power imbalance. Men with power love the imbalance.

A boy in my city fucked his 17 year old babysitter at 11 years old in 5th grade. Dad was a hypermasculine Hispanic so he was proud. As far as I know, they would lie to the authorities when they were turned in saying the kid made it up. Who knows.

I’ve heard a lot of boys around 11 or 12 lose their virginity in certain countries like Mexico to older women.

they are all sexy sluts

la la la I can't her you.

R25 Sure, some men emotionally rely on their wives but that’s not the same as respecting or being emotionally available in return. Emotional dependence without emotional investment isn’t connection, it’s convenience.

In cases like Meghan Markle (as some see it), it’s a reminder that power dynamics work both ways. Some women use emotional closeness to gain control, while some men allow it because they conflate emotional attachment with loyalty or identity. That’s not real dependence, it’s a trade-off.

R31 But power comes in all forms. You don’t have to have power the same way Arnold does for this to happen.

This is where my original point comes back around. That women have a real issue understanding masculinity and what an “alpha male” actually is.

A lot of women assign power to the wrong men like bad boys, ex-cons, broke guys with no ambition because they confuse chaos with strength, and emotional avoidance with mystery. That’s why so many of these men end up fathering multiple children with multiple women. It’s not because they’re alpha, it’s because women handed them the power, mistaking dysfunction for dominance.

Meanwhile, real masculine traits such discipline, control, long-term thinking will get overlooked in favor of short-term edge and energy.

So when people say men want someone submissive like “the maid” to avoid demands, sure, that’s true. But on the flip side, women often empower losers because they misunderstand what makes a man strong.

And yes Maria Shriver was a social elevation for Arnold, and he was a status-flex for her. She was a Kennedy, a journalist, and a political insider. Their marriage was transactional.

Historically, marriage was a contract with sex, heirs, labor, status. Love came later. Affairs were tolerated, especially for men, because the emotional or sexual side of the deal wasn’t always expected from the wife.

But we live in a society today where marriage is more “choice” and we pretend it’s always romance and love that comes first.

If this was pre-1800s, no one would blink an eye at Arnold and the nanny.

And even if you go back into history and we’re talking about wealth, men in power have always slept with women in proximity—maids, ladies-in-waiting, assistants., etc.

Same thing.

Because they’re close by and there’s a bed available and their wives are out of the house.

R37 the woman expert has arrived

R41 Here comes the “you can talk about men but never women” bullshit.

This sounds like a straight porn plot.

Because the missus has a hatchet for a face

Maybe Arnold’s nanny suck good cock. She looked like a beast

a younger woman than the actual mother, mothering the child (and probably treating the husband with deference) activates the reptilian brain and they see her as prime breeding /mate material

Would a straight man fuck the manny? Or receive head from the manny?

Sometimes you have to get out of the gay mindset. Straight guys don’t need to fuck hot women. Would they like to? Yes, but if a hot woman isn’t available - pussy is pussy, and if it’s willing, all the better. I learned this in college. Yeah, the goal was to land a Tri Delt or a KD, but a fat DZ’s pussy provided the same basic function and you didn’t have to promise to take them to a formal.

I honestly don't know why men would fuck the hot nanny and risk getting divorced and breaking up the family unit, especially when the wife is a saint.

perky tits and adoring eyes r49.

But the wife is a church lady! R50

Straight breeder dick always wants to chase after a younger version of what it has at home. I mean, I don't want to reduce it to sex, the guy is responsible for his own actions, but there probably is some primal urge to breed when he sees the au pair or the babysitter.

Because she's a woman and she's around and there's a bed.

Maybe the nanny is a little tighter like daddy likes it.

The same reason men fuck their secretaries or kids pre-school assistant. Convenience.

If their tax account is female and lived in the house she’d be getting fucked too.