New York Mets star Pete Alonso hit a special milestone on Sunday. Alonso tied David Wright for second in Mets history in home runs, per Major League Baseball. Alonso now has 16 blasts this season, and 242 on his career. Alonso got the historic home run in a game against the Colorado Rockies. Alonso went deep […]
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DEAR DEIDRE: IF my best pal finds out that I’m having an affair with his mum, it will ruin our friendship and tear his family apart.
I’m 20, the same age as my mate. He has two siblings, aged 17 and 15.
I’ve known his mum, who is 49, since I was a kid. She used to pick me up from school sometimes when my mum was working late.
She was our biggest supporter when we played football for our local team, always ready with encouragement and snacks.
When we were in our early teens, her husband cheated on her.
My mate told me how she didn’t cope well, but within the year she’d moved on with another guy, who she was with for three years.
But that relationship also ended when he moved abroad for work.
Soon after, I bumped into her in a new cafe in town.
I helped her carry her shopping home, chatting all the way.
When we got there, she asked me to do a little DIY job while I was there.
My mate is away at training college so isn’t around to help her.
She also asked me if I could do a few other repairs for her and I agreed to do them.
The next time I went round, though, we began flirting.
Before I knew it, we were kissing and cuddling. We went to her bedroom — she led me there by the hand.
We ended up having the most awesome sex. Afterwards, she said it was a one-off not to be repeated.
However, we have had sex many times since then.
She is really worried that my mate will find out, but we are very careful — and so far our secret is safe.
I love her, but she says I need to find a woman my own age. I worry that someone will get hurt and it’s likely to be me.
DEIDRE SAYS: This relationship won’t ever work. She’s running a home with no partner to give her support, but she should know better than to seduce her son’s friend.
Your mate would be devastated if he knew what his mother is doing, and you stand to lose his friendship if he ever finds out.
You don’t have to give in to temptation. Don’t go round to her house again.
Get out with friends your own age and give yourself the chance of a more equal relationship.
You’ve had a lucky escape and got away with it.
Put it down to experience and get on with enjoying your life.
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DEAR DEIDRE: I CANNOT stop feeling angry with my ex-wife – who I broke up with after coming home early one day and seeing her in bed with another guy.
I am 36. I thought we had a great relationship, but clearly I was wrong.
We had been married for five years and were talking about starting a family.
But she began going out regularly, getting drunk and not coming home until the early hours.
After I caught her cheating, we divorced. She has remarried and has a baby. I have moved on, too, and am now with a wonderful woman.
Our mutual friends have accepted my ex’s new husband, yet they don’t seem to want to know my partner, who has done nothing wrong. It feels like I am being punished for her affair when I am completely innocent.
My ex’s life seems to be going so smoothly. She hasn’t suffered in the way I did and I sometimes wish she had. Why can’t I just move on?
DEIDRE SAYS: The fact you are still hurt and angry over the loss of your marriage is understandable. You were betrayed in the worst way possible.
Counselling could help you to find peace and contentment with your new partner and leave the past behind. My support pack, How Counselling Helps, explains more.
Unfortunately, many people feel pressured to choose sides when a couple divorce.
Building up new friendships will help shift your focus from this pain.
DEAR DEIDRE: AFTER my ex gave me genital herpes, I worry my chances of dating someone new are ruined. I am devastated.
I am a 24-year-old single woman. I was with my boyfriend for two years, but I discovered through a mutual friend that he had been cheating on me all the time we were together.
And he gave me herpes. I am so ashamed because I know the stigma around this condition. The thought of telling someone new is so daunting, but saying nothing is putting them at risk of going through the same nightmare.
It is all I think about from the minute I wake up until I go to sleep at night.
It is really knocking my confidence as I’m scared about what any guy’s reaction will be. I think they are likely to run a mile.
I feel very alone and it’s never off my mind. My mum keeps telling me not to worry about it as it’s very common.
It is stopping me from even attempting to date and getting close to someone.
DEIDRE SAYS: There is no reason to avoid meeting new partners. You can have a safe sex life without passing on the virus.
Don’t feel ashamed about what has happened, herpes is a common virus.
You can get detailed advice from the Herpes Viruses Association (herpes.org.uk, 0845 123 2305), who can help you get on with your life.
My support pack, Raising Self-Esteem, will give you a confidence boost.
DEAR DEIDRE: A DRUNKEN game of truth or dare went disastrously wrong when I admitted to my husband that my ex had a bigger penis than him.
I bitterly regret blurting this out and, since then, our once regular, amazing sex life has virtually died out completely.
I am 33 and my husband is 35. We have been married for eight years.
He was so hurt and admitted that something inside him just switched off and destroyed his sex drive.
Apart from the lack of sex, we have a wonderful relationship.
We are very tactile and always have lots of kisses and cuddles.
He is my best friend and always calls me every day when he is at work to say that he loves me. I know that I have let him down terribly.
Since that night, sex has dwindled to a couple of times a year at best.
And it’s always me who initiates it when my husband has had a few drinks. He admits he probably needs help, but he never does anything about it.
It is so frustrating. I feel like I am being punished even though I have apologised for my mistake many times.
I am missing the sensual closeness and intimacy of sex. My friends all say we are lucky to be so in love and happy. If they knew the truth, they would be shocked.
DEIDRE SAYS: If your husband already had insecure feelings about his size, then your confession would intensify that.
You have apologised and I assume that you have never complained about your sex life before this.
Reassure your husband that being a great lover is about skill, not penis size, and you are more than happy.
Tell him how much you miss being intimate and want to get your sex life back to normal. My support pack on Penis Size will reassure him.
Watch what you drink in future, to avoid being insensitive.
OFFALY star Shane Lowry came flying out of the traps on Sunday and briefly looked like he might run away with the RBC Canadian Open.
BUT it didn’t last long as the Clara ace faded away at TPC Toronto.
The 2019 Open champion slammed through his opening four holes in five-under-par.
The overnight four-shot overnight gap evaporated as the Irishman grabbed the outright lead at Osprey Valley.
But he couldn’t keep the pedal down as he flatlined after the turn in Canada.
Lowry played his final 14 holes in two-over-par, eventually to sign for a three-under 67 on his final round.
That meant the Irishman finished on -13 for the week, which will likely be enough for a top-15 finish.
American Sam Burns set the clubhouse target with a stunning 62 to post -18 after finishing a couple of hours before the final groups signed off.
At time of publish, New Zealand’s Ryan Fox slammed in a 17-foot birdie putt on the final hole to force a playoff with Burns.
The winner of the PGA Tour’s RBC Canadian Open will receive $1,764,000 from the $9.8 million purse.
CRISTIANO RONALDO has added yet another trophy to his ever-bulging cabinet as Portugal beat Spain in an epic Nations League final via penalties.
Arsenal target Zubimendi broke the deadlock after a defensive mix-up, before Nuno Mendes levelled the scoring.
Mikel Oyarzabal then put La Roja back ahead with a sensational finish just before the break.
However, Cristiano Ronaldo popped up with a superb volley which sent the game to penalties.
And after Diogo Costa saved Alvaro Morata‘s penalty, Ruben Neves stepped up to secure Portugal‘s second Nations League triumph.
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PORTUGAL tasted Nations League glory for a second time with Cristiano Ronaldo playing a starring role – and Chelsea flop Alvaro Morata the villain.
After winning the inaugural 2019 edition, Roberto Martinez’s men are champions once more in a thrilling finale in Munich, fighting back twice to draw level against reigning European champions Spain.
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Ronaldo netted an ingenious equalising 61st minute volley to make it 2-2 for his 938th career goal and 138th for his country – but the 40-year-old watched the penalties from the bench, along with 17-year-old teenage superstar Lamine Yamal.
And Spain’s Morata missed his spot-kick for Ruben Neves to slot home the winner.
Both nations were vying to become the first to lift the Nations League twice.
A slow start was thrust into life by a Nico Williams whipped curler that just cleared the bar after 17 minutes – and four minutes later the Spaniards were ahead.
Yamal at the heart of it, his delicious cross was made a mess of by a scrambling Portugal defence, allowing soon-to-be Arsenal midfielder Martin Zubimendi to score just his second international goal.
Spain were 4-0 up after 55 minutes in their 5-4 semi thriller against France last week, but Ronaldo was not about to let that happen again as he burst in behind to spark an attack.
It ended with Mendes firing low into the bottom corner in the 26th minute, but not before a VAR check that judged Ronaldo to have timed his run to perfection.
The final say of the first half was Spain’s. Pedri with a superb reverse pass to tee up Mikel Oyarzabal in injury time – the man who broke English hearts in the Euros final in Berlin last summer producing another big goal in Munich.
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Martinez responded by bringing on Neves and Nelson Semedo at the break, and it almost had an instant impact as Bruno Fernandes had a 49th minute strike ruled out for offside.
An equaliser was coming and Ronaldo reacted first to a deflected looped cross that bamboozled Marc Cucurella for his eighth Nations League of the campaign.
He hobbled off with a muscular injury in the 88th minute, while Yamal was subbed in the 106th minute, as the game became niggly with a VAR red-check following a mass melee.
Goncalo Ramos, Vitinha, Bruno Fernandes and Nuno Mendes all slotted home their penalties before Neves became the hero.
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EVERY single day, every single penny paid in tax by enough workers to fill a city the size of Manchester goes toward just one thing.
Some 582,000 folk, including nurses, teachers, builders, drivers and shop workers, all striving and contributing their fair share for one goal . . .
Their entire income tax and National Insurance contributions hoovered up by the same mind-boggling government bill.
They are paying to keep migrants in hotels, often rather nice ones.
The National Audit Office puts the bill for asylum accommodation and support last year at an eye-watering £4.7billion.
And that’s before healthcare costs and the price of the thousands of officials processing claims are factored in.
Now, new analysis by former Office for National Statistics numbers man Jamie Jenkins reveals who is picking up the tab.
The mean average salary across all UK workers was £38,224 last year, generating an estimated £8,081 in tax per head.
Divide the hotel and support bill by that and you get 582,000 workers — almost exactly the population of the City of Manchester.
Or just over the size of Liverpool. Or bigger than Leicester or Leeds.
Last Tuesday, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper told MPs she was “deeply concerned about the level of money” being spent on hotels, adding: “We need to end asylum hotels altogether.”
But by the end of the week, her own department quietly admitted they are diverting another £2.2billion of money earmarked for overseas development assistance cash for hotels this year.
That’s basically the same amount as last year, despite shameless ministers sent out to insist on the airwaves that hotel use is falling and this Government has got a grip.
And the numbers blow away claims from politicians of all hues that we need a period of belt-tightening, with hard choices to be made.
Fair-minded voters — who believe in so-called sound money, restraint, spending within our means or whatever you want to call it — have every right to look upon this aghast.
And where the public might have had some sympathy over tough choices needing to be addressed, that argument is holed below the waterline by the seemingly endless magic money tree available for new arrivals to be housed while our veterans sleep on the streets.
Why can’t we spend more on our defence sooner rather than later, when we clearly have billions to spend on this?
Harry
The screeching U-turn on slashing Winter Fuel Payments is a case in point, after Labour MPs were hammered on the doorstep while campaigning in last month’s local elections.
Voters who were sympathetic towards the two-child benefit cap a few years ago are now looking — through the prism of asylum hotels — at a state that is willing to pay such sums towards foreign arrivals, rather than on hungry British kids.
And why can’t we spend more on our defence sooner rather than later, when we clearly have billions to spend on this?
Which puts a deeply unpopular and struggling Government in something of a bind.
How can Rachel Reeves preach fiscal responsibility while chucking such vast amounts of cash out the door?
As the Chancellor’s negotiations with Cabinet ministers ahead of Wednesday’s Spending Review go to the wire, it’s going to be a very hard sell that police and crime budgets need to be cut in the same department that is bleeding out cash on migrant hotels.
But the Home Office will see a reduction in their share of the pie, with Reeves playing hardball.
And while she will heavily play up this week that there will be no return to “austerity”, with some eye-catching investment announcements across the country in a bid to buy off angry voters eyeing up Reform, her fundamental problems have not changed.
Reeves’ attempts to cut the benefits bill are being met with fierce opposition from Labour MPs
Harry
The Chancellor has Labour MPs on one side demanding more cash in their areas, alongside furious Cabinet colleagues fighting cuts to their departments, while on the other side, the international bond markets, which keep the spending merry-go-around going, are looking at the numbers with deep suspicion.
Reeves’ attempts to cut the benefits bill are being met with fierce opposition from Labour MPs, armed with this very argument: Why should disabled constituents see their support cut while billions are handed to young men who have come here after passing through numerous safe countries?
The self-proclaimed Iron Chancellor was looking wobbly already after a series of U-turns, but if she is agreeing to billions more for the NHS and our Armed Forces, cuts are going to have to come from somewhere . . . and soon.
Her allies insist there will be some iron on Wednesday, yet until the Government fixes the hotels mess, I’m not sure they will receive much sympathy or praise from a furious public that sees the current priorities as completely bonkers.
And heaven knows how high Reform’s polling lead will be if the Chancellor decides tax hikes in the autumn to pay for this crazy spending are the right way forward.
THE row over trans people using women’s loos rumbles on after the Supreme Court ruling of the bleedin’ obvious: that there are only two sexes and women’s spaces need protecting.
That argument can be found in depth elsewhere, but more and more public places are making all their toilets gender-neutral.
Without going full Alan Partridge, that is having a major side-effect . . . queues.
Unlike the ladies, I can’t remember having to queue for the gents in a cafe, bar, club or theatre ever. Now it’s endless.
WE have all sent an angry message then regretted it the next morning – well, I certainly have.
But fair cop to Reform’s former chairman Zia Yusuf, who spectacularly stormed out of Nigel Farage’s party on Thursday night after furious backroom bust-ups.
He’s now back in a different role, having made up his differences behind the scenes.
Cue much social media mockery and crowing from Reform’s online enemies that the rag-tag bunch of surging upstarts couldn’t run a bath, let alone a country.
But I can’t help thinking there’s actually something quite grown up about throwing your hands up in the cold light of day and admitting you overcooked it and got it wrong.
I wonder if it might be more wishful thinking from Reform’s panicking opponents that any of this will really change the price of fish.
It’s hardly like either rival party – especially the Tories – have a leg to stand on when having a pop at others for squabbling.
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