I am sitting in my car, in the carpark of my dental practice, red in the face, embarrassed as all hell.

So a bit about me, I am a recently divorced mother of 2, and lets just say since my divorce, I have had a few good samaritans, of the male variety, make sure that I am not lonely ;)

Yesterday, I had one such samaritan over, keeping me company and ensuring that my bed was nice and warm in these cold months.

This morning, I had a dental check and clean, so I drop the kids off at school, go to the dentist with the plan of going to the gym straight after. I was the second patient of the day so I was called in fairly quickly, and was greeted by a young but muscular male dentist and a hot blonde nurse, the sexual tension in the air was obvious I could almost smell it.

Everything goes fine, small talk a few jokes, questions about Christmas plans and my check up was fine. The nurse leaves the room to get something prepared for the clean, so me and the dentist were alone in the room. He asks me to open my mouth again and feels my soft palate. He then goes quiet and sensitively asks whether I've been a victim of SA because there is bruising on my soft palate. I obviously say no and stupidly mention I had a lad over yesterday, could that cause it. He smirks and said "well it can, other things can cause it too, but if it is that, then at least you know you are doing a great job"

Background: when I was in college (end of secondary school in the UK) a rumour went around that I was shit in bed, because when I sucked a guy off, all I would do was hold his tip in my mouth and wank him off, so since then, I've been an enthusiastic blower, never wanting to be ridiculed again, I, as a partner put it, "try to suck the soul out of him", so to get objective evidence that I do a good job is validating.

Back to today, I was feeling such a mixture of emotions, but oddly defensive, so you know what they say, the best form of defence is offence, so I immediately ask "so have you been leaving bruises at the back of Abi's (the nurse) throat" almost regretting opening my mouth as soon as the words come out. I could tell he was interested but brushed it off saying no, and that she may have a BF.

Abi comes back into the room and we continue with the clean, now whenever my mouth wasn't being invaded, I would quip remarks about how strong the dentist was, even at one point asking Abi whether she could resist men with big forearms because I couldn't...she agreed.

By the end of it, we were both flirting with him, fairly obviously, and it worked because he offered me a free teeth whitening kit. He took the impression of my teeth and then went to sort it out, leaving me with Abi. I was a lot more direct this time, immediately saying, "gosh I could smell the sex in the room when I walked in" to which she laughed saying she wished, but apparently Dr Josh is very by the book, not even the type to hug patients because it could be inappropriate.

He comes back in and we finish off the treatment, as I was getting out of the chair, I offer him a hug, which he duly accepts, I whisper "shes into you" before looking at Abi and smirking, mouthing, "he's all yours"

If you are Abi's boyfriend, I do apologise