escape affair
Escape Affair: A synonym for the phrase, ‘escape sex’, this describes the desire for a person to seek out romance and sexual relations with an ‘outside neutral party’ that helps them forget what they are trying to escape from.
Veronica was so frustrated after years of work on the Penske File, that she hated her work, her colleagues and even her husband. She needed an ‘Escape Affair’ To try and mask her feelings, she needed to escape with someone who didn’t want to talk about her problems. So she started banging the milkman!