Warning: This article contains spoilers for And Just Like That… season 3, episode 1.

Fans of Sex and the City and And Just Like That… have seen Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and Aidan (John Corbett) go through a lotover the years, and the third season of AJLT will be no different.

At the end of season 2, the on-and-off couple agreed on an unconventional deal. Despite Carrie buying a beautiful Gramercy Park apartment for them to move in together, Aidan decided to stay in Virginia because his 14-year-old son Wyatt was having a hard time at school.

As he delivered the news, he asked Carrie to wait five years. By then, Wyatt will be off to college, and he’ll finally be able to leave his life behind and move to the Big Apple to be with her. Carrie was surprised, but she didn’t exactly say no. “No matter what happens… this was not a mistake,” Carrie said the next day as they said goodbye, per TVLine.

So, as the third season of the show came around this week on May 29, fans might’ve been asking themselves what’s really going on between them. Are they breaking up? Are they going long-distance?

If episode one is any indication, Carrie and Aidan aren’t breaking things off entirely. While they were keeping it cool by only sending postcards to one another at first, Aidan then called Carrie in the middle of the night.

“I miss you so much,” he says when she picks up. Then, when she called him out for breaking his own rules by calling, Aidan, who’s in his truck in the middle of a field, says, “All of that went out the window after this third beer.”

Quickly, their convo goes from pleasantries to full-onphone sex. “You know how much I love you, Carrie,” he says, while asking her to touch herself. Then, right when they were both getting into it, Aidan buzzes the horn of his truck. “I scared myself, I hit the horn with my knee,” he says. “I might’ve s– my pants a little.”

After that, while Aidan gets right back into it, Carrie’s understandably turned off. “C’mon, we can get back there,” he said. “Can we?” Carrie asks back, laughing.

As she struggles to get back in the mood, she exchanges eye contact with her adorable new cat, Shoe. The mood is decidedly gone for her, but Aidan keeps going and finishes. Carrie, for her part, fakes it.

Later in the episode, Carrie summarizes the experience to best friends Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon). “He said he missed me and we had phone sex,” she says. “More specifically, he had phone sex, I stopped midway. The kitty was watching, her little eyes were so curious. So when he went there, I faked it.”

While both Charlotte and Miranda agreed that faking it was no big deal, after all a study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior in 2010 stated that up to 80% of women have admitted to faking it with a sexual partner, per NBC News, Carrie couldn’t get past it.

So, she comes clean to Aidan in the last scene of the episode.

“I have a confession, I wasn’t totally there with you the other night and I said I was,” she tells Aidan in a call at the end of the episode. She then tries to start up phone sex once again, this time asking him to touch himself.

“Uh, Carrie, I can’t do this right now,” Aidan then replies. “I’m in bed with Wyatt, he’s asleep, he had a bad night.” Embarrassed and speechless, Carrie apologizes and almost immediately turns off the call.

We’ll add here that this isn’t just the show and its creator, Michael Patrick King, not knowing how to portray phone sex. After all, longtime viewers of SATC might remember Miranda’s phone sex adventures back in season 3, episode 10. Things got steamy over the phone, and we all wondered if we were doing it wrong all along.

But, this time around, the show wanted to see a couple struggle through it. And while And Just Like That… has gotten hate over the years for being “unrelatable,” this storyline between Carrie and Aidan is anything but. In a 2018 study from Elite Daily, 48.6% of respondents said that they never had phone sex over the phone. So, unsurprisingly, countless long-distance couples out there can relate to struggling to get the knack of it, at least in the beginning. When is the right time to get into the mood? What if the signal glitches? What if my pet is looking at me?

These are all questions that LDR couples around the world may be asking themselves. And while some couples might eventually become pros, others, like Carrie and Aidan, might need a little work.

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