„Someone had thrust a knife into my heart, that's how it felt. Before me lay the ruins of my life." In 2008 Annette learned that the man of her dreams, to whom she had been happily married for 15 years, was cheating on her. "All this time I loved him, trusted him and would never have thought of cheating on him. And him? For four years he had been leading a double life, with a good friend of mine. I had to re-examine all my values. I threw the principle of faithfulness in the trash! To forget my pain, I decided to, for two years, five men simultaneously to have. I wished to hold all the strings in my own hands, to never make myself so vulnerable again. With three of them, the risk was too great that I would get hung up on one of them again.

But with five it should work!" Honesty was her first duty, each of her lovers learned before their first night together about her Five-Lover Project, but they didn't know each other. Annette deliberately went on the hunt for men: She got herself sexy clothes and a new hairstyle, went out on the town with female friends and published dating profiles on the Internet. An ex-boyfriend from pre-marital times thought the idea was funny and was immediately ready to participate as a reactivated lover. Next she began affairs with a neighbor, a friend's brother and even dared to go on blind dates in hotels with strangers from the internet. "At times I had three lovers, sometimes five at the same time. They were real mini-sex relationships.