Long-distance relationships are hard. You can call and talk on the phone, or chat over the Internet. But what if your lover is an alien?

Well, a Labour Party Councilman in Whitby, on the UK‘s Yorkshire coast, has managed to have a long-distance relationship, and even sired a baby. Even though he only sees his lover 4 times a year…and the lover is an alien.

WHITBY, England, June 19 (UPI) - A member of a town council in northern England says he has fathered a child with an alien who visits him four times a year.
Simon Parkes, a member of the Labor Party who sits on the council in Whitby on the Yorkshire coast, said many people think he is crazy, The Northern Echo reported. But he says his beliefs do not affect his work for his constituents.

Of course, his human wife is not too happy about this turn of events.

“What will happen is that we will hold hands and I will say ‘I’m ready’ and then the technology I don’t understand will take us up to a craft orbiting the earth,” he said. “My wife found out about it and was very unhappy, clearly. That caused a few problems, but it is not on a human level, so I don’t see it as wrong.”

He also said his mother was an alien. Maybe there is an alien pheromone that attracted his lover.