What does everyone even do in the evenings?

Read a book
Housework
Attend to pets
Write an essay for a course I'm doing
Prepare for work the next day
Drink rum

I live with my 19 year old DD. One of us (usually me as she has college most days) cooks dinner then settled down to whatever series we are watching. I might do some crocheting at the same time, and she might do some of her artwork for college (she's doing a standalone Art Foundation diploma). When she goes up to bed I take the dogs out for a walk then a bit of tidying then bed, where I read for a bit.
When my husband was alive it was similar but later as he didn't get home til 8. Dinner and chat then a series.
Nighttime is chill time in this household! The days are busy enough.

We eat dinner together, no phones etc allowed, just talking.
We take the dogs out. Maybe relax with a film. Tonight apparently there’s football on, so we will be watching that! Try and relax really as my work day is pretty full on. Generally early to bed as we are up early with the dogs.

Watch TV, get takeaway, sit and chill in the garden with the animals, mess around online, watch a movie or two, play with the dog - all sorts.

I work 3-5 evenings a week but otherwise once the dishwasher is loaded and the kids are in bed, it’s a film/series, look at our phones, tea and snacks before bed. Sounds pretty boring but I love it.

Waiting for the football this evening 😁

Build a fort? With your partner after kids have gone to bed? Surely that's a do with kids use?!

90 minutes of personal care....I'm intrigued. I think that deserves a thread of its own.

Mine is brush teeth, take off make up (if applicable) and bit of moisturiser if I remember.

I bet you look lovely.

Would love to say, play board games, knit, read novels, write in a journal but in reality, we eat. watch crap TV- (Netflix or similar) and argue about what fun we used to have!

We're DINKY's

I finish work about 5pm
Get to the stables for 5:30pm
Get home from there around 8/8:30pm
Partner gets home around 8pm after doing overtime or private work
One of us cooks dinner whilst one does any tidying/chores
Eat around 9:30pm
Wash Up
Watch TV together
Get to bed around 11:30pm ready for 5:30am alarm

We don't usually manage to sit down til 830 and we go to bed at 930!!!
Usually just watch a bit of tv.

On a weekend we stay up a bit later and will either watch a film, comedy show, play music or a game

You do that every evening?

Normal evenings:

Eat, watch film/TV, play video games, do exercise video, go out to sport club, odd bits of housework/gardening or go out for the big shop.

Date nights:

Eat fancier food either home cooked or takeaway, more interesting or anticipated film with candles lit for lighting, play board games.

Not overly exciting but just enjoy spending quality time with him really. Proper dates we go out for, usually dinner, gigs, cinema, cocktail bars, historical visits, forest walks, crazy golf, bowling, escape rooms etc.

Swim
Run
Walk
Pilates class
Ferry teens to cricket matches
Ferry teens to music things
Volunteer with scouts
Catch up on work
Revise for professional exams

But mostly, doom scroll the internet.

Work, go to quiz night, meet friends, travel planning, messing around on internet, read a book. Think I must be only person who doesn't do tv/ films lol

After dinner, I clean up in the kitchen and help with any of the DCs' homework and prepare for the morning. Do a few housey jobs until it's time to put them to bed. Then open laptop and work while gazing enviously across the room at DP, reading on the sofa with a glass of wine, or playing the guitar or browsing the sports before he shuffles off to bed at a sensible hour. I continue working until my bedtime, roundabout now. Wash and brush teeth and go to bed, and do a couple of Wordles and 10 minutes on MN to wipe my mind clean. Night after night. Teaching is not for the fainthearted, nor lovers of leisure or sleep.

Kids go to bed about 10pm (not older either FML) so I go to bed. The one who does the easier kid may be able to sit and watch an hour of TV for an hour.

Sitting watching TV or just hanging out with my partner is a distant memory.

Single,Retired.Swim every evening,then walk the dog.Watch Netflix.

Our dcs go to bed relatively late, so we don't get much time to relax. We do most of the chores while the dc are in bed so we can do more fun things with them during the day - so meal prep, cooking, packed lunches, cleaning, hanging laundry, tidying, sewing repais and uniform labelling. All the other family admin - banking, emails, booking events and holidays, online shopping. Some DIY if it's not too noisy. Reorganising cupboards and rooms.

Not much time for leisure activities in the evenings. Neither of us go out in the evening, we don't want to use a babysitter or have one of us looking after both dcs while the other goes out. DH sometimes watches TV, I prefer to browse on my phone. Will get more time for my hobbies when dc2 goes to school as I work pt.

Weekends - later dinner and tv; couple of drinks; later bed

DS gets to bed around 9:30pm, after that if neither of us heads out with friends DP will tend to work and or watch some TV, I'll tend to work and or play games. Occasionally we'll binge a series we're both interested in but unless I'm really enjoying it watching TV feels a bit too passive for me. I'll do it when I'm too tired for anything else.

By the time midnight rolls round that 2.5 hours isn't very long anyways.

Early dinner
Teenager lifts
Tidy kitchen
Get lunches ready
Usually relax after 10 - we all watch TV for 30mins. DC bed. I read for 30mins or DH and I watch TV. I go to bed 11pm

Eat
Game
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Bed

If it was summer I'd be out weeding and pottering. However as it's late autumn weather wise I'm sketching and painting and watching TV.

During the lockdowns we turned our garage into a bar and our garden into a more leisure space.

We "meet" in the bar after work and have a wind down drink whilst we share the day, then its the usual get the tea on, throw on a wash, do some chores. Dinner and stuff is over by 8pm when I go out for my evening walk with a friend, he will be doing his stuff -whatever that may be - and we join again around 9pm where we will watch something we are both following or go sit in the hot tub and sing along to cheesy music from our youth :)

Date nights are the same as a previous poster, a few drinks, nibbles, and watching concerts online or we will go play a few games of pool or cards

Once a week ( at least ) we either have friends to ours or we go to friends. Very casual, work clothes are ok, no need to make an effort, its the having a bit of fun thats important

IMHO Its ok to have different interests from your partner and its ok to go find time to do them, but its also important to have some shared time thats not just "life" Our hour together in the evening after work, just us, is important to both of us. We do our serious talking then, theres just the two of us and no distractions