How much time completely alone at home do you have?

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Is it enough / too much / just right? And do you think it's important?

I noticed last lockdown (we are not in UK btw) that with the children home all the time I never had a minute where I was alone in the house any more. I usually have every morning (kids in nursery/school, husband at work), and I missed it so much. I hadn't realised it was so important to me to have this quiet time.

None. I get to run on my own a couple of times a week but I’d love an afternoon of peace.

Basically none. DD is at school, DS not in preschool yet, DH WFH upstairs. He's got a few Fridays off and he usually takes DD to school and then takes DS for a walk, but that's it. When DS starts preschool in Jan, DH will still be here working!

Last time I was at home alone was before DS was born. Nearly 2.5 years ago...

None. Always with the newborn. DS is at nursery 2 days, the rest with me. DP is wfh so he’s always around as well.

I have an appointment to get my nails done in December and the drive to the salon and back will be the first bit of alone time I’ll have had in months.

Can’t bloody wait.

Come new year and my gym membership is renewed I’ll be doing yoga and Pilates classes x3 a week and I don’t think I e looked forward to something quite so much for a long time.

None since march. I am beyond desperate for alone time.
DH has worked at home since march I go to work so only alone time I get is in the car. I now lock myself in bathroom just for some space.

I'm never technically alone in the house, except for around 10 minutes every few days when my bloke goes to the corner shop for fags. However, he sleeps all day, so it's a weird combination of being alone without actually being alone.

I would like an occasional evening completely alone in the house, but he never goes out.

I’m going to get an hour today. DH is taking dd to a medical appointment. It will be the first time in months. I also know DH will want to text me with updates constantly. Strangely, only I seem able to take her to an appt and just give him a summary update when we return. I’m going to try begging him to let me sit in silence, but I doubt he will succeed.

Loads

Work part-time. DH working upstairs. No kids. I love my life! I couldn't imagine have no time to myself whatsoever.

None.

For many, many years I didn’t ever have any time alone and it nearly destroyed my sanity.

Now I have every Friday between 9-4 alone in the house (most weeks) and I live for that time. I’m annoyed because this week one of the kids will be here all day and that will mean it’ll be two whole weeks until I can be on my own again.

None!

DH has been WFH since mid-March (previously worked FT in an office), and the rest of the time I have the DC at home.

DS1 is also home currently as his bubble were sent home for 14 days to self isolate.

TBH, I've adjusted now, but I nearly went mad earlier this year when everyone was home all the time. It was stifling and there was SO MUCH bloody housework to do. Now it's less.

Too much at the moment because DH is in hospital

It was none. I went insane.

Now I have every second evening shut in a room on my own while dh does bedtime. I put a cardboard box on my head and introvert and muck around on mumsnet

Far too much this year. DH and DD2 both out at work through both lockdowns, DD1 at uni. I’m WFH, get bored of own company day in, day out but try to get out for lunchtime walks with friends regularly. Strange times.

I used to get 2 days per week while the kids were at school. Since lockdown in March - none. Dh is wfh and will be for the forseeable. I'm slowly going mad .....

I’ve not had even 5 mins time completely alone in the house since mid March.

None. DP is unemployed and is always there. I love her dearly, but i really miss having some alone time.

Probably two days since March 😢 I'm a bit of a 'loner' of sorts and need space. Its hard.

Not enough in covid. I used to have quite a bit, more than enough.
Can't wait till ds's are back in school and I have the house to myself for a bit.

Zero. Unless you count the 30 mins I get up before everyone else to shower and make 3 sets of lunch.
I'm first to leave, and last to get hone (until DH starts traveling)

None and I really want some. DH is retired and at home all day. Even when he goes out he looks sad if I don’t go too!

I have Wednesdays off. It was agreed with DH when I went back to work after 2nd mat leave that we'd put DS2 into nursery 6 days a week and DS1 would be at school so I'd have Wednesdays to myself. I find I really need alone time but since DH has been WFH a lot more I'm rarely getting it and I find it oppressive. I just love to potter round the house on my own doing things in my own time without having to talk/answer anyone or make food or drinks for anyone but me. So normally I have just enough but not recently.

DH and I are both WFH so just the 20mins when he takes DS to school. But in reality we are working at opposite ends of the house 2 floors apart so we're not exactly crowding each other. And it's nice to have lunch together, reminds me of when we were students working in different buildings and we'd meet in the park for lunch.

In the summer DD1 met up with some friends and DH took the younger two DC to the park and I had 2 hours with no DC in the house for the first time in months and it was bliss, I read Diary of Provincial Lady in the hanging chair in the garden.

None. DH and I are both WFH although DS is at school all week. DH, however, is constantly holed up in his home office so I do feel quite alone all day til I go to pick DS up.

Literally none. 2 preschool aged DC. Between 7am and 7pm I'm with toddlers demanding my constant attention. And then after 7pm I'm usually with DH.

I'm exhausted. What I'd give for an entire day just on my own 🤤 I do get some respite at the weekend when DH takes DC out for a morning or afternoon.

DH is part time wfh and part time just at home annoying the crap out of me. He does 1 school run which is about 45 mins, but 3 times a week just as he leaves DD comes home. It's driving me mad.