How much time completely alone at home do you have?

[ExpectTheWorst]

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.

I'm sorry @fucknuckle. That must be very hard, feeling so unseen

Hardly any. Kids are at school but husband and I are both working from home. Typing this as I sit in the car waiting for ballet to be over. Just had 45 mins of solitude, peace and quiet.

A fair bit, but we don’t have dc and my DH works shifts. Some days I don’t see him for almost a week so when I do see him, it’s usually pretty nice!

@fucknuckle I'm sorry, loneliness and depression is truly awful

No children.

I WFH Tues-Fri and while I speak to colleagues or businesses on the phone, I am home alone 8:30-6pm during the week.

I go a bit crazy and end up talking to the cats!

I have none. I would love to have just a couple of hours.

Very little. Dh is working from home.

I volunteer to lock up once a week at work, which I can draw out to having a good half an hour alone. It's bliss. I really need it.

I'm divorced, so 2-4 nights a month when DS is at his dad's. I don't work from home so I'm not there during the day.

None, we have two small babies (foster parents so they are closed in age, 7 months and 1yr old) and DP has pancreatic cancer and is three weeks post Whipples so I have no time to myself but I don't mind because I know the alternative is that DP dies and I will have as much time as I want alone.

None , dp still wfh then kids always here . I miss my own company .

Not enough! DH's office has said home working till at least March.

However he does take the kids fishing every so often at the weekend, so I get some time then. If I pack them up with sandwiches and enough cake they can be gone for a couple of hours. And it is bliss.....

Not enough! DH and I both at home during the day. I do go for walks on my own but being alone in the house is a rarity.

I think it depends, if you have no tim ed alone and have no end in sight I sometimes get itchy feet to just get out and have time to think, even a five minute walk, whereas eg holidays coming up I'm excited for them to be there all the time. The difference is my youngest is 6 so at some stage over the night I'll get some time to myself after eldest goes to bed

Absolutely none in well over a year.
There is always at least one child and DH in the house, usually 3 more children apart from school hours.
I crave a night of peace but then feel guilty for it. Plus there's nowhere to go!

None. Its exhausting. Utterly.

Loads but only because I have 50/50 contact with xh. So from when get in from work at about 4.30 2 days a week, all of sunday every fortnight and half a Saturday every fortnight...I love being with my dc but also love my me time, obviously I often choose to do things with people so not completely alone for half the week but I do what suits me

About six hours a day.

I work part time due to autism and it's absolutely essential for mental health. I would suffer serious sensory overload otherwise.

Not in the house, though I get up a good hour or more before anyone else and that’s my peace and quiet. I’m staying with my dad at the moment and he has the telly on constantly, but we don’t like the same programmes. I would love to have a few evenings to myself where I can sit on the sofa watching what I want rather than squirrelling myself away in my room to watch things on the iPad.

Desperate for my own space but it’s going to be a while yet.

I have worked from home for the last five years - bloody love it.

So I am usually at home 8-4 for 5 days a week. It's great.

My DH is a homebird and rarely goes out apart for work, we have one teenage DD but the house is big enough for us to spread out so we never feel on top of each other.

Two hours since March. It's driving me slightly mad.

None and I miss it!
Sadly I'm going to struggle to get it back as DH has been made redundant so he is here every single bloody minute.

He seems to be enjoying it so far, helping me with "thoughtful" gestures like taking pans out of the dishwasher to make more room in it, turning heating off when he thinks it's not needed and closing all the internal doors and, oh, how I am enjoying having someone to advise me on jobs I've done for years!

This year none. I hate it. I love my family but I used to have at least one full day alone every week. Now dh and i both work from home. Dh very nearly went on a 10 day business trip at the start of this month. When it didn't happen I had a little cry (privately!). I do miss my alone time.

It's actually the reason I stay at reading until 1am - at least I feel a bit alone as noone is talking to me!

Too much really, well almost all the time, except odd weekend, although getting used to it. Kids away at boarding school and I am sposed to be overseas with DH but Covid has put the dampeners on that, as with everything. Got dogs though and see people I know out on dog walks most days, so that is nice. Was terribly lonely last 2 years and weirdly now am getting used to it. I will be one of them finding it hard to go out again.

I used to crave alone time when kids were little though and always home. You always want what you haven't got, that is the trouble!

Sorry you are feeling like that @fucknuckle wish I could say something more helpful.

None. DH has been working from home since march and I retired last year. The worst part is that his job entails talking loudly on the phone for 90% of the time and he gets arsey if I make noise. Come dinner time I can barely speak because I don't want him to reply, I'm so sick of hearing his voice. I'm on Mumsnet now coz he's asleep and the silence is bliss. Before lockdown he used to be out at gym or karate 3 hours most nights and some whole Sundays.

To make things even worse, his office has closed and he's been made a permanent home worker