Does your partner call you during his work day?

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I am a SAHM, with a baby and a 4 year old. Been on lots of walks lately with friends who are also mums at home with babies or kids at school. Nearly all of them get a phone call from there partners while they are at work, just to say hello and see how things are going. My partner doesn't do this and when I told him all my friends get calls he said it is weird.

Does your partner/ DH/DW call you?

Yes, twice a day but he works away Sunday to Friday, I'm a SAHM to 2 dc with ASD. Sometimes he's the only adult I get to speak to for days at a time, and he likes to hear what the dc have been up to and I enjoy hearing about his day at work.

Yeah he used to when I was on mat leave and even now we will either talk or text throughout the day depression on how busy we are.

Yes, it's usually a 2 minute call just to say hello and to see how my day is going.

If DW is at work on her own and I'm at home she will ring for a chat. But that's not often. Other than that only if its important, or when DWs mum went in to her work and screamed at her and it really upset DW.

I’ve just counted and we’ve had 47 WhatsApp and 15 phone calls today 😂. We do run a business together and a lot of it is work related 😆

No, a couple of texts asking how baby is etc. We would both assume something was urgent if we had a missed call from the other.

His job is very hands on though and doesnt take a lunch break really.

Very rarely calls and only if a reason. A text at some point most days but not always.

No, unless good reason.
Your friends sound needy/competitive/ full of BS

Your friends sound needy/competitive/ full of BS

Eh? It's the men ringing the women, why are they needy?

No, we both focus on work.

Tried to call daily when she was on maternity, now it’s WhatsApp back and forth a few times.

Most lunchtimes he calls to say hi. I call him when I'm in the car to come home, having text him as I leave the office. He does the same. Plus other texts during the day. 25 years together. It's nice - I like to hear his voice. Still makes me smile when his name pops up.

[quote gottakeeponmovin]@WhoNeedsShoesAnyway WTAF ? He rings you to wake you up. Don't you have an alarm clock ? 😂😂 he manages to get himself up - why can't you ?[/quote]
I do have an alarm, and I am usually awake! He just uses that as an excuse really! Its like an in-joke. On days when i am not awake it is because I am operating on about 3 or 4 hours sleep only.
And I wake him up each morning when I get home 😉

No, very rarely. We both hate talking on the phone. I actually panic if he phones me unexpectedly 😂

Nope I’m busy in work and I don’t have time for calls, occasional messages but not a regular daily thing at all.
But we don’t have kids to check up on... friends with kids do seem in more contact which is understandable.

He's working from home since covid, but before that he'd text during the day, and sometimes call on a lunch break if he was really missing me, which wasn't that often
He's pretty busy though, and if he's in meetings all day, I won't hear from him at all.

No, we never have done, neither of us has any privacy at work for chatting in any case, I'd feel self-conscious having personal chats in a shared office. On my at home days (work p/t) it's the same. The odd message about what time will you be home etc.
you be home or has a parcel arrived. I used to work with someone who checked in and out with her DH several times a day by phone, we all used to think it was a bit odd.

We have WhatsApp messages most days. I ring him in an emergency.

My husband would call when he had a break, mostly lunchtime. Just a quick 5 minute ‘how’s things’ call. He was a hospital consultant who also had to concentrate on work....but always managed to say ‘hello’ at some point in his busy day

Back in the days I worked in an office full time (12 years ago), no never. When it was just me WFH I didn't either. We are both WFH now, so possibly more chat.

When allowed, I travel all over the country for work. I'll check in with a text when I get to the hotel and when I leave to travel home. Other than that, I'm in work mode.

Well I guess technically at the moment yes he does call me when he is on his break at work as he is in the Navy. When he is away he is constantly on standby on the ship. Even then it isn’t everyday- We can go days without talking then but that is his job. When he is based at home and just going in for normal hours no he doesn’t call.

@MrsRogerLima

Urgh no, I used to work with a woman who spoke to her husband every lunchtime without fail.

What on earth they had to say to each other every day I don't know. They lived in each other pockets

I speak to my partner not once but TWICE a day

It's only a couple of minutes each time but he knows I'm at home
On my own with a toddler (and running a business) and that it can be a bit lonely sometimes. He just phones to check we are ok,
Says hello to the toddler. We have more then enough to talk about -
Pretty mindless stuff like what we are having for tea and general chit chat. He's done it since we met as teenagers, snd I would hate it if he broke tradition. My parents, who have been married forty years have spoken to each other every lunchtime since mobiles were a thing.

Nothing needy, nothing sinister.

We do. My partner works shifts so we often don’t get to see each other awake! He calls me, as he can only use his phone on his break and the time changes pretty much daily. He will text first if I am working to check I am free.
It’s nice, just a quick hello, catch up, what’s for tea type chat, although he is usually more interested in what the dog has been up to than me...!

Yes because he's able to as works on building sites so not stick in an office itkwim.We speak a couple of times a day which we both like to do.

Hes not a phone call person but before covid he would message me on google hangouts most days. We both had hangouts open on our computers but appreciate a lot of companies dont allow that.