How much do you enjoy time on your own?

[desolcat]

Personally I really love spending time alone, I do have a husband who I live with but he is generally out at work most days 8 - 6pm and I rarely see or talk to anyone in that time and I bloody love it!

I need time alone more than I need time with other people. I find other people generally draining and need time to recuperate. Classic introvert.

I really like it too. Live on my own again now but it's time out of the house I often prefer being alone - if I'm going to the theatre or cinema or gallery or something. I like wandering about at my own pace going exactly where I want, people watching, looking around me without the distraction of company.

But I love spending time with people too.

I need absolutely loads of solitude.

I LOVE it. I am dying for the house to myself, between 3 kids, WFH husband and builders I haven’t been alone in the house for about a year.

Had a gorgeous day alone yesterday - countryside walk, lunch in a cafe, a few errands etc.

I am so happy alone and always have loads of things to fill my time! Have no problem going to theatre, cinema, museum etc alone

Absolutely love it. Had a decorator in this week who finished a day early, both kids (one struggling with EBSA and both with complex needs/ health issues) in school today, and DH working a middle day shift. I’m having a laid back, pottering around type of day. I’m a natural introvert and recharge alone, but my alone time has reduced significantly over the past few years. When it happens, I bask in it!

Classic introvert here. Semi-retired (i.e planning a return to work at some point) and have had days when I think 'exactly HOW long is it since I talked to anyone? oh well, never mind.'

Love my own company. Always have from a small child.

I need it, I'm up at 3.30am and no-one gets up until around 6ish. Sometimes the dogs join me but they just lay at feet and don't speak!

I love and crave and need it. God knows why I got a partner and two kids as now I never get it. I’m at that stir-crazy point in maternity leave where I’m dying to be alone; started settling DS into nursery then came home for the first solitude in 13 months and the bloody cleaner was there, on the wrong day. Go awaaaaaaaay.

DP thinks my difficult days are the ones in which he commutes, because then all the school run, bedtime stuff is on me. It’s actually the days he WFH, because he likes to wander the house, and inevitably finds wherever I am, and ruins the baby naptime solitude moment by existing near me. 😭

I daydream about him returning to the office full time while I get to stay WFH (I did it pre-covid so it does feel he’s invading my territory).

I absolutely love it and need it. I always have done even as a child.

I enjoy it but I’m conscious it can be easy to say that when I have a partner and friends. Being alone by choice is different to loneliness and isolation.

I hate it! Now divorced and live alone as kids are adults. I Did have a non live in partner but we very recently split. He was here most days/nights though.
I have to at least speak to a few people every day (even if just on the phone) and see at least one friend/sister/parent/adult child every day. Otherwise I feel lonely and detached from 'life'. I'm semi retired and not working at the moment so crave company.
I've been ill with flu for the past week so haven't been out but I've spoken to friends and family every day. I really wasn't meant to live alone.
Yesterday I spoke to, on the phone, my daughter, my sister, my elderly mum mum, my elderly dad and three friends. All of whom I've made plans to see as soon as I'm better.
Was supposed to see one friend for lunch today and another tonight but I've had to cancel as still full of germs. It's horrible but I'm grateful for my cats.
Hope to be better by Sunday and be able to see people again!
I have learned to enjoy (tolerate) time alone. I read a lot, meditate, watch tv, practise yoga with YouTube, listen to podcasts, walk, go to the gym etc but it's a whole lot more enjoyable with company. I envy those who enjoy being by themselves as I'm rubbish at it.

I love it. I am happily married, but I go a bit nuts if I don't get enough time alone. If my husband goes away for a weekend, I just love having 48 hours when I don't see or speak to a single person. I also sometimes holiday alone too.

Absolutely ADORE time alone. I thrive on it.
When they say ‘humans are social animals’ I think not me…I don’t need people at all.

Right now I have DH and DC, I feel like I’m always looking for opportunities to be by myself. I hope I can live alone one day. DH could live next door to me if he wants and we could see each other twice a week - that would be enough for me 😀

I also volunteer work at a charity shop two days a week which is great as I meet so many people and enjoy hearing about their lives as many come in every day and enjoy a natter. I guess I just love people!

Very much
It's essential for my mental wellbeing

I bloody love it. Absolutely and utterly love it. The peace of it.

I've realised that before I was 45yo, I never had the chance to try it. Child, then uni halls, then flat shares with friends; then with boyfriend, then husband.

It wasn't till I got divorced a few years ago that I got the chance to experience it.

Never say never, but as of this moment, I don't think I'll ever want to live full time with anyone ever again.

You are me: I love wfh; I love when the DC and the DH are out at school/work; I love days out by myself; I love dining alone at lunch on days out.

All this helps me enjoy the time with family more. It’s really a signifyer of being a grown up as for me.

Need my couple of hours for my hobby and a good walk most days. Puts me in a good frame of mind.

Love it. But I never get the chance , very rare and maybe if it was every day I’d become lonely.

Same. The company I love best (I have a lovely husband and two adult sons who I adore) is my own x

I love spending time with my husband and miss him when he's at work, and I love spending the days with my son. But that hour/hour and a half nap time when it's just me is BLISS.

I love it. People make me feel agitated or draining a lot of the time and I need days to myself to recover after socialising.

I was an only child for 11 years so used to solitude and happy in my own company. I've done the marriage, children, relationships....now I'm done.

I spend days on my own [retired], never stuck for something to do. I feel at peace, and free...to be myself, give myself what I need, no real stress and no one else's opinion or compromises to deal with. Lovely.

I need both. I really enjoy time on my own when everyone's out of the house, but I wouldn't want too much of it. I've never lived alone (used to flat share with friends before moving in with DH) and I don't think I would like it.

I LOVE IT.
Im struggling without it tbh. My dad went blind in lockdown so I moved in with him to keep a literal eye on him. My partner is a 3 hour commute away so I go to hers pretty much every weekend.
This means that I never get a day or night to myself, and ive gone from living in my own flat with my dog in glorious solitude to absolute zero unless im housesitting.
I get 6 hours of alone time a week when im driving.

I do enjoy it but I think many of us should remember that anything with a novelty factor is going to be appealing.

I lived alone for twenty years and it wasn’t all great. Now I have two very young children and am literally never alone!

I am looking forward to what will hopefully be a nice balance soon.