If you have grown-up children, how do you spend your evenings/weekends?

[Jazzicatz]

Just that really? I’m 53, with a younger partner, but we never go out in the evenings. If you are of a similar age with older children, how do you spend your evenings?

Weekdays Dh gets home at 8pm, eat and watch an hour of tv before bed or meet up separately with friends.
Usually something planned for us both - go to a pub, restaurant, play etc

I work 4 days a week.
as posted earlier I do a yoga or PT class, mon-Thursday evening. Saturday morning either yoga or park run. Sunday a long walk, normally with DH.
I can’t bear being stuck in the house !

Thank you for starting this thread @Jazzicatz My evenings have been dominated by dc so long, and I’m not quite out of that stage yet, but it’s really cheered me up reading about all these lovely options.

We both still work full time - Me (50) DH (54)

M - Gym
Tu - PT
W - Walk & Coffee after work
Th - Gym
F - Pub together
S - See friends

I'm ill health retired. I'm 53 and my children are 35 and 24. I've had a stroke, have MS and epilepsy.
I go on a lot of cruises, maybe 5 or 6 a year (month long cruises). I go to the gym 5 days a week and go out for a coffee or a drink. I'm tired a lot of the time by the evening and to be honest, all of my friends work and then dont go out in the evening.

I like being at home in the evenings, pottering about, chatting to DH, watching TV or when the weather is nice sitting with the door open listening to the birds singing.
Do enjoy going to see something at the theatre maybe once a month, sometimes a meal out.

I'm not very sociable, I would find some people's evening activity exhausting! Interesting how people are so different

I go to a music group, Pilates and running. Dh cycles.
Together we go for walks (usually with a pub or cafe built in en route) see friends either by entertaining, going to their houses or going out. Cinema infrequently. We should do more but I work long hours and enjoy being in watching a good series or reading just as much as going out.

I work full time over 3 days and husband works full time twilight shifts. So generally we don’t spend evenings together In fact we can go days without actually seeing each other. However we go away at least once a month often more to see live music. It’s a priority for us. Means we get to spend quality time together doing something we enjoy.

Our adult DC have left home and we’re mid fifties. We do a mixture of the following:

Gym x 3 a week
Swim
Go out for a meal
Go for an evening walk
Watch the next episode of a series we’re following together
Read
I might have an evening with my DSis, DH might go out with a colleague or ex colleague for a drink.

Weekends:
We live on the outskirts of a big city so often go in and do something cultural like a gallery or exhibition.
Shopping
Country walk (which we have to drive to first!)
Spend time with friends
Go to the pub and watch a football or rugby game together whilst having a drink/meal
Facetime our kids/parents
Gardening
DIY

We have a lovely life!

I am retired now (dh is still working) but I was doing 3 of the (now) 4 things I do in the evenings when I was working still.

I can't imagine just sitting at home every evening. But I've been the same all my adult life. Even when the dc were tiny, we both ring fenced one evening each to go to something that wasn't work and where we weren't just 'Mum' or 'Dad'.

We do different things on different evenings. A mixture of hobbies, volunteering, interest groups, and meetings - often planning for the volunteering.
Weekends there is Church, and watching sports, or going for walks, or going to things like Christmas Fetes or Summer fetes, or open days at things. Just somewhere to get out the house , have a bit of a wander around, and a cuppa, often whilst supporting someone else's fundraising efforts.

Plus (because we know lots of people from lots of things we do) going to parties or BBQs or fundraiser social things, or even weddings or anniversary dos. Or out for a meal with people or perhaps to watch something one of our friends is in.

The thread title asked evenings/weekends.

I work 4 days, DH works FT and we have one DC at home / one at uni. We do a lot of things separately but a lot together too. Neither of us minds if the other goes out without them, my family are all at the pub without me tonight but I went to my yoga class earlier and felt like relaxing afterwards

God some of you are busy!