What do adults without children do on weekends

[Curiousmum69]

I seem to have forgotten.

Other than shopping. Everything feels child orientated. Or I've just forgotten how to be an adult over the last 18 years.

Lie in
Out for brunch
Cinema
Sex
Food festival or similar
Wine bar
Out for dinner
Take dog to beach
Bit of shopping
Netflix
Mine are 22 and 20 so the youngest still comes back in uni hols. Its fab.

This weekend I have:

Food shopping, and cooking some nice relaxed meals
Parkrun, followed by another 5k run
Volunteered at junior Parkrun
Volunteered at the local science festival and met liz bonin
Saw leonardo da Vinci drawings at museum, and the tropical ravine
Had a fancy g'n't in a cosy pub watching the rugby
Dog walking
Guitar plucking

Sleep.

What about a new hobby OP?
And yy to making more friends who want to meet up at weekends.

Well this weekend we've; had a couple of long walks with the dog, visited Ironbridge and Blist Hill Victorian Village, done some gardening, had lunch out, had brunch out, visited a huge antiques centre. DH has been to the rugby today while I went to the garden centre and then did an hour of yoga. Planned a holiday. Our DC are adults and don't live with us.

read watch tv dvd Netflix trips to London meals out cinema have a lie in walks coffee and cake out visit garden centres more coffee and cakes shopping batch cooking go away for weekend nice long bath. My children are practically grown up now do have my eight month niece for weekend sometimes then I remember!!

Swinging club/meets, pubs , dinner with friends, chores , shopping etc the usual.

Go out for brunch, read the news in bed, tea in bed, have morning/afternoon sex. Mostly just things involving bed. Maybe the occasional night out with friends.

Sleep late, brunch at a cafe and linger for a couple of hours over the papers, potter in the garden or go for a walk, prosecco and nibbles at 6pm, movie
You're mad to even have to ask this!

this weekend I have had a lie in done some gardening done some washing and ironing read my book watched tv cleaned kitchen done a food shop had a take away had a nap cooked sunday lunch hatched cooked relaxed on the decking hoovered up organised our diaries and planned various things to do. The weekend soon gets filled!!

Enjoy themselves!!

We used to drink a lot with friends on Friday nights. Lie in and shag on Saturday mornings. Go for long walks in the park, out for dinner and to the theatre/a gig with friends on Saturday evening. Sunday we'd lie in and shag again, read the papers, do some gardening, go for another walk, go round the food markets, cook together, have a bath together, read in bed. Bliss.

Before DH and I had our DDs, we used to be able to go out for meals or the cinema without needing to find a babysitter. We used to go for walks. I used to enjoy reading a book in peace, from cover to cover.

But most of all, I used to enjoy being able to LIE IN!!!

This weekend we slept until 9.30 on Saturday and 10am this morning. We've been to a flea market, read the papers, had a leisurely pub lunch, got a log fire going, cooked together, watched a movie or two. Back to work tomorrow.

I would garden without simultaneously having to “look at this bug!” And reboot he iPad and referee ww3. Just garden, calmly and quietly.

And I’d parkrun really hard gunning fir a pb cause I could rest afterwards not launch straight into childcare/ piggy backs / crawling around the floor.

Hill walking /any walking
Bike rides
Gym
Theatre
Going out to dinner or lunch
Movie night
Learn to dance (cerroc)
Comedy club
Quiz nights in the pub
Go to bars to see live music
Binge on a box set
Cookin together and invite people round to eat
Going to music festivals
Beer and gin festivals
Weekends way (city breaks)
Date nights
Tennis
Going skiing
I love my family but I really enjoying being with my husband we have great fun together

If I had a child free weekend I’d probably spend it cleaning 😂

Get drunk, smoke a joint, play loud music, don't wash, and don't answer the phone, all without a tinge of guilt!

Sleep, sex, Sunday papers, lunch/dinner at places with tablecloths, booze/pub, gardening, shopping, gym, spa/nails/facial.

Our kids are 27 and 31 and don't live at home.

We both work most weekends so have a couple of days off in the week.

We
Sleep in
Do nothing
Shop
Visit places
Read
Allotment/garden
DIY
Clean

I don't get your point that 'everything is geared to having children' at the weekend. Not at all. Not in large towns and cities, anyway. The places seem full of young pre-children people just getting on with it.

What did we do, 11 years or more ago? We went to the cinema a lot more than we ever do now. Pub in the evening. Visits to museums or places that turn nice children into whiny booooooored monsters. Dunno. We probably didn't do enough of whatever it was we did, and now we never shall again. We have a delightful but very very autistic younger son and I can't imagine being able to leave him with someone all weekend, not with my parents ageing rapidly and his delightful toilet habits.

I don't hate our weekends but it has to be a case of divide and rule. One parent does outdoors or home-based stuff with the younger, the other parent does fun stuff with the older. The younger will, I think, be living with us until we're too past it to look after him, so I don't think childfree weekends will happen again. I hope parents with NT children who eventually grow up or old enough to be on their own appreciate their luck.

In defense of having kids, though, we quickly realise dthat instead of moochinga round thinking 'life is over' we just accepted life was different, and spent a LOT of weekends doing fun stuff with the DC - lots of trips to castles and steam fairs and narrow gauge railways, petting farms and cycling/den building/ dam-building in the woods, baking cakes and watching films under duvets when it rains. I love family weekends. I even enjoyed the couple of years cheering on frozen rugby-pitch sidelines.

Have lie ins, watch Netflix, go for meals, have kitchen parties, book holidays.

lunch out
watch tv
sleep
eat big dinner
sleep some more

repeat + Sunday papers

Actually, most of my weekends in my 30's were nowhere near as nice as having ds now. I feel bad for my earlier comment. I was at the end of a 6 hour car ride and he was whining.