To ask if you call your DH everyday when you get off work?

[Justcurious1]

A colleague of mine phones her DH everyday as soon as she gets off work, literally as soon as she gets out of the door. We get off at the same time everyday, and she phones him aswell in her lunch break. I know it's none of my business, but I'm just curious how many of you do this? And if it's a done thing and I'm the odd one out? I sometimes wonder why she doesn't just go home without calling?

OH leaves for work at 5 everyday and rings me about 6.15am to say good morning as I'm asleep when he leaves but up by then.
We text most days throughout and he calls my direct dial at work if he has got an early finish to rub it in lol.
I like regular contact with OH.... it brightens my day 😬

If my DH is wfh he will call me when he knows I am on lunch. I will also call him everyday on my way home from work.

Not even sure why, we just chat about nothing! And I always end the call with ‘I’ll be home in a minute, see you then.’

I always call mine as soon as I get in the car to drive home.

I work part-time and DH often calls me during the day if he's driving around and not busy. It's also rare that he won't call me when he's on his way back home.

I love 'chatting about nothing', especially with DH .

DH:- "Hello my darling, just giving you a quick ring to tell you I love you".
Me:- "Get milk".

I speak to my DH during the day. And I also speak to both my parents everyday too! And me and my sisters call or text each other every day - maybe we are just weird. but I can handle weird. It's what ever you are happy with I suppose

This is a pretty stupid thread really.

It's like saying, why do some people go home and watch 2 hours of soaps together most evenings, haven't they got anything better to do, don't try get fed up the same old storylines being rehashed.

We're all different, there's no right or wrong. It's quite pathetic that people are sneering at others for talking to their husbands/wives on the telephone.

This is so funny. DH and I speak on the way to and from my work. In the morning it’s generally a “hope your day goes well and remember you’re picking up the kids tonight” conversation and after work it’s about how our day’s been and what time we’re likely to get home. There are no abuse or control issues. I also call my mum to check in on her and my dad.

We do opposite shifts for childcare reasons so we talk on the phone, otherwise we wouldn’t speak for days on end. The person on earlies will call the other on their meal break in the morning, and the person on lates will call the other on their meal break in the evening.

It is mainly chit chat with some info about DC if there’s something that needs passing on. Usually it’s one of us going “OMG you have to listen to the latest (whatever) podcast and when you have we need to dissect it”

We don’t often send texts as DH’s eyes are getting bad and he can’t be arsed.

I would hate to think someone thought my husband HAD to phone me, some husbands just want to 🤷‍♀️

I’m away on a course all week and I haven’t phoned him yet and probably won’t. I did text him at breakfast this morning to tell him about the woman on a neighbouring table who I could hear chewing.🙉🤮

I know someone whose OH rings him during the day at least 3 times and he rings her every lunchtime. I honestly wouldn't have enough to talk about to anyone that would warrant that kind of contact every day. Especially if I lived with them.

My SO calls every day at lunchtime just to chat for a few minutes and see how the day is going.

When we first got together I thought it was an emergency or something. But no, his dad did the same with his mum for 40 years and their marriage is still going strong so it's just how the men in that family show love.

If the call is missed, no problem. But I have come to enjoy seeing his name come up on my phone each day, it's sweet

Why do you feel so much passion/emotion about how your colleague spends her time?

Do you fancy her?
Do you think you know more than her?
Is your relationship better than hers?

Learn what matters and wind your neck in on your colleagues life .

I text my husband throughout the day depending on how busy he is. We find plenty to talk about. I don't have many friends as I have bad anxiety and my son has ASD for which the school constantly call me to collect him at random points of the day so I'm stuck home alone mostly and get lonely.

I wouldn’t do it personally but I understand why some people do. DP and I usually text intermittently throughout the day so we’re caught up on all the talking points. We even have whole days where we don’t talk!

We call each other on our morning commutes as we don’t see each other (he leaves an hour before while I’m still sleeping). Not every morning but on most. He sometimes calls when he’s on his way home from work but that’s usually a shorter conversation about what’s for dinner etc.

I wouldn't call unless there was a problem, and he wouldn't call me, either. My bosses wife on the other hand calls multiple times a day, about stupid stuff. Drives me mad.

Yea me and my husband are like this. But he works a few night shifts a week so don't see each other every night

Step dad does this to mum. I think it's weird

Although he does usually do it so she can put tea on as he knows how long it takes to get home

It's not for everyone but if DP and I didn't have a conversation on the phone throughout the day we would never get to talk about stuff with DS in the house (adult things/issues we don't want DS overhearing). Also when DP gets home he just carries on working, as do I, most of the time so we don't actually get a lot of quality time together to just talk.
I find it draining dealing with other people most of the time and I think DP can sometimes too. He just calms me and makes me feel a little bit relaxed.
We don't have set times where we can talk each day but we do message each other and phone when/if we can. Most days we'll have a chat about bollocks.
We also work together a lot so it's just a chance for us to not be talking about work.

No and I'll be honest I think it's odd .
I will see my dh in the evening and catch up then .
I've worked with people who ring on lunch break and just chat shit like I've had a ham sandwich it was ok and I'm going to have a Banana after, the traffic was busy this morning and what shall we have for tea. My dh would put the phone down on me if I rang him for this .
Also I think it's rude to have a conversation in front of someone I feel like I'm interrupting something, the fact that she gets the train with you but spends 10 minutes chatting on the phone is rude.

A guy at work's wife calls him periodically during the day and ALWAYS for a solid half hour during his lunch break, every day. If he doesn't answer she doesn't stop calling and he faces a barrage of questions when he does. If she hears a female voice in the background (only two females in the corporation) she accuses him of sleeping with us. He's told us this. He has admitted he has had affairs all his life, (and so I partly understand her fears) but she knows this. I wouldn't swap places with either of them for all the tea in China.... awful.

Me and my husband speak on his break and lunch time every day, just for a couple of minutes. No abuse , just nice to break the day up and speak to someone other than a cat!

@NannyRed no need love