What do you do when your DH is out for the evening?

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I don't know why.

But nights when DH is out I always bring myself straight to bed.

Watch TV, drunk tea, and make sure I have a cat to keep me company.

I don't know why but I don't like sitting in the lounge by myself. Even like tonight when he was out early I'm in bed soon as DC asleep with the TV on.

Go to bed early so I can make the most ⭐️ of all the space in bed to myself! 😂

I'm doing it wrong.. I do housework.
Altho I do suffer slightly with separation anxiety so if I try to sit and chill I get worked up clock watching.
I do make a point of after housework is to have a soak until I know its the time he's on his way home. Then I flick TV on and he thinks I've chilled out.. Rather than washing windows or something stupid.

I usually have a pamper evening, or a girlie night with my 2 dds movie and snacks.

Zip round the house doing a quick tidy. Otherwise I can't settle.

Then I can have a cuppa, watch crap telly and do my knitting.

After the kids have gone to sleep, read in the bath with a glass of wine, watch some telly with snacks, early to bed to starfish.

He used to go on the occasional overnight trip with work and I felt so weird and totally responsible for the kids and hated it. But the last time he went away I was actually asleep by 9pm (unheard of for me, I’m usually a midnight sleeper) and slept like an absolute log until 7am. Incredible.

Get hold of the remote control and catch up with recorded progs. he hates.

Watch things on telly he wouldn't be interested in, or trashy stuff that he'd make annoying comments about so I prefer to watch without him around!

I have so many things I want to do (such as catching up on tv, playing video games, listening to music etc...) that I often waste half the evening working out what I want to do most. By the time I actually reach a decision, it’s got too late and I give up and go to bed

Masturbation.

Pringles.

Doesn't matter which order.

Read in bed & drink wine then.. er.. enjoy my own company

FaceTime my boyfriend

My dp works away for months and to be honest I love it too much. I potter in the garden, cuddle the cat, read, mumsnet, call family to chat, long bath, sew, cook and there’s never ending housework. I savour the time dc is in bed and it’s quiet.

Masterbate, drink gin, read book, watch football

Eat from a bowl on the sofa watching stuff he hates. He's out tomorrow night and as soon as the baby is down I'm going to get in the hottest bubbliest bath you've ever seen.

The same as when he is here, dinner and tv.

Reverse lie in sometimes - get ds to bed and then I’ll go up not long after.

Or I watch repeats of stuff I want to! Tomorrow I have a night alone so am planning on having a big fat gin, watch Black Mirror and eat. I will more than likely be in bed mega early though!

My DP hates fish, so I only ever eat it if we’re out or he’s away. I buy M&S Gastropub fish, chips and mushy peas, eat it in the living room in front of the TV (we usually eat at the table), read, have some wine, then usually start to miss him about bedtime. It’s weird because we quite often spend the evenings in separate rooms after we’ve eaten dinner, just popping in and out to chat, but him actually being out or away feels totally different.

Have a bath, cook a tea he wouldn't like (loving Sainsburys Taste the Difference ham & mushroom pizza at the mo), eat loads of snacks and watch what I want on TV. Love a night to myself!

my partner dont go out without me or a kid with him and as we need a kid each the adults are never alone(caring responsibilities)

My DH is away for 23 days out of every six weeks.

I read, do crafts, watch programmes I like, socialise with friends, go away for a few days/ weekend. Go shopping buy things he won’t know about. Gardening, catch up with chores, have a take away, get stuck into work stuff, stay at work longer to get stuff done, go for a walk. Go to bed early, go to bed late, eat chocolate.

Basically please myself but it all ends in a few months as he retires. After 37 years of him working away I am not sure how I will take to him being home all the time. I suspect I am going to find it a bit claustrophobic at times especially in winter. I may take an evening class or two.🙂 I think I will need to 🤐 my mouth a bit.

I cook belly pork which he hates, then usually have a bath and maybe play with my wand afterwards 😂

My husband never goes out. We don’t really have a social life due to having an autistic son and absolutely no one to look after him. We can’t take him anywhere either as he’s so difficult. We have a caravan which I usually go to at weekends with our younger son. I love it, I download movies and binge watch crap most of the weekend!

I do what I normally do, just without him.

Read, MN, play games and watch some TV.

I never feel alone though as I have five children, three of them teens who are up late. I would quite like a night completely on my own.

Watch tv he doesn’t like.
Do little chores that I’d been putting off like tidy a drawer or something boring that get some put off in favour of spending time together
Eat food he doesn’t like
Normal things like see friends, sports clubs etc
Star fish in the bed and use all 4 pillows