To ask if you are happy in your own company what do you do

[AmanitaRubescens]

DD(16) busy with studying, training, socialising and work.

DH busy volunteering and has got a new hobby that gets him out of the house.

So I'm spending increasing amounts of time alone. I meet friends for dog walks or coffee.

Interested to hear what people do if they enjoy longish periods of time alone. I expect I will, once it becomes the norm

Oh and I also spend allot of my evening time with my animals but then technically I’m not alone when I’m with them.

I have a short attention span so I'm usually doing a million different things.

Playing with the dogs
Sculpting
Reading
Writing solo and with my writing group
MMA classes, gym classes and online workouts
I make lingerie, festival wear and costumes to sell
I make skincare products
I take part in monthly challenges, I'm doing Inktober where I try to paint something new every day and I'm doing a Halloween horror movie challenge. Next month I'll be taking part in Nanowrimo.

Ooh, I love my alone time. I even work alone (with animals). I do a mixture of the following:

Reading
Watching Netflix
Adult colouring books
Walking/playing with the dog
Cuddling up with the cats
Photography
Messing about on various websites
Online surveys
Computer games
Taking naps

I absolutely love it and I need my alone time to re-charge.

I watch TV (I can't get back into reading since having Covid), play video games (mainly FFVIII or Runescape), crochet, decorate etc. Last weekend I decided I would learn the algorithms for completing a Rubik's cube and can now do one in under 5 minutes.

I spend 90 percent of my life alone. I wfh, DP works out of the home and is away a lot and no kids.

I never get lonely. I exercise, read, watch tv, take naps, go out in the fells. I've always been fine in my own company but I think it's a personality thing.

I do a lot of family history research, read and bake. I could quite happily be a hermit who stayed at home all the time, bar a trip to a coffee shop or the library I think!! I quite enjoyed lockdown, I was AWESOME at staying home

Walk or run for miles
Watch tv
Cook
Read
Clean

Im really happy with my own company

Unfortunately I seem to spend most of my time to myself doing housework and admin. I love alone leisure time though. I knit, crochet, read and am learning a language. I am literally never ever bored.

I love alone time and live alone. Have done for 19 years and wouldn't change it. Never fancied having a partner or kids and read, cook, watch tv and run/gym often. Also love holidays and will be having a month off in a resort next year. Also see lots of theatre, sometimes alone BUT I am also a huge extrovert and see friends for meals, gigs, drinks and theatre a few times a week so it's the perfect balance for me.

I love spending time alone, always have done. I like reading, walking, watching YouTube videos, browsing in bookshops or libraries, thinking about things that interest me or researching them on the Internet.

One day a week When I’m child free I Sit on my arse , lay in bed watching Netflix sleeping and eating snacks and do abit or cleaning so I don’t can say I’ve done something. I love it.

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Netflix, YouTube, read and snack

Gardening, love it.

Go to the gym.
Shop.
Go for walks.
Browse online.

Watch Netflix, read, write, walk, chat online, rearrange toiletries, howl at the moon 😀

Plot the downfall of my enemies.

Knit.

I love visiting friends or doing things with OH outside of work but I always think of my time alone as a real luxury. I snuggle down to watch a film or read a good book, knit or sew. I also really enjoy going local cafe’s and bars for coffee & cake or a glass wine to people watch or read my book. I also enjoy the cinema or theatre alone- even if I wasn’t alone, it’s not like you can chat.

Go for a walk / run with long bath after.

Cook or bake.

Just sit and watch boxsets.

Window shop.

I have always loved being alone because I grew up in a busy house and had to share a bedroom. I relish the hours I get to myself and love it if dh goea away for the weekend! I have 3dc aged 7 and under so don't get much time but if I do my favourite things to do are
wander around shops
go for a long walk
go for a swim
take a train
watch tv
clean the house
Really anything is a joy as long as no one else is with me! I have never lived alone but I have travelled alone a lot. I sort if see myself when older staying in my house or garden, drinking coffee or wine, listening to classical music and reading classic novels, alone. Not sure how dh fits into this.

I think the key in enjoying your own company is that you don’t have to be DOING anything as such. If you have to fill your time constantly, it would suggest to me that you aren’t happy in your own company at all.

@MoiraRose4

I think the key in enjoying your own company is that you don’t have to be DOING anything as such. If you have to fill your time constantly, it would suggest to me that you aren’t happy in your own company at all.

I think it depends how much time alone you have. And wanting to find things that you enjoy doing during that time rather than just filling the time.

I love my own company which is useful as I live on my own 😃 I read, draw and paint, watch films, take photos, do family and local history, do some volunteering, plus am social and go to the theatre, art galleries and cinema with friends.

I would kill for some alone time. both H and me work from home, he doesn't have an office to go in to, mine is 1700km away.
For the past schoolyear teen was online full year, went back this sept.
And we bought a cat in feb. So even if the boys are gone I will still have a cat to look after :( I have not been really alone for more than 20 months now. Apart when I'm in my car.

What I like to do when alone:

• listen to music through a speaker and not headphones
• sing to said music :)
• play bass guitar
• read
• knit
• not do housework for days
• eat knickknacks and not cook
• play puzzle
• read a bit more
• watch series on the tv not on my laptop with headphones