How many times a month/year

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If you have kids how many times a month/year do you go out in the evening with friends?

Dh last had a night out for my 40th.. 6 years ago! I've been out once with friends since 2019. Dh been out once with work since 2019. We've had 3 nights together in 12 years.

Surely it depends on age of dc?

With friends, every time we organise something - this could be once a month or once a week.

With DH, two or three times a week.

Maybe once every 2 or 3 months. We don't go out. 3 families with kids, we meet at one of our houses for cocktails and games night which can be karaoke or a board game like monopoly and either snacks or a takeaway. Sometimes the kids are with us playing or sometimes we have babysitters. I don't drink, other couple friend is pregnant, so plenty of us to watch kids sober.

Normal for us is once a week. We have a small circle of close friends and we take it in turns to go to each other's houses for drinks, snacks, listen to music, dance in the kitchen if drunk enough! Kids are always welcome too and between us range between 6 and 22!
We probably go out out with the same group once a month, without the kids.

Dh & I really enjoy their company and look forward to seeing them after a long week at work!

I used to go out with my friends every Friday night from Ds1 being a few months old. Dh used to go for a drink on Sunday to the pub across the road at 9.39 until 11pm once the house was organised for the week.
Once the kids got older (from about ds1 being 5) I used to go away for a week with friends.

At least twice a month. Single parent and like to see friends when DD is with her dad.

Few times a month.

I feel less alone after reading these responses! In the last year I’ve joined a few things to get out more and am now out a couple of times a month, maybe 3, but I don’t feel like I really know people well so its still a bit of an effort but worth it. DP goes out with friends a similar amount so I also get the odd quiet evening at home. Haven’t been out with just DP since before covid, don’t have a regular babysitter anymore and DC are 11 and 9 so feel like it’s not such a thing - can sit in a beer garden or go for a nice meal with them without having to take colouring books and be home by 7.30 :) fairly soon we’ll be able to go out for an early evening drink locally and leave them at home for an hour which will be good. We’re not massive ravers as is prob apparent.

In my 20s and 30s when I has young kids I was going out once a month maybe a bit more. Now in my 40s I go out a lot less - probably 3 or 4 times a year. My choice really as I used to be the one to organise get togethers and I just fancy it a lot less now so don't bother unless someone else sorts it.

Once every 6 years for me if my night out with BFF is actually happening next month. I ll leave them at 630 & be back by 1030 to do bedtime

I go for drinks with my close group of mum friends probably every other week, or at least once a month anyway. Then I have a hobby I do one evening a week as well. And tonight I've been out but with DH and kids at a friend's barbecue. But DH and I don't get out together very often due to lack of babysitters. We do have a neighbour we can pay but the kids don't much like it plus at £10 an hour just for babysitting it makes for an expensive night out.

A few times a year. DH and I only go out in the evening without the DC a similar amount. No family nearby to babysit but my eldest is now 14 so looking forward to her being old enough to babysit the younger DC in a couple of years. Covid at least has meant DH and I can have lunch out together regularly which is nice.

I ain't got any friends to go out with.

We each have one regular evening activity a week (I go to Pilates and then the pub, he has a regular board game group) and then we probably each go out on top of that somewhere between weekly and fortnightly. That's separately, though - we basically never go out on the evening together, I think we have twice since covid and one of those was a wedding. We have a four year old and a one year old.

We don't. We choose we not to use babysitters

I've had two this year. Rock and roll!
My last child-free evening out with DH was Dec 2019, and we had a one-off weekend while the DCs were on camp exactly 3 years ago.

Give it a couple more years and we can finally go local without kids or babysitters...

Once a week with DH, usually every other week with friends.

Every few months

Never 😏

About every 4 months or so. I don’t enjoy it like I used to pre-kids, every single time I’ve been out I wished I’d just stayed in my nice cosy bed with an audiobook instead😂

I don't have friends. The last time I went out in the evening was with the kids and DH 2 weeks ago as we went to the theatre. Before that it was about 2 years ago.

With friends about once every 6 weeks with DH twice a month if we can we have just got to the point we don’t need sitters it’s fantastic!

Really not a lot unless it’s something big like a wedding. Our little boy is nearly 1 and other than one dinner out at valentines and one wedding we haven’t been out at all together unless he comes too 🙈 We’ve been to nights out with friends seperately but even that is less than once a month

I go out with friends once a week. I also go on a girls night out once a month.
DH and I go out once a week and have regular weekends away.
I have a large family and dd loves having sleepovers with them 😀