How do you spend your evenings

[DaisySparkles]

Why hello there everyone.
Just really trying to save my sanity here! Partner and I both work, have kids and every boring evening we are alone when kids are in bed we sit watching the same old crap on tv and playing on phones, iPads etc.. Suggested to partner we need to stop this habit as this is getting like I feel "I'm dead" everynight of the week. He's quite happy with the same mundane shit! Tells me this is what every household does 😂 Somehow I can't quite believe that 🙄
So tell me Mumsnet users, how do you spend your evenings?

Dinner around 5:30, then watching an hour or so of whatever we’re watching, then on our phones or reading. We chat intermittently. We don’t have children. I was telling my DH the other night how much I love our evening ritual! When the weather warms up things will change. Aren’t we all more housebound in the winter?

Well yes, this is pretty much it.
We all get in about 6ish on a weekday and they play/watch telly/laptop until tea is ready about 6.30.
Then about 7.15pm youngest has shower and then reads/draws/makes a mess.
Then its DS1s turn for shower and he uses all the hot water up. He likes to whinge about not being allowed on electronics after 7.30. Then he reads as well. His light is out by 8.45pm.
During that time the adults have been pottering/helping DC with whatever/browsing on the pc/cleaning up after dinner/tidying the mess that has materialised/doing the washing, etc.
DH sometimes nips to the pub for a bit during this time. Or I go to the gym. Or I sew.
By the time we've got the kids showered and to bed and I've had a bath in any remaining hot water its 9.30pm.

I then actively try and sit down with DH every evening for half an hour to an hour of telly. Massively interrupted telly because one of us usually starts talking during it about something random that we forgot about earlier because we were interrupted by children.

Yep, mundane.

Totally agree feels very mumdane...hehe see what I did there. tv and kids do homework dinner 5pm always so boring. Tv all shower and then two children 9 and 10 go to bed at 730ish. Then we just get I to a box set or BBC drama. But recently I bought a radio alarm clock and I charge my phone downstairs over night so this tends to help with phone addiction during the evening. Not always tho. I try and keep my phone where I am not in the evening. Maybe you could introduce pizza and games night once a week to break it up

Pretty much the same here , the evenings are spend doing tea/ spellings/ homework etc, all have dinner together to catch up on each other's day but after the kids are in bed I'm usually on my phone cos sh is watching crap on the tv. It's is mundane , but it's this time of year, feels like winter has gone on forever and we've done nothing but settle down in the sofas for the past 5 months!!!! Couple of weeks once the clocks go forward we will naturally do more

Same as you op

Have been thinking along similar lines this week!
The amount of time my husband has been spending on his phone (football podcasts, imagine the pain!) is beyond me.
I discussed it with him this week as we had some rubbish on the television and were still on our phones. We are going to try a 'no phones' after 7pm rule. I give it a week .
Jokes aside, it is easy to slip into comfortable habits. We always have 'date night' on a Friday evening, we do not have to go out, do nice things at home but make a special effort to do something together, maybe suggest this?

Tea at 5 ISH. All shower, get ready for bed. I make sure all we have what we need for school and work is ready for the next day. TV goes on if not already on. We sit down with gadgets usually. We do chat to each other about our day. Usually in bed by 10 as 5.30am start each morning. I am an older parent so don't get bored!!