If ur DH or DP works away during the week can u answer me a question please?

[chubbymomie2012]

Im just wondering how often u contact each other either by text or by phone. For example does he txt good morning? do ye have txt conflabs in the evening. Does he call u? im just trying to guage if I am being unreasonable in wanting at least a few txts in the evening. Thanks ladies x

Phone call at lunch, phone call in the evening, emails/Facebook messages throughout the day. We have a 1 year old though and he loves to hear what he is up to.

Husband has worked away during the week for much of our 26 year marriage. It is usual for him to text several times through the day with phone calls at his lunchtime and evening. If he is in a difficult time zone then probably only one phonecall and fewer texts.

I whatsapp a few photos as stuff happens. Phonecall at least every other day, short emails... I sort of get in the zone when he is away and get irritated if I have to communicate too much. I like to miss him and then welcome him home.

We tend to text a little, e-mail during the working day most days and usually a quick phone call at night. When he was away in South Korea and USA for work phone was really too expensive so we did more e-mails and the kids e-mailed him too.

DP works away for periods, usually between 2 and 6 weeks.

If time and facilities (e.g. Wifi) will allow we stay in contact fairly constantly by iMessage or whatsapp. We will do good morning texts, a few updates throughout the day and I send pics of DS and I; then we will chat for a while via text in the evening. In this case he will only call 1 or 2 times in the week; or if I ask him to.

At the moment he is away and there is no Wifi so he calls twice a day; at lunchtime and dinner time and he will send an occasional email when he can get online.

In the past this has varied though depending on where in the world he is, how busy his job is and what I'm up to.

One call in the morning no longer than 5 mins to say good morning, 1-2 calls/texts during the day about bills/fees/practical stuff and a longer call/skype in the evening.

My DH travels quite a lot. I usually get a text or email to say he landed but then almost no contact except to say he missed his flight back and a vague message that states he will be back later than expected and then nothing until he lands.

Apparently he thinks being an international man of mystery is cool. I've got to the point when I am pretty happy he is away ... sorry do I sound bitter?

DH always away Monday morning til Wednesday very late - at least once a month from Monday til Friday night -
Never a text/call in the morning and is quite thrown as to why I would bother to do it to say hi - 'nothing changed overnight did it?'
Generally a call doing the day, at a VERY inconvenient time but the thought was there (!) and a text or quick 'goodnight' over the phone last thing... Unless he has been out with clients in which case he will phone, a bit blethered at about 2am to have a really long rambly chat about nothing in the taxi on his way back to wherever....

We talk on the phone every night, unless he's abroad then we whatsapp or skype (depending on how good internet connection is). Sometimes send little texts during the day. Some nights it's just a two minute chat if we're knackered, other nights it's a good half hour talk putting the world to rights.

I used to work away during the week and DP was working at home (not in the home, home city). it would be a text in the morning or a 2minute call if he was walking to work when I was getting up) and then a call in the evening. Not usually a long one.

He used to drive me mad calling me for a chat the second I got back into my hotel, I just needed a few hours to close the door on the day, order room service and decompress first. So usually it would be a text or 2min call to say I was finished work, then a call before bed to properly chat. (10mins to even 1hr, news depending).

Ours vary a lot, because he may be working in the evening, and often he is in places where he can't text, and phoning is rationed/expensive/banned. We use FB msging or emails mostly, and it's erratic/sporadic. If he can call late evening that's great. He'll often try to call at times he can talk to kids, that's a higher priority than talking to me.

DP works abroad and it varies. We usually talk (text) on Skype most days. DS video calls him on Skype about twice a week. I sometimes WhatsApp him of I'm on my lunch break at work and want a chat or we're out and about or I'm in bed away from the computer. I never call him unless there's an emergency. Some days we don't talk at all and others it's constant! I don't worry if he's not talking to me - usually its either work getting in the way or internet problems. If we don't connect at all for 3 or 4 days I start missing him.

DH travels overseas most of the time. He's not great at communication. He knows to text when he arrives so I don't worry.
He rarely texts/emails/calls unless there's a specific reason (not 'just because')
We haven't spoken since Saturday but we are communicating both ends of the day via FB messages.

I've always been rather envious of women whose OH's call for a chat every day or to say goodnight (although that's frequently not possible for DH) but I''ve finally come to realise it's not going to change.

When he was away 5 nights a week I'd get a text in the morning to ask if I'd got to work ok (130km commute on a horrid nasty motorway). Possibly a text or an email in the day. Sometimes bombarding me with texts if he was bored or there were issues. Usually a message or two in the evening (I get home at 4:30, he wasn't back at his accommodation until about 8pm, and I'm in bed by 9 normally) and normally a phone call before bed. Sometimes 1-2 mins, sometimes an hour, just depending what was going on really.

When my dh is away, I send a daily email update, what's app as its free, and Skype, but not really calls due to expenses, and no set comms as its sometimes too difficult due to work and its easy to feel forgotten or ignored when its not the case!

I sometimes fall asleep when putting dc to bed, so I can be just as unreliable :)

My husband regularly stays away from home for a couple of nights a week. He will always ring me when he gets back to the hotel room at approx 7 pm before he goes out to eat. Contact at any other time would only happen if we have something particular and important to discuss.

It's good to have some contact once a day, but I don't really need to have that call and we don't always have much to say if it's been a boring day.

We text each other good morning and good night and depending on what we're both doing that day we'll exchange a few texts and emails, just chatting. We'll talk on the phone either every day or every other day, depending how long he's away for and what we're both up to. The ratio of who contacts whom first is about equal. We email each other a few times a day at work too, even if he's not working away

I think many people would find that amount of contact unnecessary or clingy if they are less chatty than us though.