what do you talk to your partner about? - we have run out of interesting things to talk about!

[tinytitch]

just wondering what you talk about with your dp - myself and partner both work at the same place (i am on mat leave at mo). we only ever seem to talk about work and the children. we don't have any shared interests really and we spend our evenings drinking wine and watching tv, i have told him i think it is boring talking about work and children but it seems to be the only common ground we have.

Yep, 12 year on we have this.
Idly gossiping about the neighbours fills a few minutes, but we wouldnt if we had anything better to discuss

Tell him about MN.

have mentioned few things about mumsnet - he seems quite interested actually. maybe he should join too! (can two people join the same email address?)

I think it is good to do things separately deliberately to avoid this situation then we can talk about other things from the 'outside world'.

Do the pair of you go out together/ separately? Our little lad's about 8 months old and we each try and go out one night a week separately so you enjoy the evenings you spend together more.

he never goes out, so i feel a bit guilty going out - we are also really short of money at moment so finding something interesting to do thats free is really hard. i keep telling him to go out to visit his friends but think he feels i am trying to get rid of him (tbh i am, then i can feel free to go on mumsnet etc and not feel i am ignoring him)

We talk about MN, schooldays & childhood (he's 8 years younger), family, friends, books we've read (past & present) - who you'd get to play the characters if the made (remade) a film of your favourite book.....stuff like that

i suppose thinking about it we must talk about other things but i am feeling a bit down atm so maybe i am focusing on the bad things but i still wish he would go out sometimes and give me some space in the evening.

Me and my OH have this problem sometimes (there are definately bonuses to having a lodger to talk to).

We tend to find 'interesting' topics to talk about such as 'what happens if superman gets a case of the runs half way through a rescue' or other very silly topics.

my OH doesn't like leaving the house either. If it wasn't for work he wouldn't leave. God knows why.

FioFio...Wiltshire?? Why?

Mumsnet
Rant to each other about what's in the news/politics etc
Books we're reading
Gossip about neighbours/friends/workmates
Work
Family
Childhood - eg what was your favourite holiday as a child? Best/worst childhood memory? Childhood friends - who was your best friend when you were 10 etc.
DH and I have prob exhausted most of the childhood topics but it's amazing sometimes what you realise you don't know about each other.

I have to say that slagging off our friends forms a satisfactorily large part of our evening conversations.

Also lying on the sofa reading out to each other large parts of the "Heat" and "Closer"....

Oh god... this chat has really got me worried. We have 3 kids and its our 1st wedding anniversary on Saturday, and we are going out for a meal together... infact, the first since our wedding day, and that doesn't count cos there was others at the table!!! Its made me realise that this will be the first time in ages that we have actually sat accross from each other without any peripheral distractions! What if I can't think of anything to say???

my dh is trying to set up a business for me - so its oodles of fun in our house. he sets me home work

dp came in this evening - after telling him how dd2 has been today - i asked him how work was! Have yet to find anything to say, maybe big brother will spark a few conversations.

we read a lot of the same books which gives us stuff to talk about

my dp doesn't read - otherwise i think that would be a good topic of conversation. although last night we did have a five minute conversation about margaret thatcher!!

we skit and take the piss out of eachother and people we know

MN
Films
Books
Friends
Work
Kids
Music
Things we did when we were younger

Loads and loads of things, cant remember them all, but sometimes its stupidly pointless things like whether sheep have legs that are all the same size but he makes me laugh and is intresting and we havent yet run out of things to talk about so, so far so good.