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A typical evening with your OH

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All0vertheplace · 30/04/2016 22:11

Bit of a broad question, and not necessarily easy to answer, but what does a typical evening look like for you and your OH? How much do you do together, how much separately? How much do you talk? Laugh? Kiss?

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FinnigansCake · 02/05/2016 12:09

DH watches the tv, nods off with the remote control in his lap and jacknifes awake if I try to sneak it off him to change channels.

Sometimes he scratches his balls or farts. That's about as lively as he gets until ten o'clock, when he shuffles off to the kitchen to make two milky coffees.

I read stuff on my tablet and play Candy Crush far more than I should or do something creative (knit, crochet, sew).

We've been married over 30 years.

MegaClutterSlut · 02/05/2016 13:06

Kids will go up at 8. Dh usually makes a cup of tea and givese a kiss before going on his ps4 till 9.30 im usually go on MN or facebook Then we will have a chat before snuggling on the sofa and we'll watch an episode or 2 of something's just finished watching the only fools and horses series Wednesday night is our 'date' night. We will typically get a takeaway and watch a film it's the only day he doesn't go on the computer

MegaClutterSlut · 02/05/2016 13:07

Forgot to say been married 14 yrs together 17

Dowser · 02/05/2016 14:29

Well we are nearly 8 years in and apart from loo breaks/ bath time we are together every day 24/7 so our downtime is kindle/ iPad or watch something on tv together.

We are happy and content. Sex time is usually mornings.

Dowser · 02/05/2016 14:31

I do miss the early years...at times. It's all still good though.

MadHattersWineParty · 02/05/2016 14:37

I get home later than him and he likes it when I come in and greet him in German.

I'm not German, but he found out I can speak it last year and thinks I sound sexy when I speak German Confused

He sits in the living room and usually plays Civilastion while I cook/watch utter crap on the tv. We debate if we can be arsed sitting properly at the table or not. We have a her real mean/catch up on the day, recount tales of other people on the Tube who have pissed us off.

He's a soppy bugger and likes to occasionally gaze upon me and say something romantic and then we have a snog Grin

We always go to bed at the same time and have sex more often than not.

Dowser · 02/05/2016 14:44

Oh and throughout the day we will chat about everything and anything.
Today we've been discussing syntonics and the problems he's had with his eyesight. I've been telling him about some Alzheimer's research I was reading about. That I'm going to ferment some peppers when I get home and where to buy organic ones...
Whats going into the next blend of massage oil I'm going to make
Some healthy food recipes on a future learn link he emailed to me.
The weather, what we will have for dinner, shall we go out tonight..the usual everyday sort of chit chat

He's my best friend....in face I have better conversations with him than all of my best friends together.

Dellarobia · 02/05/2016 14:51

We eat after the DC have gone to bed, as DH usually isn't home in time to eat with them (we all eat together at weekends).

We always eat at the kitchen table and have a chat about our days. Then we move to the sitting room, sit on the sofa and watch a DVD - either a film (split over two nights) or a box set. We don't go on the internet much in the evenings. I go up to bed at 10pm as I like to have a bath and read, he watches the news and comes up half an hour after me.

We've been together 19 years.

mogloveseggs · 02/05/2016 15:39

We eat around 5.45 when dh comes home. Sometimes kids eat early and we eat later. He has an hour or so with ds and then ds goes to bed. Dd will sometimes watch programmes with us but has been revising for sats lately. Nice/light nights kids play out till bedtime. When they're settled we argue over TV and cuddle up unless I'm cross stitching/reading. At the moment I'm at choir one night, brownies one night (dd in guides) and dh at pool one night.
Weekends are generally chill out family time and Sunday fed and pjs by six.

IronNeonClasp · 02/05/2016 19:54

I get in (5:30/18:00) DC have eaten dinner. He is on PC with headphones. They are on devices or playing. DC Bath/bed. Dinner. Bit of cleaning. Headphones back on. Go to bed with DD in bottom bunk Sad

BillBrysonsBeard · 02/05/2016 20:15

Settle on couch together usually watching our own thing but commenting every now and then, sometimes cuddling.. Stand in kitchen at random intervals and mess about, tease, joke around, hold hands etc. Have a chat about some funny article or current affairs. Cook together. He's my best mate Smile

BillBrysonsBeard · 02/05/2016 20:19

Forgot to add.. We have weeks at a time where we play xbox every evening together, that's a good bonding time for us.

GhostsComeWith · 02/05/2016 20:38

It depends on the day really. Dh and I spend a lot of time together and we love each other's company and make each other laugh a lot. I work part time so home by 3pm. He is self employed and if not out on a project does paper work from home. I cook and help dd with homework while he works in the next room (no door) some can chat if he wants. We all eat together if he is home.

Dd goes to bed at around 8.30 /9. When I am upstairs saying goodnigt etc to her dh tidies up the sitting room, stokes up the fire, sets up the good wife on Netflix for me so it is all ready when I come down. He usually works on the computer I the other room while I watch an episode of that. Then he joins me, sometimes we'll have a glass of wine or he'll have a whiskey and I'll have a gin & tonic (which he always fixes for us). We will watch an episode of whatever box set we are following. We have our own sofas but very often he sits on mine and rubs my feet for me. Then we head to bed

We are physically very affectionate and hug & kiss a lot throughout the day. We talk a lot too as we spend a lot of time together

There are times when he is under pressure with work and works very long hours, often not home till 10.30 / 11. I keep his dinner for him. I really miss his company when he's not around.

We work in the same field so have lots in common. We never ever run out of things to talk about but are also comfortable to be silent not around each other.

We are together 17 yrs and married 13 hrs this year.

Judydreamsofhorses · 02/05/2016 21:07

We always eat together at the table, but often sit in separate rooms afterwards, me watching TV, reading, onlIne, him watching sport in the spare room. We pop in and out with cups of tea, and there's always kissing and cuddling. We don't always go to bed at the same time, he's a bad sleeper so often stays up later to make sure he's tired - usually have sex on weekend mornings.

Ohdearohdearme · 02/05/2016 21:58

DH usually gets home from work at 6pm. Sometimes we eat together, sometimes we don't - I work from home and have usually cooked enough for both of us during the day, but because I'm on a diet and he has hollow legs, he doesn't always fancy what I've made and will cook himself something more calorific.

Because he's a teacher, he more often than not has a mountain of marking and planning to get on with. The kitchen table doubles as his desk, so he'll be sat there for most of the evening, working, usually while watching something on his laptop / listening to an audio book / youtube / online poker / computer games, etc. I'll pop in and out - always plenty to say to each other - he never fails to make me laugh and there are lots of kisses and cuddles. Sometimes I'll be finishing off work in my office upstairs, other times I'll be watching the TV in the living room while surfing the net on my laptop - mumsnet, facebook, ebay, online scrabble, playing songpop, etc. DH usually has a bath at some stage, whereas I prefer to shower in the mornings.

We usually make a point of watching something together before going to sleep on the laptop in bed - more often than not a series - currently watching Game of Thrones and The Wire -, him with a beer, me with a glass of red wine. It's rare that either of us goes to bed before midnight because we're both night owls. We rarely have sex on a school night - we prefer to save it until the weekend.

On Wednesdays, we both attend an creative writing workshop together for a few hours. Also usually once a week he'll go round to his friend's house and watch a film while I go to orchestra rehearsals.

thestairs · 11/05/2016 15:52

Hi, I'm not from the UK, I'm not sure what 'OH' stand for. Can someone help tell me what 'OH' stand for? I'm guessing it same as DH, mean husband right?

A typical day for us. We always eat breakfast and dinner together, every day.

Regardless how busy his work loads is, I tell him I always cook dinner and wait for him; I do want him to have fresh meal to eat when he gets home.. We always make an effort to eat together. When he gets off work late, we eat late dinner together. When he go to work early, we eat early breakfast together. And we go to sleep and wake up at the same time.
I guess we're weird, but that just how it is for us; from living together to marriage to now, it still like this.

Our daily days is very simple; we like an old couple, lol

He loves loves watch News on TV and read newspaper; watch News and read newspaper make him happy.
I know this so I try to get a newspaper for him everyday.. On my way driving home, I always pick up a newspaper to bring home. Have it ready for him, so when he gets home from work he can read it.

When he gets home from work it take a shower first and then eat dinner.. I know this therefore by the time he gets home--I make sure I have his towels and sweatpants in the bathroom ready for him so he can take a shower.
While he take the shower, I'm in the kitchen prepare dinner put out on the table; when he come out and we eat together, we eat and talk on the dinner table too, lol

After dinner he cleans the kitchen, and I wash dishes. He help me with the dishes too when he done clean the kitchen. Then we went to watch news, I watch it with him. He loves watch News--it his ways of relax.. We talk, we spend the time we have together; I'm always by his side when he home.
And then we headed to bed, we go to sleep at the same time and wake up at the same time.. We don't even fight or argue, I guess there nothing for us to argue about.

We boring and very routine , we like an old couple.. We just so familiar with each others, we turn into an old couple, lol

Seem like we cling together when he home, lol
But he work long hours; so I do try to spend as much time with him as I can.

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