What is "me time"

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Hi, I am new on here today and thought I would come on for a moan. So what is ME TIME? I get up on a morning, feed DS go to work, come home, do the housework, make tea and have tea, feed DS and then go to bed. DH gets up, goes to work, comes home, has tea, watches tv or goes on playstation, (may wash the dishes) and goes to bed. when i am at work and he is at home he just looks after DS, no housework! My me time is when i get to have a bath - or it used to be - now my DS joins. Does other people have the same problems.

Yes!

I think you'll find "Me time" is that part of your life that is now over!!!

Seriously, you need to make time to have a relaxing soothing luxurious bath not a bath required for cleaning purposes ESPECIALLY NOT with baby. Also me time is doing the things you enjoy usually on your own or with a friend and NOT WITH BABY.

Really weird to start with but oh so necessary..

thanks i know i am not alone - though it sounds easier said than done!

what about swimming one evening thru the week? I find this really relaxing.

ME TIME???!!! WTF?! dont understand ....explain further ....

I have to go away, over a hundred miles, to get any me time. Anywhere else and i get pestered.

said it before, will say it again: a strict regime works wonders, assuming both spend all week working and/or looking after kids (ie a roughly fair divide) then divide up the weekend: Saturday morning is all yours, Sunday morning all his. You are at total liberty to do wtf you like; you don't have to negotiate; it's fair; you get afternoons to spend as family.

If the week is not a fair divide - ie you are doing housework while he watches tv of an evening, (when you've both spent all day working/looking after kids) then I think you have to point this out. Can't think of a particularly clever way of doing this - but why should you need to be clever about it? I suppose if he really detests cleaning then you could work out a fair divide re washing/cooking/other jobs.