Do you manage to spend some evenings with your oh or you are too busy ?

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I work from home so I'm on my own pretty much every day apart from when the kids are back at home (12 &15). I like the adult company in the evening but we don't always manage to seat together.

Every night as soon as ds 4 goes to bed around 7pm.I love that time

What Motherduckling ? Every every evening ?

Very rarely. I work from home and end up working at night too.

i work two evenings a week. So we spend 5 evenings together every week unless one of us goes out which is rare.

Yes, every night. At the moment, we have a new baby, so it's only for about 30-45 minutes in the evening and then I got to bed (and dh stays up with ds until midnight when he'll need his next feed, so I can get some extra sleep). But we've always made a point that we are home and together in the evenings, with occasional exceptions (like meeting a friend or being away to visit friends/family or for a work trip, which is like every other month or so, maybe even less). We don't keep standing plans in the evenings or on weekends as that's time for us as a family. A lunch with a friend or a night away to visit family is one thing, but we don't have sports/hobbies we do regularly away from home. We both do have to work some evenings (when I'm not on mat leave). My dh in particular runs a business so often does admin work in the evenings, but he always does in on his laptop on the sofa with me and we get to talk while he sends emails, does invoices, etc. We work fulltime otherwise and don't get any other alone time, so it's important. We were long distance when we were dating (for 2+ years) on opposite sides of the world until about 4 months before we got married, so I think because of that, we've always valued the time we have now together.

Every night.

I work from home mostly. If I'm in work I get in about 5:30pm. DH gets home at 6pm. We cook tea together, we chat over tea, we play a game while washing-up (who am I, name that tune or countries beginning with...), then we're normally sat down for about 7:30pm and watch TV together until we go to bed at 10pm.

Nope...separate living rooms so he watches football while I hide in the other or I work 😂

I get home 4.45pm and DP between 6pm-7pm then we have the evenings together.

About half and half. We are both freelancers and fit our work around dc. Both of them at school but young primary. We have no family support with childcare and prefer not to use paid childcare. So once of us is always around.

This means that dh is usually finishing off work in the evenings. He's at home but not physically sitting with me in the same room. But I like it that way as I enjoy my own company. It works for us.

We have dinner at 8.30pm/9pm, as soon as DH walks in the door. Then the DC have a shower and go off to their rooms, DH tends to wash up the dinner dishes, and one or both of us do bedtime stories. Around 10 ish we sit down in the same room and chat while listening to music, doing marking (me), reading, etc. for a couple of hours. In warmer weather, we'll sit outside, and the kids may stay up later although they just read / play in their rooms after dinner and shower.

The routine is fairly relaxed but is always the same unless one of us or one of the DC is out somewhere until late, for example, last week I went to watch a friend perform in a concert so DH and the kids had dinner and by the time I came home they were all asleep.

Depends very much on if either of us has urgent work on, as we both bring work home at times. But we try to sit down and watch stuff together otherwise.

Every evening from about 8ish to 11ish..

We have an 8 month old.

Yes most evenings, unless one of us is out with friends or DH is away with work. Usually spend 5 nights out of 7 together I’d say.

We don't live together but we spend time together 3-4 nights a week. He also rings me every evening for 30 ish minutes

When I was married before, we spent time together every evening.

I'd say it's slightly abnormal to have less than 2-3 evenings together in a given week... Most folk hang out together with the people they live with, most days