What do you get up to when hubby is out

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Drinking wine listening to fav tunes and dancing feeling free

“so I had rare steak for dinner - he hates it so I never usually cook it.”

why not, ffs????

I eat really spicy curry and watch shows he doesn't like. 😎

And when i'm out, he eats carbonara (i can't stand it) and watches music documentaries (ditto). It works.

Not cooking
Keeping the house tidy
Watching crap on Netflix that he wouldn't enjoy (currently The Let Down).

He's away for 11 days next month. I can't wait

People like eating meals together and watching TV together so it's not surprising that they use the opportunity to enjoy things the other doesn't like when they are out. I also don't get the strong objection to 'hubby' that you always see on mumsnet. It's not my preferred term either but it's not like dear / darling husband is much better!

Binge watch crap like Say Yes to the Dress and 90 Day Fiance that he goes mental about watching, and make a cup of tea without someone whining "are you making me one too", with the dogs happily sat on the sofa next to me

I love his golf nights but sadly they stop when the clocks go back roll on spring.

What do you mean by feeling free?

Sleep in the middle of the bed 😀

Dp likes to watch tv in the evening once we are settled down for the night. I'm not fussed about it. So if Dp isnt in I wouldn't turn the telly on. I listen to true crime podcasts bit turn them off when he comes home.
I'm not expected to but I like to concentrate on the story and I spend enogh time in the house alone or driving around with listening to them its probably good to have a break from them!

I also don't get the strong objection to 'hubby' that you always see on mumsnet. It's not my preferred term either but it's not like dear / darling husband is much better!
Agreed! Hubby is a perfectly normal term where I live and I've been hearing that long before DH. Darling husband or Darlung daughter and similar is just ridiculous.

I dont know why people are getting so het up about ' what do you get up to'
When I'm out of the house Dp has 5live on and makes bacon butties. I hate the smell of bacon and cant be doing with 5 live. I turn up the heavy metal above conversation level when he ( and others)are out.
Not a big deal. I don't know why people get snappy over such questions!

I slip on a nylon negligee and my high-heeled fluffy mules, put a box of OMO* in the window, crack out the Babycham and wait for the milkman...

Then I remember I'm not in a Carry On film and it's 2019 and feel a bit foolish.

Maybe I should update a little and try walking around naked like Rachel in Friends instead.

I know what I wouldn't do and that's listen to folk rock.

*OMO was a brand of washing powder. The urban myth was that women would put it in the window to indicate to their "fancy man" that the "Old Man's Out".
My granny told me. Honest.

I do all day jobs or hobbies, like craft binge. This includes taking up the kitchen table, which he can't bear.
I turn out cupboards or wardrobes, spreading out uninterrupted and messily.
Lock the doors when it gets dark, just in case.
Apart from that, all the usual stuff I do when he's here.

Pornhub and chill

People on here don't actually say 'darling husband'. They type 'DH' unthinkingly in the same way people might say 'OK' or 'PM me'.

They're abbreviations that become neutralised through their contraction.

'Hubby' turns a neutral word, husband, into something twee and hunnesque.

If it's for more than a day I clean and tidy the house and sit and enjoy it with umpteen cups of milky coffee, watch just what I want and eat nice ready meals. I potter around the garden, visit garden centres without him whinging and generally do exactly what I like.
True I can and do do exactly the same when he's here actually (apart from the ready meals)!

Hubby' turns a neutral word, husband, into something twee and hunnesque
Some people like that, it's no big deal.
There's no need to call people out on their preferred term.

*People on here don't actually say 'darling husband'. They type 'DH' unthinkingly in the same way people might say 'OK' or 'PM me'.

They're abbreviations that become neutralised through their contraction.

'Hubby' turns a neutral word, husband, into something twee and hunnesque.*

OFFS. Who are any of us to tell other people how to refer to their partner. Seriously? Twee and hunnesque?? Get a life. Please.

FWIW, I'm not a huge fan of hubby or DH, but whatever, really.

When my husband is away, I like to make a variety of low-carb sugar free desserts and eat them instead of dinner. I wait for him to go away because I don't like sharing my pudding. Last time, I had mixed berry panna cotta (made with sugar free strawberry jelly), coconut and blueberry almond flour cake, chocolate almond flour cake, and chia pudding. It was immense.

Wank

I plan my next wedding

There was an old lady named Fortescue,
Whose netweb of mums went all picturesque,
So outwith her hubby,
She went down the pubby,
For something more bracing than hunesque.

I invite my boyfriend round

Hubbibobs
Hubbypants
Hubbitywubbity

I think I just vomited a little....

But lol'd at the same time

Google “Russian wedding photos”.

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