What do you and your OH do in the evenings?

[HoneyComb11]

Just that really?
Do you sit down together? Spend time apart? Talk? Watch TV together?

We usually all go for a walk (just a mile and a half) before we put dc to bed. Have a mug of tea. Then we watch a series on TV. We chat a bit too.

@StCharlotte I wish! At least then I'd get to see University Challenge instead of never having time to catch up with it when it's the only bit of bliddy telly time I have!!!

Really like this thread, its nice to hear what everyone's evening are like.

We're very similar to everyone else, I finish work early and tidy round and then have a bit of 'me' time before prepping dinner. Thats usually MN and coffee then meditation which helps switch my brain from work mode to home mode.

When DH comes in we talk about our day with a cup of tea while dinner is cooking. We then have dinner in the front room in front of the TV ( We're really into I am a killer on Netflix at the moment!). After dinner, he clears away and I might make sure everything is ready for the next day. Then we usually play board games (yahtzee is a favourite at the moment), cards, read to each other or go upstairs to massage each other. Bed between 10 and 11pm and up at 5.30am. I love our evenings, my favourite part of the day !

I do stuff with my (not our) DCs while he does work stuff or plays in his phone, we have dinner together if he’s home in time, watch TV, chat. We go upstairs about 9.45-10, shower, watch TV and chat in bed.

He drinks, we eat, we watch TV for a couple of hours (usually a Netflix series)

@daisy778 Is this for real?!!!! I'd love to have nice evenings :,(

After dinner with the children, hubby will be in the gym for an hour (we have a gym at home, I know we are really lucky). I will do an hours violin practice. Then Netflix or a good book in bed.

Forgot that hubby will Duolingo for a while too in the evening as he's learning Italian.

Varies! At the weekend we eat after the kids, they watch a movie and we eat in the kitchen and chat. I love it! We’ll then get kids to bed, clear up, I potter around/read for a bit and he does his hobby (making models). We usually then watch an episode of whatever we’re watching on Netflix, then go to bed (maybe for sex, or just to sleep!) We do jigsaws too, so might work on that with TV on in the background in front of the log burner. I realise I’m very lucky that we enjoy each other’s company so much!

Stream media in bed (Netflix or Amazon video), or talk if the internet is down. We talk about how annoying it is that the internet is down.

Watch Netflix mainly. Unless there's football on, in which case I'll disappear to read or watch something on my laptop.

We often still work as both our jobs are really busy right now. Sometimes we watch the news, we chat/discuss current affairs, cook dinner together, watch TV. One night a week I have an online language lesson.

We put dd to bed, have dinner together talk about work/what to do at the weekend/ideas for food, then depending on what time we have dinner we do our own hobbies for an hour or 2 (his is 40k model painting, mine is playing world of warcraft) then we watch TV for an hour and go to bed at about 10 together. We usually have a chat in bed for a bit, he will play games on his phone and i read. It works for us and we get a bit of "me" time and a bit of "us" time

One of us cooks, then we watch tv or rather, Netflix. We always have a series on the go.

For years we took turns to get one of our kids to sleep as they really struggled a lot of nights , so it's a novelty to have plenty of time to watch stuff together.

Pre-covid I'd have one night out a fortnight for a cheap and cheerful meal with a good friend, an evening each week at a dance class, and a night out a fortnight with colleague/friends at the pub quiz. And then we'd have the odd trip out to the cinema or theatre added on, either with the DC or with friends again as DH doesn't enjoy that kind of thing.

DH has always spent his evenings pottering in his garage, in the garden when weather permits or watching tv/youtube. He's not missing much in this pandemic as he's such a homebody!

My husband is like a teenager. Stays upstairs in our bedroom.

Cook, chat, watch TV for about 1-2 hours together, then go off and do separate things - bathe, read, bootcamp, he watches football and plays computer games, I come onto MN or FB to chat or do work admin.

We always eat dinner together, whoever didn’t cook clears up. After that we might watch something together on TV (last week we watched it’s a Sin) or DP does bits and bobs in the spare room while I watch TV or read in the living room. He runs a podcast and the social media to go with it, I’m often doing work stuff. Tonight he mopped the floors while I played with the cat - we are super exciting here!

I’m currently on maternity leave with DD 6 months whilst DH is WFH. We’re currently doing our house up so he usually does one small DIY job straight after work like put a blind or shelf up. Then he gives DD a bath whilst I make dinner. We eat, I feed DD whilst he washes up, one of us will put her to bed. Then we collapse in front of the TV (which is what I thought was normal!). We both like alone time too so sometimes I go to bed early so I can mindlessly scroll MN whilst he watches football/plays PlayStation downstairs. Sometimes I text him to bring me up a biscuit when he comes up

With the amount of people here watching TV, does anyone spend time directly interacting or talking to each other?

We usually sit together and watch telly. He nicks ds' Switch and plays games on it.

I crochet or nip into the kitchen and do some of whatever jigsaw or diamond art kit ds pretendeds to be doing this week.

I sometimes have a zoom with the girls and get drunk and giggly and dp pretends to be irritated by me 🤣
We stay up too late, moan about being tired... repeat

Mostly we read in the same room together or watch TV (a bit too much of that really lately ) while he games on his computer (ahem sorry he works on his simulators current one is rocket launching so I hear muttered comments about fuel chemical makeup then an Oh dear when it crashes and I try not to laugh) while I write , sometimes we just talk. Discuss the news usually. We weren't very exciting before the pandemic to be fair. Not a massive amount has changed.

@peapotter

Put the kids to bed. Repeatedly.

I like to sit in the corner with a cardboard box over my head in absolute silence.

He watches the news.

Repeat tomorrow.

Lol

We talk while the TV is on
We don't have the telly on while we eat. Also go for a walk so chat then.

@EarthSight

With the amount of people here watching TV, does anyone spend time directly interacting or talking to each other?

For us, we are not great talkers in any context - quite antisocial really - we enjoy a lot of silence. But when we watch TV we are always some form of cuddled up (his head or his feet in my lap for example), so it’s a form of interaction, albeit wordless.