How often do you talk to DP through the day?

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Light-hearted post, obviously every relationship is different, but: how much do you communicate with your partner throughout the day when you're not together through texts, phone calls etc?

When we're at work we'll often exchange a few messages through the morning then H still wants to call for a chat at lunch. I find this a bit much and am often too busy. It's only 6-7 hours until we'll be sitting eating together! Then we watch tv and don't chat because we already know about each other's days 😆

Mine rarely calls but I'll get a few messages each day. Usually a pic of his lunch or a " looking forward to seeing you". Sometimes a more cheeky text. I love it. We've only been together for a year but my EXH was super cold and distant so I'll take this any day if the week. Each to their own though 🤷🏼‍♀️

Never contact each other when apart at all except for an emergency.

The only real exception is when I go abroad alone I will call when I arrive safely in the accommodation.

We are both working from home. So all day long.

Been together 18 mo. We text quite a bit in the day, but we don't live together, have kids through the week nights so rarely when they're about and then catch up after they're in bed. Voiceclips, occassional calls but mostly banter over text

DH and I work in different roles in the same organisation, and two or three times a week we'll have a short discussion about something important and work-related during the working day, but we wouldn't call one another at work otherwise unless the sky had fallen down.

Several times. We both work at home, and he gets distracted and wanders in to see me. I don't mind as long as he brings me hot drinks.

Very rarely.
He’s a teacher and I’m with clients, so no room for chatting.
He will text when he’s on his way back and ask how my days been and if we need any shopping. He’s always looking for an excuse to buy reduced bakery items at the end of a day.

Not at all. I'm at work and don't have my phone switched on. I'm sure in an absolute emergency he could call work and ask them to give me an urgent message.

He calls on his commute to and from work, and any other time he has to travel, and usually calls at lunchtime and again after the dc get home from school to hear any news.

Like the op, by the evenings we haven’t much left to say to each other . I think we talk more on the phone than we ever do in person.

Now we both WFH, might speak to him once or twice during the course of the working day. When we were both in the office then we didn't contact each other during the day, unless one of us was stopping by a shop or something and needed to know if the other wanted anything picking up.

I've noticed this depends on who I'm dating. And I'm old so when I first started dating there was no cell phones so I probably talked to my BF at the time once a week (I moved away for Uni and there were only community phones). When we were in the same town maybe once by phone but we spent most of our free time together.

With my recent ex we would talk multiple times all throughout the day (with some texting). We are both very chatty, and we didn't live together and we have very solitary jobs.

My BF before him never wanted to talk during the day and was very social so we would talk once a day at night before bed. Even when he moved in with me when he didnt have a job we never talked during the day as he was out doing other things so we didn't talk til I got home.

So I usually let my partner dictate how much we talk altho I prefer to chat during the day since I'm home alone.

About 5-6 texts a day. Sometimes none, sometimes more. Been together 6 years but don't live together so we'll see each other once or twice a week. He doesn't do calls though, and if I try calling he'd say he can't talk he's watching TV

I wear full PPE so it’s difficult to communicate with the person next to me.

Very rare for us to speak on the phone, about once every couple of months, and that would be for a practical reason (something that needs a more urgent answer than a text).
Most days we don't text at all, we'll exchange a couple maybe once a week, often I'm just sending him a link or sharing practical information.

I was actually going to start my own thread about this. My DP texts multiple times throughout the day. I'm up and out early so he'll text when he wakes up asking how my day is going. 9 times out of 10 I reply "fine thanks, hope you have a good day" but on the times I'm busy he'll then send the same text another 2 or 3 times. Then a couple of hours later, another "hi, how are you?" text. Again, sent multiple times if I don't reply. It does my head in sometimes. Then I get a sad face "I've been texting you today and you didn't reply" when I get home.

This neediness has only started in the last couple of months. Its quite bizarre.

He works evenings and even then, he'll text me to say he's arrived, and even though he's not allowed his phone on him, he will text when he's only an hour into his shift asking how my evening is going.

Personally I'd prefer to just wait till we're both home so we have something to talk about other than Covid

@Bobbybobbins

Never unless there is a problem. I'm a teacher so no time for chatting to my DH when I'm at work!

You know other jobs are busy as well right? Not just teachers 🙄

Occasionally text if there's anything particularly interesting/ funny (to us, no one else! 😆)

He'd happily call when he has free time too but I rarely answer - same as you, don't see the point in calling through the day when you'll be spending time together later anyway!

Never, I see him every night at home and we both work FT.
Even if WFHwe try and schedule lunch 30 mins together same time but do not otherwise speak between working hours.
Would in an emergency obviously, and have a family what’s app for uni DC so might see any message on that.

He works away and rings me if he's driving somewhere or waiting for a meeting and face times most evenings when he's back at the hotel, sometimes he just texts or I don't hear from him if he's tired or out with colleagues.
I rarely ring him as usually when I do he's busy so it's better to wait for him to make contact.

My sister and her DP text each other almost constantly when they're apart.

Dh usually rings me at lunchtime, dd likes to say hello too. Sometimes he rings on his way back home from work. We WhatsApp a few times throughout the day too.

Absolutely no communication during the day unless there is an emergency.
We are both at work

I work and dh stays home. I rarely ever text him and never ring him. The same when he's out with friends: he will go the whole day without texting and I only know he's got home when he walks through the door.

He might text me if he wants to inform me of something, eg a holiday cottage he has found. I might ring him in my lunch break once a week if I'm free and I want to sound off about something that has happened at work. But he's often on calls so not available. Yesterday we managed 5 minutes before he had to go on another call.
When wfh we talk more frequently and try and go for a run together once a week. But we work in different rooms so it depends on gaps in our schedule coinciding.

Never (both too busy with work, and neither of us are teachers ).

Just a few WhatsApp’s throughout the day, most memes or just funny things. Never phone call unless it’s a “please remember to pick up some milk” type call! I wouldn’t like to have to chat on the phone to my DP every lunchtime! I like to save up the mildly interesting things so I have something to say in the evening 😂