What do you and DP do on an evening?

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Especially if you have young children so can't go out? How do you spend your evenings?

We mainly do separate things and the only thing I can think of doing together is watching a programme and most of the time I'd rather just watch something else. What do you do to keep things from being boring?

We have two kids age 6 and 9. The usual routine is he’ll cook dinner as he WFH, then we take turns putting the kids to bed and doing bedtime stories. Then we have an hour or two where we do our own thing (video games, art, reading, relaxing in the bath) and then we get together at 9ish to watch a TV show or play a game together.

We don’t generally go out on date nights on often as we don’t have a lot of money but we enjoy the time we spend together- we also sit and chat about our day, the news, our kids. It’s fairly harmonious but not exactly exciting.

@DoncasterHombre

Eat cheeseburgers together, browse Fetlife and then go to bed for a mutual rimming session.

My kinda evening, although I'd prefer a fillet o fish

We don’t have kids; tonight we played Kirby on the Switch, cooked a ten minute gousto, played Sagrada, watched a couple of episodes of a comedy. I go to bed around half 9/10, dh stays up later and reads or watches tv

Or what @DoncasterHombre said.

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Absolutely bugger all. DP only wants to watch TV, won't entertain doing anything else, even once a week, and grumbles if I do anything without him. We have two cupboards full of board games and game consoles and I have nobody to play with. I'd be happy doing any of the "boring" activities upthread - just some respite from the constant bombardment of shite on the telly.

We walk our dog together for her final walk of the day, cook and eat dinner together whilst chatting about our day whilst listening to music, we then put our other animals to bed and finally watch some tv or just listen to music and chat, I’ll go out with friends once a week or so and he watches “man stuff” that I can’t sit through without gouging my eyes out with spoons! We are happy with it and not bored ☺️

Should add that’s our mid week evening routine, weekends are wilder ( we add a jigsaw or some other form of puzzle in the mix whilst I drink copious amounts of booze)

take turns putting DS to bed, if it’s me DH will make tea, if it’s Dh I’ll tidy round / sort laundry (DH still cooks) then we eat together and watch some box set episodes, have half an hour of our own thing, then go to bed and chat in the dark or sometimes have sex. One of us might be out with our friends (we both usually go out midweek rather than weekends)

The weekend is much the same except we might watch a film with a takeaway or go out to tea with DS.

we get a sitter once a month so we can go to the cinema, mainly.

I love it, in all honesty!