Time...

[brownbeauty80]

How long do you and your partner spend together a day..?
What is your daily routine..?

In the morning, just a quick conversation/cuddle/kiss/one will make the other a cuppa but we are rushed getting ready for work and the school run. We then text once or twice through the day to check in...a phonecall when I've finished work and walking to pick the kids up (he drives for work). When he gets home from work we are pretty inseparable. We will have dinner, talk to the kids/do reading/bathtime. Then when they've gone to bed we might potter around a bit but usually just laze on the sofa together and watch TV, play a phone game, game of cards, chat. We do spend alot of our time together which I know alot of couples dont - we regularly get roasted by friends and family because we read to each other in the bath 🤣 or we've been known to talk on the phone when the other is out on a dog walk. We just love each others company!

This is very cute...
Kinda like my husband and I...
We are self employed so work together too...
It's nice and comforting to have him around and still obsessed with me after over 20 years...!

I know a couple who live and work (mostly from home) and socialise and walk the dog together. They have done since their children flew the nest, before that they did work and live together but were very busy and therefore not actually in the same place as much although they don't strike you as "joined at the hip" and can happily do things on their own if they want need to. They seem very happy.

This would definitely not be possible in a lot of cases including ours 😗 We will never work together although we can volunteer together on occasion. We spend about 2-3 days a week in the same relatively small abode, either doing joint things we need to get done together or our own chores and work and study (usually a combination across the day) and the other 4-5 with one out and one homeworking, or both out separately, and have some separate hobbies and social groups as much as we have time and money for any at all at the moment. Our work schedules aren't 9-5/5-day week, so it can be variable. We go out together about once a month.

We spent way more than enough time together in the pandemic and so less is more at the moment. We watch an average of half an hour's TV together each day but it's actually in bursts of 1-2 hours when we have time. We also see mutual friends sometimes together and sometimes separately, and when a holiday is possible, sometimes go together and sometimes don't.