How much time do you spend with your partner?

TheConways

Wow, quite surprised at the length of time people are apart.

Mr. Conway and I are pretty much inseparable. He drops me off at work in the morning on his scooter, and picks me up in the evening. The exception to this is Tuesday evenings, when he plays rugby, or if I go for mid-week cocktails with the girls.

We go to the gym together, we always cook together, and we socialise together (although usually chatting to our friends individually before linking up).

I often travel with work, and this is usually our time away from each other - we miss each other terribly then!

We spend most weekends together - occassionally, he'll have a boys weekend away, or I will with the girls. We try to make these coincide typically.

HeadAboveWater

dizsiebubba wrote: »

Oh dear...

lol I know!

Me and OH both work full time Mon - Fri so breakfast together before we head out the door, then from evening dinner time onwards, plus all weekend. OH has full custody of his girls but they stay at their nans on a Tuesday and Saturday night. That's the only time me and OH have the house to ourselves. I love doing everything with him and sharing my every day life with him :happyhear

Me too, masonsmum. I used to be in a 'relationship' (for lack of better word!!) with someone I didn't really bother with either He did his thing. I did mine. Didn't see each other Fri-Sun, and didn't do much during the week either!

For me it's a good indication that I actually like (at the very least!) the person I'm with: the fact that I actually want to spend time with him!!!!!

Wyre

Not enough (from my point of view anyway)!! We've been together 14 years and married for 2.5 with four kids, and I can't imagine not having him around. He really is my best friend.

Hubby works stupid hours which involve getting up at about 3am and getting home any time between 3pm-9pm on a 16 week rolling rota so everything changes every week and it is hard to make plans. I take any opportunity to share time with him - shopping, we play online games together etc.

Four times a year I am away for the weekend with my hobby, he doesn't join in but does love making my props so it suits us both. He rarely goes out. I made him have a boy's night last year that was his first evening out in 18 months, he loved it but due to work/shifts it can't be a regular thing.

Torry_Quine

Dunroamin wrote: »

We spend nearly all our time together and always have done, having met when we were teaching at the same college.Now we're retired and my husband's disabled we're together virtually all the time, except for a couple of times a week when I see friends.

I can't imagine marrying someone I didn't want to be with most of the time - we celebrated our silver wedding anniversary this year and I only wish that we could spend the next 25 years the same way.

Totally agree here with the sentiment.

Personally I don't understand couples who for instance holiday seperately or spend most of their free time apart.

Faith177

Due to his work last night was the first time I had seen him in 10 days. Normally it's 20 mins in the evening at 12:30 when he gets in before bed.

As of two weeks time I will see him 1 day a month. (if we're lucky)

We go to a festival 1 week a year that's our holiday that is it.

I went to Canada on my own this April as he couldn't get time off work and doesn't have a passport. We have never spent a Christmas together (in 4 years this year) only 1 New Year's Eve & no Valentine's Days. We have never spent his Birthday together and I'm convinced we will get married by Skype

HeadAboveWater

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww I'd be gutted!!

Torry_Quine

Faith177 wrote: »

Due to his work last night was the first time I had seen him in 10 days. Normally it's 20 mins in the evening at 12:30 when he gets in before bed.

As of two weeks time I will see him 1 day a month. (if we're lucky)

We go to a festival 1 week a year that's our holiday that is it.

I went to Canada on my own this April as he couldn't get time off work and doesn't have a passport. We have never spent a Christmas together (in 4 years this year) only 1 New Year's Eve & no Valentine's Days. We have never spent his Birthday together and I'm convinced we will get married by Skype

We were married for six years before we spent Christmas day together as at least one of us was working!

Faith177

Yeah he has to work every Christmas as there is a company ban on Christmas, New Years, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentines Day and bank holidays.

He works for a pub so because everyone else wants to celebrate we can't lol (sorry that sounds so bitter but I hope you know what I mean)

maman

zaksmum wrote: »

O/H is retired now so we're together all the time.

Still going strong after over 40 years of marriage!

Judi wrote: »

Very little. He has worked away for about 12 years. He comes back most weekends where we tend to spend the day together but on an evening he tends to watch stuff on the television that i'm not interested in so i come upstairs and either go on my pc or watch the telly in the bedroom.

These posts sum up my situation. We could be together all the time but find we choose not to. I feel so sad for those who miss their partners or (perhaps worse still) are with people who make them unhappy.

DH and I have been together for 35 years and married for 32 of them (as of yesterday!:D). We have mutual friends and interests so spend quite a bit of time together. We also have some different friends and hobbies which means we go out separately or spend time in different parts of the house. DH likes to go to bed at 10 -10.30 whereas I'm a night owl. What we do almost every day is sit down together for supper in the evening and talk to each other (we have breakfast together too but I'm geerally half asleep then:o).

thegirlintheattic

Apart from work we see each other most of the time. Every few weeks we will have a night out with separate friends but we share most of the same hobbies and live quite far away from friends.