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I'm interested to hear how many hours (on average) of quality time people spend per day with their spouse. Let's say weekdays first and then weekends. Quality time meaning you're interacting with each other, talking, sharing, or doing something together. Is the amount of time you spend with your spouse per day adequate, or do you wish it was more (or less?)
Not including when either of us are at work, or when we are sleeping? An average weekday might give us 2-3 hours of "together time".
Weekends... shooo, who knows! Sometimes all day, sometimes half a day. But at least half of a sat/sun each day.
Do I wish we had more time together to spend ? sometimes...
Sometimes it's nicer to have that 3-4 day gap where we don't get in eachother's hair and can't interact a lot, it gives me a good excuse to pack our bags friday night and escape for the weekend somewhere to make up for lost time
Weekdays, my wife and I carpool to work, so we have 60-90 minutes of conversation or listening to audiobooks together. (They're great for people like us who "don't have time to read.") When we get home, we relax together with a glass of wine and dinner (typically 90 minutes), and then watch TV together or do our own things separately.
Weekends vary. Sometimes we spend the whole weekend together, whether it's doing something fun or running necessary errands (we consider grocery shopping to be "quality time," since we both enjoy it). Other weekends vary, depending on what chores need to be done, or whether one of us does something on our own.
Our busiest phase was when we were both working full time, had both gone back to college, and had two teenagers living at home. We always made sure we took at least 30 minutes after work to eat dinner, wind down, and tell each other about our day before we began our college homework. I still am amazed that we survived those two years (as individuals, not as a couple)!
I don't see much of my dh during the semester. Winter break and the summer brings more quality time. But, we'll hang out together for a bit in the morning and at night on weekends.
I'm interested to hear how many hours (on average) of quality time people spend per day with their spouse. Let's say weekdays first and then weekends. Quality time meaning you're interacting with each other, talking, sharing, or doing something together. Is the amount of time you spend with your spouse per day adequate, or do you wish it was more (or less?)
There was a time not so long ago, that dh and I were together 24/7. Due to extenuating circumstances, that is not possible right now and I am sad.
Evenings (weekdays), about 3 - 4 hours before bed. Weekends, depends, if we plan ahead to do something then it's an entire day or both Sat and Sun. I do have kids though and while my son is away at college, I can't see him everyday but my daughter lives locally and we spend quite a bit of time - so even though my SO complains all the time that he never gets enough time, there is no negotiations when it comes to my kids.
I do a pretty good job at splitting my time with the focus being on him (of course, it's never enough LOL) but I also need "me" time.
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