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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Poll: What do you & DH do in the evenings?
Do you spend your evenings together? Do you each do your own thing (ex: he watches TV, you read?) Do you go to bed at the same time? Does it bother you either way (ex: you wish you spent more time together or you wish you had more "you" time?)
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Re: Poll: What do you & DH do in the evenings?
We usually watch tv together while we watch dinner. A lot of times after dinner, we'll sit together doing on our thing (being on our individual computers, etc).
We rarely go to bed at the same time. I either get sleepy and go to bed or fall asleep on the couch and then DH will wake me up and tuck me in. He usually comes to bed a couple hours later.
Now that we are doing so much to the house, that routine is changing. We still watch tv together while we eat dinner but then we work on house projects or run errands together.
I like the way we do things.
My DH works 3pm - 2am 5 nights a week so I have plenty of "me" time. On the nights he is off we spend as much time as we can together. He does stay up later than me because he is a night owl do his work schedule.
I do wish he was home more but we make it work.
From August-May he has practice and games 6/7 nights of the week, so he gets home around 9-11pm. Sometimes I'm already in bed, I try to stay up until he gets home and at least read so I can see him for a minute. If it's earlier, around 9, I'll make him dinner and sit at the table and talk while he eats, then go to bed and he'll watch some TV.
During the summer and Christmas vacation, we'll eat dinner when I get home, then watch some TV (usually sports) or run errands, work out, go for a walk, etc.
For the most part we spend most of our evenings together. We don't spend our entire weekend together, so I think it works well for us. We go to bed together, but he is usually asleep an hour before I am.
In the past we used to spend nights together, usually making dinner, watching tv, drinking wine, exercising, hanging out with neighbors. Since I started my business though I'm working in our office all evening, from the second I get home to pretty much until bedtime. I try to take a break to eat a quick dinner with him... he's had to cook it for at least the last month straight. Sometimes he'll go to the local bar with our neighbor when he doesn't feel like cooking.
It kind of sucks, but we spend almost every weekend together.
Typically one of us makes dinner while the other plays with B, we all eat together, then whoever didn't cook cleans up while the other entertains B.
After dinner, we relax, have dance parties (B's latest obsession), etc 'til about 7:15, then it's upstairs to get B showered. He gets to watch a movie in our bed with one of us while the other takes care of whatever needs to be done (getting lunches together, taking out the trash, paying bills, etc..) and then we put him down between 8:30-9, then we get showered and go to bed.
Our schedules are awful right now and I really wish we could spend more time together. We get about an hour together a couple nights a week in the evenings and other than that, we just see each other on the weekends (and we both work most weekends, too). I get off work late most nights, when he's already in bed, and he leaves for work before I get up in the morning. It sucks right now but I know it will pay off in a year or two.