Do you have enough alone time?

Question

Do you have enough "me" time? Like can you decompress with a good book, a podcast, a bath, a show? Or do you spend most of your time tending for other people? On average how much alone time do you have and do you wish you had more?

Just saw a reddit post where the husband drives hundreds of miles per week and expects his wife to be on the phone with him ALL the time. After the 5th hour if she runs out of topics, he calls her boring and says she feels suffocated

(Two Hot Takes podcast on YouTube, their latest video and it's the last story if you want to listen to it 1:31:39 is the time stamp).

Answer

I have limited alone time, but that's how I prefer it. I don't really have a need for alone time and I'm fully aware that's quite contrary to most people. I'm a SAHM and spend most of my time with my kids. When my husband is home he takes over being the default parent until the kids go to bed and I get to take a step back. Outside of kids my husband and I don't desire alone time. We were long distance for almost 7 years and even now 5 years later we don't desire alone time away from one another. We prefer to do everything together. Even when we're doing our own hobbies we are together and interacting. We don't care to go out and do anything alone, spend time alone somewhere else in the house, hang out seperately with friends, ect. We're fully aware that this isn't the norm, but it's just not something we have a need for. All of our friends are common friends so we hang out together. It's incredibly rare one of us goes off alone with a friend and it's usually me going with my best friend for spa and nail days while my husband and her husband stay back and have fun with the kids. I will say however that expecting us to be on the phone HOURS at a time during a drive would be ridiculous. The person driving would put on a podcast or listen to some music and only call if they were really wanting some conversation. My husband and I can talk ALL day long, but that doesn't mean we have to.

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I love my husband and although we can talk for hours, I'm not a full-time entertainer.. If the conversation is forced, it's not worth having.
I like to spend a few hours a week just on me - read a book, study, cook. Usually when I do that my husband will see his friends for a meal or coffee, so we both get the 'me time'. I sometimes like to go for a coffee on my own and just watch people pass by on the street. It's so calming lol.

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I get all the alone time I need and so do my partners and child. Alone time is extremely important for self-care and being able to recenter. It is a priority in our household.

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My fiancé and I live together and both work fully remote, so it’s important that we plan “me time”.  Typically for me, that looks like reading, crocheting, ironing sometimes going to Disney by myself. For him, that’s playing video games with his friends or alone. We get probably about 6-8 hours of “me time” a week. Some weeks we want me, some weeks we want less.

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￼Husband needs to find podcast to listen to. Ain't no way I'd be talking to mine. Is he driving for work? If so he needs to be working. Talking on the phone is a disheveling it's on Bluetooth. Best to keep it limited.

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