Poll for WOHMs

isabella22

If you work full time out of the house, do you regularly have 'me' time on weekends, where your DH and DC do something on their own together?

If so, do you do it for you or for DC/DH bonding?

DD is completely a mommy's girl, so I wonder if a small DD/DH outing or together time without me would be good for them and maybe for me.  The thing is, I miss her so much, I can't imagine voluntarily leaving her on the weekend.  Wondered what you ladies are doing

amiamish

No, I wish DH would...he works on Saturdays and then Sunday is a "family" day, but I would LOVE for him and J. to just go off on their own and do something. It'd be a GREAT break.

camrude

I do get me time pretty much whenever I ask for it. Same goes for MH.

I have the opposite problem - M is a total daddy's girl. I'm trying to do more alone things with her.

krub

I signed DH and DS up for a class awhile back, so he was taking him to that and I was hanging out with DD.  Then sometimes on a Sat or Sun afternoon DH will take the both of them to go play with a friend or something.  Of course, this just gives me time to clean in peace as my "me" time, but I still appreciate it.  I also take weird times out of my day to do things for myself.  Like I will go shopping at 7 or 8pm on a weeknight.  Also, if I need/want to do something, I can always schedule it.  DH is really good with that stuff, probably b/c he has plenty of "me" time himself.

JCS2007

I work from home FT, with some flexibility during the day, so I am lucky and do get a good amount of 'me time' since DC is at daycare, which I would go nutty without.  That said, I try to give MH the same opportunity on the weekends and take J out at some point for a few hours so MH has some time to himself. I also think it is good for them to have alone time together, so that DS, who tends to be more dependent on me, has some time with just him. So basically, yes, we try to do it for both of the reasons you ask.

katie277s

It depends.  I usually am with DS all weekend long, but if I have things that I need to do, I leave DS with DH so they can hang out together.  I rarely leave for a whole weekend or something like that, but I will go shopping on my own if DH is available to watch DS.

xbrooklyngrl

I think my DD and DH are pretty well bonded, he does everything in the mornings that I do in the evenings. We do a lot of stuff together every weekend so I'd say the three of us have a pretty strong bond.

Me time...whats that?

Temp159135562506975

Dh will often let me sleep in and he'll play with DS alone all morning so i can get another hour or 2 of sleep... but they dont' typically go out and do activities on their own.  We all want to be together as a family on weeekends. I don't want "me" time then- I want "family" time and so does DH.  Our "me" time is when we work - or the occasional book club, etc.

happ17

It?s not scheduled, but whenever I need time to myself, DH has no problem taking PAC out. When the 3 of us are together, he does prefer me, and I think it bothers DH a bit, but they don?t do things to ?bond? per se. It?s more to let me get some stuff done, or clean the house or sleep in. They enjoy it.

that said, we do prefer to do things the 3 of us.  

kylara111

I'm not sure if my opinion here matters because I work only PT (only 2 days/week) but lately, DH and I have decided that we each get 1 "me" day/month.  I had my day last weekend and spent it shopping without kids.  This weekend is DHs day and I'm taking the girls to my parents for a beach trip.

Even though I SAH most of the week, I feel guilty leaving.  DH does too but we need this time to ourselves to maintain our sanity so we do it.  Since its only 1 day/month I think its doable.

dnagal

DH and I pretty much split responsibilities down the middle, so he spends lots of time with DD during the week.  On weekends we are continuously doing things together, or me spending time with DD while DH does something himself, or DH with her while I go out or do something of my own.  We don't really have a plan or a schedule, it's pretty fluid and everyone's needs get met.

stacynikki

We pretty much do family stuff all weekend which is fine with me.  If I want to get out and do me stuff I'll do it during DS's nap.  He takes a good three hour nap so that gives me plenty of time to do what I want as long as DH doesn't have anything planned that he wanted to get done.  We're pretty good about compromising nap time.