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1-2x a week. He plays in a basketball league once a week, and after the games they'll go hangout with some beer to celebrate or drink their sorrows away depending on if they win or lose. Then every once in awhile he'll go out to happy hour with his coworkers, or do something else with the guys. For the most part, he's really good about being available and present during the kids' waking hours though, so he usually tries to schedule his nights out after the kids go to bed! Or if he goes to happy hour he'll come back before bedtime so that he can help put them to sleep.

Pretty much never, but he doesn't pursue it either. He doesn't have any friends here and even if I encourage him to go out with people he has met, or go to the gym - he prefers to stay home.

He never leaves the house but stays home and plats video games/does his own thing separate from us 3-4x a week

Usually once or twice a week he'll go over to his parents and hang out with my FIL. He gets plenty of time to relax at home, too.

It depends what you define as "me" time. He gets 40 minutes in the car, twice a day, on his commute to work.

He also gets a few hours to himself after Chloe has gone to sleep & before he heads to bed.

If you mean out if the house activities, it's not as often as it had been before. He went snowboarding once this whole winter, and will start training for a bike trip soon (it's bike for ms & they go from Pgh to conneaut, Ohio).

He doesn't see his friends as often as he used to.

Virtually never. He dedicates himself completely to us in the little time he has when he isn't working his two jobs and studying for his part time degree. I am really, really lucky.

He has two week days off so he gets the whole day to himself!

He plays hockey a couple of times a week... I guess that would be his "me" time.

He doesn't get "me time" on a weekly basis, but he takes 4 four-day trips across the country per year for his hobby.

He spends maybe two or three full days a month on the same hobby.

We used to get at least once a week for ourselves pre-baby. DH would do something with friends and I would go to my yarn store to knit. I stopped going to my yarn store after a falling out and just being a parent. Last night, I attended an alumni thing while DH did the nighttime routine solo. We have nights like that on a more bi-weekly basis with lots of planning. Now, it's more like a couple times a month.

If anything, our structured dates have increased with baby because we really have to plan it out. Our couple time feels different than it did before.

Way more than i do.

My DH is really into running, golf, tennis... Our LO goes to bed at 7 and he gets home from work at 5:30. Not much time, so now he does dinner and bath with her every night. THEN he does his workout. It sucks I'm sure but I'm much happier than him trying to spend 45 mins working out between 5:30 and 7.

He also golfs/goes out about once a week, which I'm fine with.

Not a lot outside the house because we're both homebodies. I've told him to take 'me' time as needed but he never seems to want to... So other than playing video games on the weekend, maybe once or twice a month.

He goes to the gym 2-3 times a week. two times is early before work so I think that doesn't count, cuz he sacrifices his sleep for that... he does go one time over the wknd while I watch DS. and every cpl of weeks, he'll hang out with his bff.

He has a golf league starting int he spring too.

All in all, he doesn't get a TON of me time aside from both of our times after DS goes down for the night. So I encourage it most of the time!

Well... He and I both have time after also goes to bed to do whatever, but we generally spend it together cooking dinner and watching tv. Weekends we are pretty much all together, except for random runs to the grocery store or target (that's usually me) or him for haircuts or Home Depot errands. Sometimes he goes to the gym, but it's in our building on our floor, so he can pop down and back in 30 minutes and he doesn't go during "peak" childcare times like right after work when we have to make dinner, feed and bathe LO, etc.

I think of me time as out-of-the house fun time with friends, so for both of us it's rare... Twice a month?

He is sitting about 2 inches from me on the couch as I type. We're catching up on DVRd shows after dinner.

He's in a local tennis league so he plays for like 3+ hours every Tuesday evening. he's also in USTA (US Tennis Association), so they have a match every Sunday for several hours. If someone needs a sub for the other days of the week, he'll go play then.

He plays hockey once a week for 2-3 hours and sometimes grabs a beer with the guys if the weather is nice.

I'm counting "me" time as anytime without LOs; which mean DH has WAY more than I do. I am never without the LOs unless they are sleeping and then I'm doing things around the house. This is a big discussion in our house because DH doesn't feel that his time away working on a start-up business should count as "me" time but I do because of my earlier definition. I get the two hours of my daily commute plus the 8 hours I'm at work alone.