...how often do you and your significant other have date nights?
ETA: Date nights as in leaving the house and having someone watch your kids.
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We have the babysitter stay late, or get a different sitter for the evening. It makes for long days for the boys. I can't wait to be able to have sleepover parties with friends.
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I didn't vote, but my husband I have day dates while the kids are in school. We'll go to the movies and out to lunch or something. We'll do that every 1-2 months usually.
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Once a month. We set up a swap with our neighbors and that’s working out well. Dates are 7-11 or so. Kids are fed, clean, and in jammies so the “babysitter” just reads stories and puts them to bed before watching TV. We’ve both said we’re fine with the other dad watching the kids but somehow it’s always the moms.
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@Adira: We do that too - actually, this survey is part of a larger argument to convince DH that there's also merit in having actual dates at night to actual events.
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Rarely - its just too expensive!
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Once or twice a month. We have a nanny for the days I work and she’s always happy to watch them more if we ask her.
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Before we moved we were in a good habit of once a month. It’s been a year and we haven’t had good luck making that happen. My goal is to find a babysitter again and get into a monthly habit. It’s expensive, but the difference it makes it our marriage is worth it.
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I had to pick the last option, because it's once a year.
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Maybe every four months or so. We often need sitters to cover our work/class overlap so we don't get date night sitters too often otherwise.
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Not often. My mom comes to visit a lot so when she’s here cram in the dates as much as possible!
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We go pretty much weekly. We have a sitter who we set a schedule wth every month and I’d say 3/4 Saturday’s she’s free. We also do a weeknight sometimes if she’s not free on Saturday.
It’s really important to us so we make it happen.Obviously things don’t line up sometimes (she’s busy one weekend and we’re away the next) but we def never go more than a couple weeks without a night out, even if it’s just a burger down the street.
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My mom watches LO all week, so I haven't asked my parents to watch her on the weekend at all. My BIL/SIL live too far away. So, we haven't had a date night. LO is 18 months today.
I'd love to have a night out, we just haven't figured out the logistics yet. 
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1-2 times a year when we have a no-kids wedding or work holiday party. Since it's so rare, we plan ahead with family to time their visits to watch the kids.
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About once a month.
ETA we do have family- I guess I get excited when I see polls
But our last in town date night was when the sitter came.
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Rarely. Our families are close by but 1) in-laws don't drive so we'd have to drive them over and it'd have to be a day date. 2) my mom already helps with childcare so we try not to ask for extra. The last day date we had, a lot of things had to align together!
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We've have had two non-family as baby sitter dates. Once was when daycare offered Friday evening babysitting services. The other was when we both took an afternoon off and LO was at daycare.
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We moved about 5 months ago and that was a huge priority for me that for our first time ever to have regular non-family we could call on guilt free for date nights. We've averaged once a month. Wish we could work it out to more like every 3 weeks! I think it's worth it.
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HA! When we had childcare we would skip work and have a day date but now that DH watches the kids, NEVER! We haven't had a date since February, before DD was born.
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We try to do once per month. It's expensive, but worth it!
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twice a year if we're lucky!
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We schedule a date night out once a month.
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We went out this past Saturday. Prior to that it was June 10
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We try to get out once a month, but sometimes it's more like every other month!
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We do have family nearby but my parents already watch our LO twice a week and then my sister has 3 kids already... so they never babysit except rare occasions. Getting a regular babysitter is on my to-do list.
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About once a month, but this month we had lots of events, so it will be 3 nights! Wow! We get season tickets to the traveling Broadway series, so it forces us into date nights, and that's a good thing!
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Every 2-3 weeks. Our kids go to bed at 6:30 so the babysitter comes around then and just sits and watches tv so it's actually a really nice gig ha.
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Only when my inlaws visit - twice a year. We do have lunch dates maybe once every 2 months while the boys are at daycare.
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Not often but we have a sitter who comes for special things- anniversary or birthdays, or when another friend organizes a couples dinner or something. Lately it’s worked out to every other month or so.
@Corduroy: I need to work out a swap with my neighbors- across the street so we could just go after the kids are asleep.
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We usually go to lunch or breakfast together once or twice a week while the kids are at daycare. We have some friends who offer to watch the kids so we could go out on the weekends but we are honestly just homebodies and would just go out to eat anyway so the day dates work just fine for us.
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Our last date night was dinner on Valentines. I got pregnant in April and we moved away from MIL in June. We need to find a sitter. MIL loves close enough she can help in a pinch or when I am working pt, but we dont ask anything beyond that. We need a sitter.
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Finding a babysitter was one of my priorities when we moved to a new country. It's such a hard process to find someone you trust your children with but I really wanted to be able to explore our new city with my husband as well. It makes for an expensive date night, but I do think it's worth it.
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About once a month. My son's daycare teacher lives one neighborhood over from us and is happy to babysit anytime we ask. The kids love her and she usually brings her 8 year old daughter with her which makes my 4 year old daughter very happy! We don't do it more often because our weekends are usually already jam packed! We're doing a date night this Friday though because we've both been traveling a ton plus having lots of out of town company and we've barely seen each other!
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We are trying to save money so had gone on like a 6 month hiatus until we finally realized that cutting back on date nights was NOT a good way to save since it took such a mental toll. Now we have money every month for at least on Saturday night sitter and I also recently got creative with our nanny and gave her a Friday off and asked her to work on Sunday instead so we could attend an event together without kids. It was one of the best days of my life LOL.
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My parents are available to babysit, but since we already rely on them a lot for regular school pick up during the week, we try to limit what we ask of them on the weekends, so we make do with lunch dates for now.
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We have my MIL nearby but she is busy so we usually have date nights every 4-6 months?
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over two years ago...
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We go in spurts depending on our schedule. This week and next we have a sitter 3 times in 10 days, but we have a date, an event and our wedding anniversary! But after that we will probably go a month or more because of travel and holidays. It's really important to us to get out and the only way that we seem to unwind these days. Thank goodness for babysitters!
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Once/twice a month. We have a neighborhood kid babysit when we go out.
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@raspberries: We try to get a babysitter once a month but it doesn’t work out quite that often. I’d say we will have done it 8 times in 2017. But a handful of those were for required work events..... however, we try to go to lunch together once a month as well. In fact, that’s what DW gave me for mother’s day! 12 “coupons” for date lunches
DS is in daycare so we know we have coverage 8-6 M-F! Haha.
I'd love to have a night out, we just haven't figured out the logistics yet. 
DS is in daycare so we know we have coverage 8-6 M-F! Haha.
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