Do you get enough "alone time"?

I used to get plenty at home. I get less at school, but still enough. My roommate is out a lot so that’s a plus.

I have enough. I guess it’s also nice to know that if I ever do really need time to myself (like after a huge fight), I can always take a walk around my neighbourhood (quite a conducive place for self-reflection, what with all the trees and quiet atmosphere).

Never. Maybe when the kids move out and the dogs die.

Good question…

I don’t I get enough, and I need A LOT.

I’d rather not get too much into personal things and explain why, but lets just say there are some moochers where I currently live who need to learn how to be adults and get there own place.

It sucks waking up to a crying baby and yo gabba gabba every morning ):<

I love solitude. I don’t get enough of it and am always wanting more. It’s a wonderful feeling when you can stop worrying about others and just be yourself.

How does being alone for twelve weeks sound?
Sadly, yes, i do.
Since i am in a long-distance-relationship, i have plenty of time alone.
Way too much, actually.
When we are together though, it’s much less (obviously) but we both know that we need our occasional alone-time.
And we take that time every now and then, be it taken inside the home or outside.

Yes, I do. I don’t need scads and scads of it, but I have my own room at home and I can pretty much be alone in there as long as I want. I also get plenty of “alone together” time with my boyfriend. I know this is all going to change drastically when I get to college, so I’m appreciating it now. :)

mistake post! Sorry.

What @rebbel siad. My girlfriend and my kids live in Manhattan, and I live in Upstate NY. I love my time alone, but I enjoy my time with them even more.

My lack of responsibilities and obligations have left me with enough alone time to last for years. No, that’s not a good thing

Now that my son is an cough~adult~cough… and since I am currently single, I have as much alone time as I want, and I try to make the most of it! Because I know that when I am in a relationship, it will be compromised somewhat.

My day off is Tuesday, so I get one whole day each week to do whatever strikes my fancy. On many Tuesdays, my daughter and I have movie extravaganzas. She lives 1000 miles away, but we both have Rokus, and cable phone service. We count to 3, and hit play. it’s the next best thing to sitting next to her on the couch like we used to do in the old days.

On other Tuesdays, I can read, take a walk, get some stuff done around the house, or simply zone out for the day. I love having a weekday off to do as I please!

Yes, plenty. I miss a house of people coming and going, miss seeing friends as frequently as I once did, miss cohabitating and all the couples stuff I once did.

Alone time? Ha. It’s rare that I even get to take a shower by myself.

I tend to shut off when I feel I am overwhelmed. Not healthy, but I just break down if I can’t get some time to myself.

@casheroo: This too shall pass (faster than you can imagine)... but it will be a rough patch in-between!! Try to create a time for yourself by putting it in your schedule where you get out of the house on your own to do your own thing. Also try to schedule couple time without the kid(s) as a standing appointment. It will be worth it!

@hearkat Aw, thanks. I know it won’t last forever..I mean, he can’t possibly want to always follow me into the bathroom haha. I do need to work on scheduled time out of the house, to get homework done or just something! It’s just difficult because my husband works six days a week, and he doesn’t get home until our son is asleep.

absolutely not. And somehow, when everyone else is having their long holiday weekend, it’s beginning to look like I’ll have to take a nice long trip to the bathroom with a magazine for my alone time :(

@poofandmook Hah! Like that’s gonna happen! Clients won’t let you walk away from the phone/radio long enough to read the first paragraph! Today of all days, I feel your pain. (scamp says while looking over her shoulder at poofandmook working her butt off)

she speaks the truth.

i did until college started 2 days ago _
i already feel awful… it was so loud… too many people, i was happy on my own for 3 months =(

hehe hopefully i’ll live =P

I love my time alone because it makes me enjoy my time with family even more.
Do I get enough of it. No- but life is not about me when we have kids. I get up in the middle of the night and sit in the studio alone when I feel like life is giving me too much stimulation.

Now that the kids are back to school I get plenty of alone time. I take them to school, go to the YMCA, come home and do my housework and then sit around until it’s time to go to work. It took me a week or two to get into my routine with out the kids being here, but I’m enjoying it.

I have too much alone time right now actually. Being a full-time dad until last Christmas meant that I spent almost all of the time when my daughter was awake with her, either cooking, changing nappies and telling stories, or simply being there and keeping an eye out for her in case she needed me or did something dangerous. But I always managed to multitask, and even then, I’d get at least an hour a day completely for myself once she fell asleep. Unfortunately nowadays I get 24.

@Jack79: ((((((hugs))))))

sorry didn’t mean to make this about me, point is I always had enough alone time, even when I was busy. But thanks for the hug :)

I have a little too much. But just a little.

I have all the alone time and me time as I could possibly want. In fact, during the week, when I don’t have my toddler grandson visiting, it seems way too quiet around here.

I live alone, for now, so I get plenty alone time. I’ve always been a loner, so it doesn’t bother me much. In October, the man I love more than I’ve ever loved another, will move in. I look forward to having a lot less alone time.

With my youngest now in kindergarten I was looking forward to more that 10 minutes without a question about why we have grass.

My neighbor thinks differently. I walk my daughter to and from school each day and Chatty Cathy thinks that now my youngest is in school I have nothing better to do than sit and gossip with her.

Blerg!!!!

@jonsblond I had that problem for about a week. Then I enforced my “work time” and refused to answer the phone and stopped her at the gate. Seems to me you have work to do on some interesting radio show right?

@jonsblond Just tell her that you have to go because you have to _______ (insert weird sounding chore here). If you tell her that you have to go bleach socks or sterilize toilet brushes or something like that enough, she might get the message.

@jonsblond How about a dose of the truth, you’re going to enjoy some alone time for a change, and you let her know when you will be available.

As someone who has no job (sigh), lives alone, and attends school, for, on average, 3 hours a day during the week, I would say, yes, definitely.

When I was living in the dorm, however, I never got enough alone time, and I devolved into a depressive wreck.

Alone time is very important to me. (Perhaps because I’m an introvert with issues?)

Yes. It’s precious to me.

I always make sure that I get at least an hour or two of alone time every week. Over the years I have discovered that I am the type of person who needs that alone time so that I can relax and sort of detox myself after a weeks worth of school, socializing, and work.
I think it’s important for everyone to get a little alone time, it’s good relaxation, and a good chance to get to know yourself.

@Dog @avvooooooo @YARNLADY Thanks for the advice. I was saved this last time by my phone beeping letting me know that my battery was about to die. I think that’s the only time I was ever happy to hear that noise! :)

@jonsblond: Can you set an alarm on your phone to go off around that time every weekday?

@hearkat lol Great idea!

I don’t think I get alone time, at all…I suppose when I practice yoga, that’s something I do for myself but I do it with other people…Showers are quick as well and there are always kids or animals around…and my husband’s always around too…but I don’t mind that one bit

I do now-too much so. I have serious separation anxiety now that I dropped off my only son to fend for his self in college. It really does hurt.

I work 12 hour shifts and spend an additional 6 to 7 hours sleeping so that leaves only 5 to 6 hours a day for personal and/or alone time. Sometimes that is enough and sometimes it isn’t. My days off are a little better.

I don’t know. Sometimes when I’m fluthering, I resent interruptions. Also, when I’m very focused on some task. Other times, I have too much. I like to be with people, but I like to be entertained. If an interaction with someone is fun, then I can’t have enough of it. If it is work, I wish I were alone—or with people I would be having fun with.