Parents, how often do you go out?

I'm sad to hear not many are going out with their significant others as much


I feel like stress is released and a better mom after a good night with my husband

Honestly I'd rather have friends over for a couple drinks and board games than go to a club anyways. Then our kids get to play together and the adults get to hang out by the fire or something - we do this at least twice a month.

We don't get out very much. Our kids are getting older but we don't have the time with all the activities they are involved in. We do more together as a family. I look forward to the days that we have the time to go out on dates!!! Hahahaha.... I think it's great that you go out with each other. Every family, every couple is different. We all do the best we can to be happy and stay together!

After getting a comment insinuating that we go out too much I am wondering ...

In general how often do you go out without the kids (anything recreational counts)

Do you And youe s.o. Go together or seperate?

How many kids and ages?

After having opposite schedules for a year, hubs and I now go out together one night a week leaving our 2 yr old with grandma for about 3 hours. I dont feel its excessive. We dont drink a lot hit clubs etc.

We try to have a date night at least once a month. We take the same car, so together. I have 3...2 that are sixteen(not twins step-sisters) and 1 that is now 10. We ave no family here, but the 2 sixteen y/o's can manage themselves and their sister.

I don't have kids and I don't think once a week is excessive...especially since you have a willing (she's willing, right?) and possibly eager built-in babysitter (grandparents can never get enough of the grandkids, right?).

Hahahahaa, I wish! My mil has babysat our kids 4 times in 9 YEARS!!! She can't travel across our city to babysit our kids but can travel to the other side of the country to babysit for her daughters kid and that's sometimes for over a week.

I understand!! Out of my parents AND my in-laws, none of them have even seen my son in 4 years...and he's only 8! He doesn't even know what having a grandparent is like.

I'm so sorry to hear this, it's just horrible for the children.

I have Pool nights every week, and my husband has his Pool night a different day. Our 5 year old LOVES to go to either my parents or my husbands Mom's house. Nearly every weekend one set of grandparents is begging for him. We let him because it's a win for everyone. And I do realize how increadibly lucky we are. Normally it's our pool nights, and then every other weekend that we both go out together. I have never had to hire a babysitter for evening/weekend recreation. If a grandparent wasn't available, we wouldn't go out.

My children are 8 and 6
Realistically we go out together about once every 3 months but we are away for a week this year without the kids !
We go out fairly regularly separately

My situation is different. I am divorced, so the ex has them every Sunday. Me and the BF go out together pretty much every Sunday. Going out for a girls night happens once a month.

My kids are 3 and 6.

I am 33 (34 next month), my husband is 35. We have an almost 13 YO Boy and a 7 YO Girl. We hardly ever go out. Even when Grama takes them because she wants them to stay OR if one goes to a friends house to spend the night and the other goes to Gramas. My husband works out of town from Mon-Fri and so I am a single mom all week, so no going out then. And when he gets home on the weekend he likes to relax. He does go hunting and fishing with his buddies and leaves the kids with me, so I do not get to go out and have any fun. But OH WELL. That is life. IF I want to go out while he is hunting or fishing I will get a sitter and go, but that never happens.

What is really not good is the fact that we had some problems last year and almost split and decided then that we would have a "kid free" date night once a month. That has only happened maybe 3 times since June of 2012 and it has been because I have planned it.

OK.. well I am done ranting. I am sure I did not help you LOL.. but I see nothing wrong with going out occasionally without your kids.

I don't have kids and I don't think once a week is excessive...especially since you have a willing (she's willing, right?) and possibly eager built-in babysitter (grandparents can never get enough of the grandkids, right?).

Hahahahaa, I wish! My mil has babysat our kids 4 times in 9 YEARS!!! She can't travel across our city to babysit our kids but can travel to the other side of the country to babysit for her daughters kid and that's sometimes for over a week.

I understand. I wish I could say it's my MIL, but it's my parents (they are divorced and both remarried). My father doesn't have anything to do with my kids (for example, they (my father and step-mom) don't even know their ages), and my mother is a very self-centered type. Deep down I know she loves my kids, but rarely asks to see them. My daughter (9 yo) has never stayed the night with my mom.

My MIL will see them, but only on her terms and only for a couple of hours. She says her nerves can't handle them. They are 11 (almost 12) and 9, and both very well behaved. It's life and we deal.