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[quote=Anonymous]My husband is like this, too. I am a mild extravert (right on the I/E line) - I like socializing a couple of times a week and also spending a ton of time just us. Not a party person, but enjoy getting together for meals or that kind of thing.

Definitely, I feel like we don't socialize enough and my husband feels like we socialize too much. I do a fair amount of socializing without my husband. It's been an issue for us through the years.

I don't know how amenable your husband is to trying to do some socializing in order to make you happy - something that works for us is for me to put invitations in our joint calendar and at the same time promise my husband that if we have dinner with C&B on Saturday night, he doesn't have to leave the house on Sunday; negotiate his willingness to go out a little. I also try to put endpoints in our socializing - like if we are going to a party, I promise we can leave after two hours, even if I still want to stay and chat. Then I stick to it and don't make him beg me to go.

(G_d, writing this all out makes it seem so sad! But honestly, when it comes down to it, I'd rather have a husband who prefers my company to one who'd rather be out all the time - at least that's how I can think of it when I'm not totally frustrated!)[/quote]

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