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[quote=Anonymous]DH and I have both been working from home for the past 7 months and will be for the foreseeable future. Generally we each have an outside meeting and/or work at a coffee shop for a couple of hours a day, so we aren't sitting in our house together all day. We pick up our toddler age daughter from daycare at 4pm each day, then have family time until her bedtime around 7-730pm. Many nights, we each have to work in the evening. Weekends are generally spent with the three of us together the whole time.

I tend to go out with a friend once every couple of weeks, DH much less frequently despite my encouragement.

I feel like we spend way too much time together and we each need to rediscover, or find new, outside interests. In an effort to get it going, we are considering setting a rule that each of us must spend one evening per week doing something outside the house (one required, but up to two).

Have other couples ever done this? How did it go? I have only heard about the opposite -- couples trying to find ways to spend more time together. We do get to go out without our daughter occasionally. I/we just need some independence, and some time that is not spent consulting with someone else for every little thing.
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