Say your partner is gone for around a week, and you're home alone. What are you going to do that you wouldn't normally with someone around?

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MurrayL@lemmy.world · 108 pts · 287d (6 replies)

Based on experience: play video games for too long instead of eating, watch movies they don’t normally enjoy, and forget to go to sleep at a reasonable time.

kubica@fedia.io · 29 pts · 287d

Fucked up sleep pattern for the win.

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 287d

This

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 286d (3 replies)

A dog or a cat may help with the last one. They will let you stay up too late, but they won't let you sleep in.

MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 3 pts · 285d

My dog is a 13 years old couch potato. He gets angry when I try to get him outside while its still dark :D

WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d (1 reply)

Oh dear lord. My 5 year old shiba has been deciding by that 4am is suddenly an appropriate time to ask to go to the bathroom when I even limit water after a certain point at night. This just started recently. She used to go until 5:30 or so and still sometimes does. It seems random, so I don’t think it’s a UTI or anything.

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d

My girls are both 8, but they don't have a specific time. They just go by the sun coming up, lol.

Acamon@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 287d (3 replies)

Eat at arbitrary times when I'm hungry, and eat lots of spicy food. Smoke weed and play computer games. Feel a bit lonely.

kinther@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 287d

+1

ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 287d (1 reply)

That sounds wonderful, even the lonely part. I feel we don't appreciate the valance that some time alone can bring since we are social (ish) animals.

Acamon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 286d

It's hugely valuable. I love my partner deeply, but I often fall into a trap of imagining that life was simpler an dmore fun when I didn't have to care about another person's needs and could just be the goblin inside. But when I actually get the chance, the novelty wears off pretty quick and I'm so happy when they're back.

solrize@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 287d

Vacuum under my bed in the middle of the night. That's what passes as excitement for me.

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 25 pts · 287d

Go to that restaurant she hates. Turn the thermostat down. A bunch of carpentry and other home-improvement.

Icytrees@sh.itjust.works · 23 pts · 287d (2 replies)

Not mushrooms, again.

Before my partner left for a work trip he showed me his stash of mushrooms in the freezer.

I wasn't big into mushrooms since my first and only trip to that date, where I spent five hours wide awake in my room, believing my curtains, lamp and bedspread were going to dismember me and absorb my nutrients (my curtains were an amoeba.) But my boyfriend made a pretty good case for blending up a microdose fruit smoothie and chilling while he was away. He told me there were different kinds of shrooms, that I needed to measure the dose and just create a chill vibe.

Day one, I didn't even think about the freezer stash. By day three I was so bored and alone I figured, what the hell?

Anyway, he came home to an impressive blanket fort in the living room and a box of farraday mesh fabric I bought to stop the robots because I watched Ex Machina.

Grimm665@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 15 pts · 287d (1 reply)

I'd diagnose this response as 10% the effect of mushrooms and 90% the effect of watching Ex Machina alone. I walked out of my room at 1am shell shocked from that movie and had a quick conversation with my roommate in the kitchen that i remember nothing about except how reassured i felt that she wasn't a robot. Excellent movie.

Icytrees@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 287d

Sounds like I picked the wrong movie to watch on shrooms. Or... the right one.

Watching Splice on ecstacy was worse.

SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 287d

klemptor@startrek.website · 23 pts · 287d (1 reply)

Cook food that he doesn't like

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 286d

I can eat the stuff that literally kills him. At home. Without worry!

smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 22 pts · 287d (2 replies)

Go to bed on time finally

lemmyman@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 287d (1 reply)

Humblebrag

smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 15 pts · 287d

Nah. She is a night-owl and always stays up for hours later than myself. Which makes it really hard to get up from the couch and go to bed for me in turn.

janNatan@lemmy.ml · 19 pts · 286d (1 reply)

I would do absolutely nothing differently, except I would have trouble falling asleep.

I'm an introvert, and I chose my husband specifically because being alone with him feels just as good as being alone.

...Well, most of the time. (He does get on my nerves occasionally.)

k_rol@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 284d

You sound like my wife

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 15 pts · 287d
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Aliya@feddit.org · 14 pts · 287d

Would invite my best friend for a sleepover, and we’d watch movies or a series together that he would never watch with me.

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 14 pts · 287d (4 replies)

I ain't wearing any pants.

Trex202@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 287d (3 replies)

They're asking what you would do differently

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 17 pts · 287d (2 replies)

I have not yet had a relationship where my SO didn't force me to wear pants around my own house. 😭

toomanypancakes@piefed.world · 9 pts · 287d

That's criminal, you need to demand leg freedom

Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 286d

You're making me glad I'm single. Home is where the nekid is. Anything else is criminal. If I'm wearing pants at home it's either because I'm waiting on a delivery or cooking bacon.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 287d

Definitely binge gaming.

Jojowski@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 287d

Listen to music I was into in my teens & twenties and sing out loud. Cook grub. Clean the flat. Read books on couch and go to sleep early. Probably start a project that will be left unfinished on the table. Enjoy the peace & quiet. Then walk around talking to myself and get annoyed for being lonely and bored.

gnomesaiyan@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 286d (1 reply)

Completely reorganize the kitchen, including cutlery drawers, appliances, and so on. Clean out the fridge and freezer, wiping down the walls and shelves. Organize and rotate all jars, cans, and boxes of food forward, like you'd see in a grocery store. Do this to the pantry as well. Top to bottom kitchen cleaning: sweep, mop, wipe down all surfaces.

Then, as a reward, I'll slap my dragon dildo on the kitchen island and have my way with it while watching yuri on my Samsung fridge, covering myself in whipped cream and fruit syrups, losing myself multiple times right before I finally serve myself dessert. Yum.

yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 286d

I was going to put something different, but id like to change my answer. This is the correct one.

xpey@piefed.social · 11 pts · 287d (1 reply)

def having music on 24/7

bulletproof_kell@piefed.social · 1 pts · 180d

lame why would you wait til im not there

invertedspear@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 285d

My wife’s a meal planner, I’m more of a ‘whatever’s in the house’ type of cook. Just throw random shit together if it even sounds close to good. So I’d probably just do lots of stir-fries of all the random ingredients for planned meals that didn’t happen but still live in our freezer.

She’d return to what appears to be freezer that I cleaned out, and I will have put next to no thought into cooking.

DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 9 pts · 286d

Catch up on video games, reading, and maybe some shows they don't care for.

Boozilla@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 287d
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RebekahWSD@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 287d

Assuming twin went with partner to make the house truly empty, I'd be calling both of them each day, and otherwise dancing with the cat. She's nervous so less people maybe she'd let me affectionate her more.

thericofactor@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 287d

Watch a horror movie

Denjin@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 287d (4 replies)

Jazz mags

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 287d (3 replies)

Jizz mags

roofuskit@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 287d (1 reply)

Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 287d

Yes, but don't judge my kink.

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Denjin@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 287d

Exactly

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 285d

Time to get some lube, plugs, and dildos and get into anal

Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 287d

If you had asked few months ago I would've said that I'd watch outrageous amounts of porn and consume substances but now I'd just do more of what I would normally be doing anyway. Well, maybe I'd watch a movie or two. Perhaps go to sauna and have few beers.

AA5B@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 285d

While I’m sure I’d have ambitious ideas, mostly no

  • no shoes
  • no thinking, planning or scheduling
  • no bed time
  • no pants

But a few more

  • more garlic
  • more spice
  • more meals she would never eat.
  • and a key lime pie, dammit
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 286d

Lots of porn I assume

bremen15@feddit.org · 5 pts · 286d

Lots of garlic in the food

errror@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 286d

Play video games, watch movies they don't like and invite friends over for game night or cocktails mixing and hookah!

Drbreen@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 286d

Find out how many times I can hammer one off before it starts to hurt.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 284d

Good time for disruptive projects like electrical work and power tools inside

clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 285d

Corncakes whenever I remember that I have a stomach!

SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 285d

Shit with the door open

Nothing else changes

pwalshj@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 282d

Heh. I asked my friend this question once and his simple reply was, "Peanut Butter Cap'n Crunch"

doc@fedia.io · 2 pts · 287d