How often do you talk/text to your spouse during the day?

[Toad_Passenger]

Interesting. I don't feel compelled to avoid the contact either--it just doesn't occur to me. Maybe it is because we have been a couple since long before cell phones were around to allow us to be in constant communication so we never got into that habit. Our early dating years were while we were both in college. We mostly saw each other after classes (in the evenings) and on weekends but rarely had the opportunity to see one another during the day time (different classes in different departments)--so it is what we have been used to (communicating in the evenings and on weekends/vacations) since we were teens

We're in the same boat as you. We've never been "cell phone" people. I'm a computer/internet guy, who loves technology, but the whole texting thing is more irritating to me than anything else.

I give DW a kiss good-bye in the morning, and off to work I go. She goes to work, and then, at 5pm we reconvene at the house to play with the kids and enjoy the rest of the evening together. As you said earlier, I really don't feel that I'd need to say "hello" to her throughout the day. She needs to concentrate on her work for 8 hours/day, and I need to concentrate on mine.

 

[paintnolish]

We don't talk or text during the day unless it is something specific. Sometimes we'll shoot one another a silly email or forward something. We kiss good-bye and say our "love you" in the morning, always.

 

[Liberty Belle]

Never, unless there is an emergency.

 

[brockash]

Each morning DH and I text eachother to have a good day and love you ect., and most days my dh will call me when he's leaving work, but unless we need something else, that's pretty much it for the day.

 

[2binak]

Generally, we talk by phone twice a day. Once during the work day just to say HI and at the end of the day when DH is leaving work and I'm leaving school w/DD - we touch base to find out who's getting home first and what we'll have for dinner.

 

[Nik's Mom]

DH usually calls me during his lunch hour. I think he does it because he's bored. We only talk for a minute. He does have to travel on business at times. When he is out of the country, he will usually call two times a day. Once in the morning and again in the evening. He spends a few minutes talking to our sons, then he talks to me.

 

[LuvLDM]

I don't bother him at work unless I have a specific question or issue, then I'll call, text or e-mail.

 

[shortbun]

We talk usually once, maybe twice if it's a complicated day. We rarely text.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Well my dh refuses to text or even learn to text. I think its because he hates typing.

So I will usually call him between 1 or 2 or he will call me. Then after 5 to see how late he is working etc. Its less than a minute usually unless something comes up that we need to discuss.

 

[Kathi OD]

never unless there is an emergency...everything can wait until we are home face to face

This is how we have always been. Maybe we're old-fashioned, but when he's at work, he's working. I have some time when I could call (if I wanted to go out to the parking lot and use my cell phone), but it would interfere with him doing his job, and so I just don't do it.

 

[NCRedding]

DH and I work in side-by-side offices and never even speak to each other. He refuses to carry a cell phone as he doesn't want to be "anchored" by it.

Lack of communication is a HUGE issue in our marriage. (which I've told him often but he never hears).

 

[hopemax]

DH and I chat all day long via the chat option on Gmail. I don't work, and he has an IT job, so he is always on the computer. When I say "all day" though, it doesn't mean we are talking back and forth constantly. I'll say hello, when I get up and we'll share any news we might have seen. We might send each other an interesting link during the day, I'll let him know if I am leaving the house, he lets me know when he is leaving. We've been doing this since our college days when we sent emails back and forth from our college jobs.

We will text occasionally, like if I am out, or he is at lunch. Phone calls, rarely. Only really important situations.

 

[snapppyd]

We talk 2-3 times a day and email back and forth all day long.

 

[bicker]

Interesting. I don't feel compelled to avoid the contact either--it just doesn't occur to me. Maybe it is because we have been a couple since long before cell phones were around to allow us to be in constant communication so we never got into that habit.

While, by contrast, my wife and I met on an online chat system I owned, 20 years ago.

 

[binny]

One thing to consider too is what types of job we all have here. DH and I both work from the same office except when is on a call or traveling of course. When he is on the road and not in a call he is free to do whatever as he is usually in an airport and bored or driving (and using his blue tooth LOL).
I know a lot of people dont have that luxury though we both have a LOT of freedom in our days so we check in frequently. We certainly respect if one of us needs to do something else but neither one of us have coworkers we are disturbing or a boss we have to watch out for.

 

[SC Minnie]

We rarely talk on the phone or via email during the day and certainly not text (DH doesn't text). If we do talk or email it is about something in particular-- one of us is going to be late, or DD has something going on and we are reminding the other one.

 

[scrapquitler]

My husband works at home, so we don't text that much while he works if I am at home (though I will admit that sometimes I sit online in the living room and he texts me or IM's me from the office). If he is working at home and I am out, he texts me whenever he is not on the phone with a client or in deep thought.

When I go to work, he texts me continually. Never calls unless there is an emergency.

 

[princesslibby]

Dh doesn't text but usually calls once during the day. I (jokingly) gave him a hard time last summer for not calling to check on me. I said I could have been dead all day and he wouldn't have known. Now he calls and asks if I'm still alive.

 

[Disneycrazy!!]

My husband and I talk and text all day long. He calls me after I wake up, and tells me and kids good morning. He calls on lunch break or I will call him. He calls on his way home every night too. During the day we send texts and jokes to each other also.

 

[minnieandmickey]

hubby works 3 to 4 nights a week (police officer), and I work days. We literally see each other for 10 min every morning, so calling and texting is our only way of communicating.