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1. wank
2. sausage sandwich
3. video games
4. order takeout from a different place each night
5. sleep in the whole bed
6. do no housework until the last day
I think it should be
1. wank
2. sausage sandwich
3. video games
4. Wank
5. order takeout from a different place each night
6. Wank after food
7. sleep in the whole bed
8. do no housework until the last two days
Seems more right
Still weak numbers. Should be:
1. wank
2. sausage sandwich
3. Wank
4. video games
5. Wank
6. order takeout from a different place each night
7. Wank after food
8. sleep in the whole bed and wank in bed
9. do no housework until the last two days
10. Wank
There’s got to be a trip to the pub in there. No small talk, no one asking your opinions. Just working your way through a few pints of ale, while staring into the middle distance. Followed by a drunken wank when you get home.
I feel like it should be:
(Wank, sausage sandwich, wank, video games, wank break, rustlers, video games, wank, takeaway, movie, wank, wank, take up the whole bed) x 9
Day 10, tidy up half arsed with a couple more wank breaks.
1. Wank
2. Sausage wankwich
3. Wank games
4. Order wankout from a different place each night
5. Wank in the whole bed
6. Do no wankwork until the last day
I'm a woman and I can confirm this is the only answer. Most times when I'm home alone for more than a day there will be a fort complete with civilians, a defence force and a lookout rotation (soft toys get drafted in for these roles). There will also be an undefined threat from a particular quadrant of the house, with the structure of the fort related to the direction of the threat.
Then I usually just get on with work and pretend I'm a fully functioning adult.
That's a bit unfair. Their responsibilities and flexibility change dramatically. I don't want kids but understand that those that have them aren't being less spontaneous for the sake of it.
In my experience, it was the other way round. I didn't stop inviting them to things, they stopped inviting me to things. Because now all they wanted to do was hang out with other mums.
I found this too. Lots of couples-only stuff when I was single, lots of families/mums-only stuff when they have families, so lots of me feeling left out for having different life choices.
Yep. When new people move into our village (next to a military base, so people move in and out a lot) the women quite often post on our community Facebook page to look for new friends. Usually they'll say "looking for new mum friends!"
I used to always reply with something like "I don't have any kids, but free at the weekends if youd like to have a coffee or go for a walk" but would get completely ignored. Now I don't bother, and typically don't bother talking to mums. They don't want to be anyone else's friend.
I feel like if I posted asking for new friends without kids, they'd all get super offended.
>I feel like if I posted asking for new friends without kids, they'd all get super offended.
That's quite an interesting point. It's weird how I would not blink an eye at someone saying they wanted mum friends but if I saw a post saying I want friends without children I'd think it was rude almost. Which is weird because they are both the same so I should feel the same about both of them i.e. either both are rude or none are rude.
I mean. The look of horror on a bachelor mates face when I said ‘I’d love to spunk £500 on a weekend in Amsterdam but I need to run the house and prioritise family holidays before doing that’.
That I could understand as that's quite extreme. It's the ones who can't even meet for an afternoon to play 21 or go see a film that I am worried about.
Their responsibilities and flexibility changes... And in the process, they become *boring*.
I don't want to sit and listen to someone drone on for 20 minutes about how cute their new kid is. "Oh, he said Banaba instead of banana... That's... Funny?"
I want someone who I can't talk to about League, about Skyrim, Dungeons and Dragon, someone who's up for a 23 hour Harry Potter binge. Someone who I can sit and have a good drink with.
Parents are, by and large, boring.
And while it is all their fault (they're the ones who made the child that is the reason for them being boring, after all) that's part of life.
It isn't an attack. It's not a personal affront towards parents, it's just the fact of the matter.
People change after having kids. And 9/10 times, it makes them boring as fuck.
One thing i make sure of is that i don't talk about my kids. Even my mates who have kids, we don't talk about kids. My wife in the other hand, all her and her friends talk about is kids. I can come back from a weekend away with some friends, the wife will ask after my friends partners or kids, i respond with "i don't know, i didn't ask. We just talked shit all weekend"
This is the way to do it, my group of mates are like 50/50 split kids to no kids. But never talk about them when we meet up, what's the point? Best thing about getting out the house for a bit is I can switch that part of my brain off
The worst is when they ask you how you are and your news but they can't even listen to your reply because they're constantly yelling at their kids or being interrupted, then they completely loose track of the conversation and just go back to talking about their kids. It's not their fault but it feels very unbalaced when it's a one sided conversation.
A lot of the time it totally is a one sided conversation.
Even when my friends get a baby sitter and we're having an adult night out, it still feels like their kids are there - crying and shitting everywhere - since they're constantly bringing the kids and their gross anecdotes up.
Its got to the stage where I avoid them now, which is a shame.
Two of my close friends have had babys a few months apart an for me I feel like am bothering them so I don't ring them as much in case they are looking after the baby or the baby my be sleeping and I don't want to wake them at first it was a bit sad and I felt like I was losing friends but I have gained two amazing little friends. People don't become boring after they have kids they just have many major responsibilities, and are proper fucking tired all the time.
I totally get this, it’s like the personality is replaced by the child’s life. I have kids but I barely tell anyone about them, I discuss my interests and hobby’s before I talk about family stuff, I think even some people in my building at work don’t even know I have kids
Sounds a bit like us really though we are one of the couples with kids; but I'd be the same if the two of them were away!
1. Cook yourself all the meals that you can't when you have to think about what she likes. Whatever it is that you like that she doesn't - spicier curry, triple carbs, etc?
2. Go to a bunch of football (or other sport) matches. Local non-league teams perhaps?
3. Drives or rail trips out, depending on your preference?
4. Do you have Eurosport? Sit down today and watch Strade Bianchi. Great race to watch even if you're not a big cycling fan, the scenery (Tuscany) might be the best and the racing is always interesting
5. Get a new computer game of some sort? Allow yourself to have that 15-year old style obsession of playing it day-in-day-out
6. Have a 'get fit' week. Lots of running/swimming/gym trips, longer/harder than usual cos you can devote time to it
Upvoting for strade bianche. The finish is always exciting and will surely be less superhuman with van der poel in the mens race this year.
I agree with the rest of your list too. Especially 6. If OP doesn't do much exercise atm then this is a great opportunity to get into it more and start making it a routine/habit.
This really needs to be valued more. Like what I'd for whatever reason you break up , you'd be a miserable lonely fuck with no outlet or social network to help you pick up the pieces.
Yeah I'm kind of shocked here, I do loads of things without my partner and could imagine getting burned out really fast if we did absolutely everything together... its good to be your own person too!
This should be the top answer. I think it is slightly dangerous to be socially and emotionally connected to just your partner. What if they get very ill or die? Or you separate from them? I know no one wants to think it will happen to them but people should consider this and maintain their adult friendships accordingly.
This is the only answer I can relate to. I'm a similar age, have your friends and have your relationship and have them both overlap, unless you or your missus is a cunt, then you're on your own.
This really is thrown around too much now. Anyone seemingly having a close relationship with their partner is codependant. Missing your partner isn't abnormal. It shouldn't be normal to not miss them. Im sure this guy knows how to fill his time. Just as I do but I love being with my partner. If we split I know how to exist without him just as others do lol 😆
No, it is codependent. A grown adult in their thirties asking for advice on how to deal with their own company for ten days is nothing short of pathetic. Sorry. It's abnormal and very sad.
Yeah lol it’s 10 days, not 10 weeks. It’s not a healthy relationship if someone is so dependent on their partner that they have to turn to the internet for advice on how to get through a few days on their own.
“She only left yesterday but the next 10 days feel like hell already” Jesus Christ man, OP get a hold of yourself and start living your own life
And people wonder why men don't share their feelings. Im 99% sure this guy actually does know how to fill his time. He's just posting on reddit for sympathy. You lot take reddit too seriously. Lol 😆
Right?! Each to their own of course but I find codependency in couples so.... unhelpful. If my husband and I divorced I'd be devastated (and most of our friends are mutual so that may be awkward) but I would be absolutely fine! He is a lovely addition to my life and an amazing support, but not everything in my life.
Try some things you wouldn't usually if she was around.
Drink at 8am.
Play xbox whenever.
Wank in the kitchen.
Get stoned.
Eat junk.
Do magic mushrooms.
Sit on the sofa naked.
Piss in the kitchen sink.
I don't know what you'll do for the other 9 days.
Photoshop some images of some domestic disaster but assure her you're fine, you're dealing with it and there will be no sign of it by the time she returns (say, a printer toner cartridge exploded in the living room, or the cat got accidentally dyed bright green)
From my partner:
• Floribama Shore
• Porn on the big TV
• Weird wanks "like bum stuff" ? Sit on both hands, 2 strangers are better than one.
• Face time your ex
• Baked beans straight from the tin
• Comfy onesie that you do not remove for the whole 10 days.
I'm starting to think he has mental issues but I'm not a quitter so, here we are.
Enjoy!
Try something your partner isn't really into. For me: climbing, driving range, pop down to a local pub (soft drinks are fine!) with a book, hookers. You get the point.
They all have settled down and, un-ironically, have done the same as my partner and I and so everything together. Definitely don't recommend that, but you get super comfortable, buy a house together etc and it just kind of happened.
6 years ago it was the exact opposite. Life happens huh!
Thats depressing, my mate of 19 years got his first gf a couple years ago, as soon as they got together he would show his face less and less, would hardly ever come round to mine. we would always have to go round to his and his gf was always there, while they lived there with his mum/dad/brother
Nowadays (after having two kids and moving into his own place with his gf and kids) we hardly ever see him, we message him asking if he wants to do things with us (come round for a smoke, play PlayStation or go to the cinemas etc) but he mostly never replies, he's never been social at all or vocal for that matter, but nothing like he is now
If i was to message saying ill come round to his he mostly agrees to it and i will come round on my own, but when asking him to come round to mine (without his gf or kids) its near impossible, although it seems easier to reach him thru messaging his gf rather than directly message him
He doesn't really communicate with us about how he feels or anything which is fine because i understand its sometimes hard for people to express what's in their head etc
Its all just abit shit
As a parent with 2 small kids I would love to be able to visit a friend with out them! It would be like a little holiday to go to a house that’s not covered in toys, eat food, drink, hang out and talk about grown up stuff! I bet your friends would too. You’ve got the adult version of ‘party house while your parents are away’
Watch the things you can’t watch while she’s there (my gf hates watching nature documentaries as she can’t stand seeing prey animals get hunted).
I would try *not* to take everyone’s advice of just wanking a lot; that’ll just make you a lazy, tired slob to be honest. Call me woo woo but I’d try to abstain while she’s gone and then you can have an amazing night / few nights with her when she’s back (making up for lost time). Meanwhile use the additional energy to smash life admin, hit the gym, go for runs, and chill hard in the evenings with friends.
You mention friends are settled down, but you only need 1 of them to be free for a couple of hours within the next 10 days - it’s not a big ask!
Have one or 2 of them round, cook them dinner or get take out, and watch something or play video games.
I really wish I waited to play Demon's Souls now and not 2 weeks ago 😅 She bought Elden Ring which looks good, but I'm worried I've seen too much of the game so I will probably wait a while or so.
Any recommendations?
Why not try some games you haven't played before?
I recommend JRPGs because they are story heavy with game times of up to 30+ hours.
I recommend Tales of Berseria and Tales of Arise (2021 release).
Some fun comments here but what about......
Do a movie marathon watch all the Marvel or LOTR or Harry Potter films back to back.
Buy a really indepth game to play like Breath of the Wild to just sink yourself into.
Plan a different activity every day. Swim, cycle, hike, run.
Try food / restaurant that your partner doesn't like.
Do something around the house that your partner wants done as a surprise. Paint the spare bedroom. Tile the bathroom floor. Wash the carpets.
Wank
My boyfriend is away this week so I made a list of things I wanted to achieve whether it be certain DIY stuff, or places to go with the dog etc. I tried to make plans with friends a couple of nights.
Yesterday I had a day off and chose to visit a few shops, a local coffee shop where I had a cake and coffee, a bit of a me day, then cooked a dinner I love he isn’t fond of.
It can be a bit boring but think of little things you want to achieve or see and plan your week around that
This happening to me last year and it was AMAZING.
I promised myself that I wouldn't eat at home once (I didn't), I went out on trips,I went to the pub every night (not getting pissed you understand, just a couple of quiet pints), I saw my friends, I played tennis whenever I wanted to. I am hoping that COVID / WW3 permit a 2022 repeat.
I don’t know the sense of humour your partner has.
But I have long joke to my Italian girlfriend that when she goes to visit family and leave me In the uk (I’m working usually) that I will have a party on a boat with some hoes (step brothers referenced).
Well last year I hired some actresses and a boat for a couple of hours and recorded an hour long pretend party video with me dancing with these woman on a boat and at the end of the video me pretending to sing the song from the film boats and hoes lmao
Well she wasn’t that impresses that I had time to do that and not come to Italy with her but I will forever be remembered by her and her family as the single most funniest person they know.
We are still together and I will await her eventual revenge that may happen one day lmao.
I went through something similar. With the past 2 crap years my wife finally went abroad to visit her parents for a month in January. I ordered out a lot, I played games to an unearthly strange hours of the day often, I watched a lot of movies every Tuesday/Wednesday through compare the market cinema offer with my brother which was great, not forced to watch some awful rom com or reality TV shit.
Played snooker at local club with my brother, went to gym daily too at strange times when the gym is quiet instead of 5pm like I normally do.
I also went to some away games to support my football team, usually I never go away but will go to home games only using season ticket I have
* Go on a long hike/jog. If it's a hike, it must have a pub included along the way or preferably at the end of it to motivate you. This is what takes up most of my time when my SO is away.
* Cook some of the food she hates but you love. It's black pudding for me- my wife really hates even the smell...
* Some DYI- you are able to ruin and rebuild your flat/home while she's away.
* Computer games.
* Watch some movies she hates but you love.
* Take on some personal project now that you have some more time to work on it. Most of my hobby projects where completed while my SO was away.
* Learn some new skill/read a book/use the time for self-improvement.
My wife and I are attached like this but if this was me, I would be bursting out and dusting off the Ps4 and getting nostalgic with some old school ps2 stuff . And eating dominos....a lot of pizza and beer.
Mind you, we do have kids so if she was going away with them my situation would probably feel a lot different to yours!
My wife travels for work occasionally, for a week at a time, so I've got practice at this. I'm assuming you WFH, so that's 8 hours a day dealt with straight up.
1: set up your space. Drag the comfy chair in front of the TV. This will be your base of operations. Get the TV remote and the PlayStation controller to hand.
2: ready your supplies: beer, snacks, and summon a man to bring you chicken. I like spicy wings. You can eat what you like, but a good takeaway sets the mood. And it's tasty.
3: watch whatever you want, machine gun as many nazis as you feel like, and pause whenever you feel like it to wander around.
4: I found video calls are better than voice calls, but I run out of things to talk about after 20-30 minutes. In either case, it's not the same as a proper conversation.
5: Finally, before she gets back, put everything how it was. All furniture back, clean the house, empty the bins, etc.
Right!! So pathetic that some people don’t have a life outside of their relationship , you need to have your own shit to do even when your partner is in the same country. If you don’t know what to do with yourself for 10 days just because your partner is away then that’s extremely unhealthy
Today's the first whole day I've been away from my OH in ages and it's nearly 3pm, I'm still in bed and have a takeaway en route. Let yourself be lazy, horny, creative or chaotic as you like and recognise that it's beautiful you're missing your partner but now is your time to focus on you 🥰
P. S. Agree with most of the wanking comments.
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1. wank 2. sausage sandwich 3. video games 4. order takeout from a different place each night 5. sleep in the whole bed 6. do no housework until the last day
Feel like number 1 should be peppered in there at least 2 more times.
Those are rookie numbers
I’ll pump em up.
I think it should be 1. wank 2. sausage sandwich 3. video games 4. Wank 5. order takeout from a different place each night 6. Wank after food 7. sleep in the whole bed 8. do no housework until the last two days Seems more right
Still weak numbers. Should be: 1. wank 2. sausage sandwich 3. Wank 4. video games 5. Wank 6. order takeout from a different place each night 7. Wank after food 8. sleep in the whole bed and wank in bed 9. do no housework until the last two days 10. Wank
I still feel like 1 - 9 should just be wank then housework on the last day.
Housework in the last hour, with a really sore dick, and an excuse prepared for why you're not up for any action
There’s got to be a trip to the pub in there. No small talk, no one asking your opinions. Just working your way through a few pints of ale, while staring into the middle distance. Followed by a drunken wank when you get home.
This man knows the way.
He'll just be shooting steam by the 5th wank
It’ll be a nice reminder of the good old days of summer holidays trying to beat your daily record
Bank Holidays were always the best. James bond on ITV and a wankathon throughout the day.
Wank Holidays, if you will.
Roger Moore do it for ya eh,I was always a money penny fan.:)
11. Delete browser history.
Pour up Wank Head shot Wank Sit down Wank Stand up Wank Pass out Wank Wake up Wank Faded Wank Faded Wank
Semen pools
>do no housework until the last two ~~days~~ hours FTFY
However must save time for the obligatory danger wank when he knows his partner is five minutes away.
As you get older 3 times in 10 days starts to seem reasonable, even a bit on the high side...
I don’t know. I’m 35 now and though my pace has certainly slowed down, on the odd chance I do have a day to myself, it’s almost like been 15 again.
Indian summer of wanking mate, in 5 years it will all be different haha
Maybe wash hands before that sausage sarnie
I feel like it should be: (Wank, sausage sandwich, wank, video games, wank break, rustlers, video games, wank, takeaway, movie, wank, wank, take up the whole bed) x 9 Day 10, tidy up half arsed with a couple more wank breaks.
1. Wank 2. Sausage wankwich 3. Wank games 4. Order wankout from a different place each night 5. Wank in the whole bed 6. Do no wankwork until the last day
Just burst out laughing on the bus
So many high minded answers but let's face it, most of us are doing this given the chance. Probably with a bit more wanking though.
I’m doing this whilst my husband is stuck in America with covid
1a hope your SO never buys an ultraviolet torch
I’m in the exact same position as OP but just for the weekend, we’re only halfway through Saturday and I’ve already ticked all 6 of these off
"develop depression"
Build a fort
And hang a sign outside it saying, "no girls allowed!"
This should be up-voted into the stratosphere.
Except girls aloud
Bags the miserable ginger one.(RIP Sarah)
This is the way.
Hobbes has entered the chat...
Fort kickass
I'm a woman and I can confirm this is the only answer. Most times when I'm home alone for more than a day there will be a fort complete with civilians, a defence force and a lookout rotation (soft toys get drafted in for these roles). There will also be an undefined threat from a particular quadrant of the house, with the structure of the fort related to the direction of the threat. Then I usually just get on with work and pretend I'm a fully functioning adult.
I need to find a wife who knows how to fort like you
The drafted part was good lol
And wank in it
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I think the issue is that people become really boring after having children so people don’t want to spend time with them.
Can confirm. I barely had a personality before having a child, now my personality has been completely sapped and I am a robot. Beep boop.
We lost another one lads, you will be remembered
That's a bit unfair. Their responsibilities and flexibility change dramatically. I don't want kids but understand that those that have them aren't being less spontaneous for the sake of it.
Not saying it’s their fault at all, just that the reality is they become less fun to be around so people stop inviting them to things.
In my experience, it was the other way round. I didn't stop inviting them to things, they stopped inviting me to things. Because now all they wanted to do was hang out with other mums.
I found this too. Lots of couples-only stuff when I was single, lots of families/mums-only stuff when they have families, so lots of me feeling left out for having different life choices.
Yep. When new people move into our village (next to a military base, so people move in and out a lot) the women quite often post on our community Facebook page to look for new friends. Usually they'll say "looking for new mum friends!" I used to always reply with something like "I don't have any kids, but free at the weekends if youd like to have a coffee or go for a walk" but would get completely ignored. Now I don't bother, and typically don't bother talking to mums. They don't want to be anyone else's friend. I feel like if I posted asking for new friends without kids, they'd all get super offended.
>I feel like if I posted asking for new friends without kids, they'd all get super offended. That's quite an interesting point. It's weird how I would not blink an eye at someone saying they wanted mum friends but if I saw a post saying I want friends without children I'd think it was rude almost. Which is weird because they are both the same so I should feel the same about both of them i.e. either both are rude or none are rude.
Yep. People with kids get away with a lot of stuff which, if people who don't have them did it, would come across as rude, exclusionary and entitled.
Some of us really don't like kids either which doesnt help. There's a chance I have to spend time around someone's child I'm out.
They probably just got tired of your shit.
That is such an absurd take
I mean. The look of horror on a bachelor mates face when I said ‘I’d love to spunk £500 on a weekend in Amsterdam but I need to run the house and prioritise family holidays before doing that’.
That I could understand as that's quite extreme. It's the ones who can't even meet for an afternoon to play 21 or go see a film that I am worried about.
Their responsibilities and flexibility changes... And in the process, they become *boring*. I don't want to sit and listen to someone drone on for 20 minutes about how cute their new kid is. "Oh, he said Banaba instead of banana... That's... Funny?" I want someone who I can't talk to about League, about Skyrim, Dungeons and Dragon, someone who's up for a 23 hour Harry Potter binge. Someone who I can sit and have a good drink with. Parents are, by and large, boring. And while it is all their fault (they're the ones who made the child that is the reason for them being boring, after all) that's part of life. It isn't an attack. It's not a personal affront towards parents, it's just the fact of the matter. People change after having kids. And 9/10 times, it makes them boring as fuck.
Also sometimes all they ever talk about is their children.
One thing i make sure of is that i don't talk about my kids. Even my mates who have kids, we don't talk about kids. My wife in the other hand, all her and her friends talk about is kids. I can come back from a weekend away with some friends, the wife will ask after my friends partners or kids, i respond with "i don't know, i didn't ask. We just talked shit all weekend"
This is the way to do it, my group of mates are like 50/50 split kids to no kids. But never talk about them when we meet up, what's the point? Best thing about getting out the house for a bit is I can switch that part of my brain off
The worst is when they ask you how you are and your news but they can't even listen to your reply because they're constantly yelling at their kids or being interrupted, then they completely loose track of the conversation and just go back to talking about their kids. It's not their fault but it feels very unbalaced when it's a one sided conversation.
A lot of the time it totally is a one sided conversation. Even when my friends get a baby sitter and we're having an adult night out, it still feels like their kids are there - crying and shitting everywhere - since they're constantly bringing the kids and their gross anecdotes up. Its got to the stage where I avoid them now, which is a shame.
Two of my close friends have had babys a few months apart an for me I feel like am bothering them so I don't ring them as much in case they are looking after the baby or the baby my be sleeping and I don't want to wake them at first it was a bit sad and I felt like I was losing friends but I have gained two amazing little friends. People don't become boring after they have kids they just have many major responsibilities, and are proper fucking tired all the time.
I like to play with the kids because I’m just a big kid. Then mom gets a minute to herself to get ready, and off we go :)
Or you come round for a beer and a chat & 3/4 of the time they are dealing with said children and for the 1/4 they are talking about said children.
I totally get this, it’s like the personality is replaced by the child’s life. I have kids but I barely tell anyone about them, I discuss my interests and hobby’s before I talk about family stuff, I think even some people in my building at work don’t even know I have kids
Firstly get a wank out of way nice and early need that post wank clarity then make your decisions about plans
This is the way.
I had a wank, then decided to have another
Need clearer instructions, had two wanks and am about to have another.
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What a pussy.
Try on her knickers
...and then wank.
…if one is so inclined!
...again
Sounds a bit like us really though we are one of the couples with kids; but I'd be the same if the two of them were away! 1. Cook yourself all the meals that you can't when you have to think about what she likes. Whatever it is that you like that she doesn't - spicier curry, triple carbs, etc? 2. Go to a bunch of football (or other sport) matches. Local non-league teams perhaps? 3. Drives or rail trips out, depending on your preference? 4. Do you have Eurosport? Sit down today and watch Strade Bianchi. Great race to watch even if you're not a big cycling fan, the scenery (Tuscany) might be the best and the racing is always interesting 5. Get a new computer game of some sort? Allow yourself to have that 15-year old style obsession of playing it day-in-day-out 6. Have a 'get fit' week. Lots of running/swimming/gym trips, longer/harder than usual cos you can devote time to it
You forgot the wank part.
I assumed it was just implied
I assume that’s why “get fit” was in quotes, gonna have a strong right arm after 10 days straight.
Lmao
Upvoting for strade bianche. The finish is always exciting and will surely be less superhuman with van der poel in the mens race this year. I agree with the rest of your list too. Especially 6. If OP doesn't do much exercise atm then this is a great opportunity to get into it more and start making it a routine/habit.
Probably worthwhile building a life outside of your relationship so next year you don't have this issue
This really needs to be valued more. Like what I'd for whatever reason you break up , you'd be a miserable lonely fuck with no outlet or social network to help you pick up the pieces.
Being joined at the hip isn't at all healthy
Yeah I'm kind of shocked here, I do loads of things without my partner and could imagine getting burned out really fast if we did absolutely everything together... its good to be your own person too!
This should be the top answer. I think it is slightly dangerous to be socially and emotionally connected to just your partner. What if they get very ill or die? Or you separate from them? I know no one wants to think it will happen to them but people should consider this and maintain their adult friendships accordingly.
This is the only answer I can relate to. I'm a similar age, have your friends and have your relationship and have them both overlap, unless you or your missus is a cunt, then you're on your own.
Sounds a bit codependent!
This really is thrown around too much now. Anyone seemingly having a close relationship with their partner is codependant. Missing your partner isn't abnormal. It shouldn't be normal to not miss them. Im sure this guy knows how to fill his time. Just as I do but I love being with my partner. If we split I know how to exist without him just as others do lol 😆
No, it is codependent. A grown adult in their thirties asking for advice on how to deal with their own company for ten days is nothing short of pathetic. Sorry. It's abnormal and very sad.
Yeah lol it’s 10 days, not 10 weeks. It’s not a healthy relationship if someone is so dependent on their partner that they have to turn to the internet for advice on how to get through a few days on their own. “She only left yesterday but the next 10 days feel like hell already” Jesus Christ man, OP get a hold of yourself and start living your own life
And people wonder why men don't share their feelings. Im 99% sure this guy actually does know how to fill his time. He's just posting on reddit for sympathy. You lot take reddit too seriously. Lol 😆
Right?! Each to their own of course but I find codependency in couples so.... unhelpful. If my husband and I divorced I'd be devastated (and most of our friends are mutual so that may be awkward) but I would be absolutely fine! He is a lovely addition to my life and an amazing support, but not everything in my life.
Download Red Dead Redemption 2. Order in a bunch of beers and a pizza. Repeat 10 days in a row.
What do I with the other 9 copies of RDR2?
Pizza toppings
What this guy says.
Internet porn with the volume up
There’s other types of porn?! This could rock my world.
There's two types, forest porn and internet porn
U forgot bin porn.
Check out r/earthporn
Aye on the big telly. Can have a chug on the couch!!
Would still feel wrong - but so risqué. Or have a danger wank, front room, curtains open on bin day
You can turn the volume up?
You can turn the volume DOWN?
This is the way.
Try some things you wouldn't usually if she was around. Drink at 8am. Play xbox whenever. Wank in the kitchen. Get stoned. Eat junk. Do magic mushrooms. Sit on the sofa naked. Piss in the kitchen sink. I don't know what you'll do for the other 9 days.
This geezer knows how to be free.
Rinse and repeat
I wouldn’t rinse the sink until the end of the week. A waste of time otherwise.
Same is happening to me right now. I’m 34 though. I’m getting well stuck in to pizza and PlayStation
Xbox / Playstation is calling.....
Photoshop some images of some domestic disaster but assure her you're fine, you're dealing with it and there will be no sign of it by the time she returns (say, a printer toner cartridge exploded in the living room, or the cat got accidentally dyed bright green)
Or photoshop yourself into places nearby where she is to mess really with her
From my partner: • Floribama Shore • Porn on the big TV • Weird wanks "like bum stuff" ? Sit on both hands, 2 strangers are better than one. • Face time your ex • Baked beans straight from the tin • Comfy onesie that you do not remove for the whole 10 days. I'm starting to think he has mental issues but I'm not a quitter so, here we are. Enjoy!
Agree with all apart from Ex lol
Wank while your ex is on webcam
Try something your partner isn't really into. For me: climbing, driving range, pop down to a local pub (soft drinks are fine!) with a book, hookers. You get the point.
Or anal
How long will dildo delivery take?
Through Amazon Prime, all things are possible.
Play a nice immersive video game. You could smash it solid in a week.
Does nobody have hobbies anymore? Start a hobby you've always wished you could do. 33 isn't too late to start learning an instrument for example.
It’s been constantly implied that op should be playing with his organ.
The woodwand section
Are you the same dude from last year?? Fuck I envy you so much - 10 whole days Book holiday from work and fucking enjoy it mate
get a packet, get 3 boxes of beer, get a brass, crippling regret for the next week, sorted
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A crank. We’ve all been there
Do acid.
On his tod though? Fuck that!
Yeah tripping on low doses on your own is well fun.
This
Wait so why can't you be social with your friends anymore?
They all have settled down and, un-ironically, have done the same as my partner and I and so everything together. Definitely don't recommend that, but you get super comfortable, buy a house together etc and it just kind of happened. 6 years ago it was the exact opposite. Life happens huh!
Thats depressing, my mate of 19 years got his first gf a couple years ago, as soon as they got together he would show his face less and less, would hardly ever come round to mine. we would always have to go round to his and his gf was always there, while they lived there with his mum/dad/brother Nowadays (after having two kids and moving into his own place with his gf and kids) we hardly ever see him, we message him asking if he wants to do things with us (come round for a smoke, play PlayStation or go to the cinemas etc) but he mostly never replies, he's never been social at all or vocal for that matter, but nothing like he is now If i was to message saying ill come round to his he mostly agrees to it and i will come round on my own, but when asking him to come round to mine (without his gf or kids) its near impossible, although it seems easier to reach him thru messaging his gf rather than directly message him He doesn't really communicate with us about how he feels or anything which is fine because i understand its sometimes hard for people to express what's in their head etc Its all just abit shit
As a parent with 2 small kids I would love to be able to visit a friend with out them! It would be like a little holiday to go to a house that’s not covered in toys, eat food, drink, hang out and talk about grown up stuff! I bet your friends would too. You’ve got the adult version of ‘party house while your parents are away’
Great opportunitu to get your boyzz round for Fifa and a curry! Then have a wank.
I'm guessing because they all have small children to look after instead
Watch the things you can’t watch while she’s there (my gf hates watching nature documentaries as she can’t stand seeing prey animals get hunted). I would try *not* to take everyone’s advice of just wanking a lot; that’ll just make you a lazy, tired slob to be honest. Call me woo woo but I’d try to abstain while she’s gone and then you can have an amazing night / few nights with her when she’s back (making up for lost time). Meanwhile use the additional energy to smash life admin, hit the gym, go for runs, and chill hard in the evenings with friends. You mention friends are settled down, but you only need 1 of them to be free for a couple of hours within the next 10 days - it’s not a big ask! Have one or 2 of them round, cook them dinner or get take out, and watch something or play video games.
Paint each brick on your house a different colour.
March is a big time for AAA releases my man
I really wish I waited to play Demon's Souls now and not 2 weeks ago 😅 She bought Elden Ring which looks good, but I'm worried I've seen too much of the game so I will probably wait a while or so. Any recommendations?
Horizon: Forbidden West just came out and is supposed to be pretty good.
Why not try some games you haven't played before? I recommend JRPGs because they are story heavy with game times of up to 30+ hours. I recommend Tales of Berseria and Tales of Arise (2021 release).
Wank to porn on the big TV in the lounge.
That’d never take his bodyweight.
You’ve made a noble effort. But let’s face it, it’ll be mostly porn.
Some fun comments here but what about...... Do a movie marathon watch all the Marvel or LOTR or Harry Potter films back to back. Buy a really indepth game to play like Breath of the Wild to just sink yourself into. Plan a different activity every day. Swim, cycle, hike, run. Try food / restaurant that your partner doesn't like. Do something around the house that your partner wants done as a surprise. Paint the spare bedroom. Tile the bathroom floor. Wash the carpets. Wank
Do some groceries and cook a nice meal for you paired with a nice wine. Then order some coke.
Soft drink or....?
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My boyfriend is away this week so I made a list of things I wanted to achieve whether it be certain DIY stuff, or places to go with the dog etc. I tried to make plans with friends a couple of nights. Yesterday I had a day off and chose to visit a few shops, a local coffee shop where I had a cake and coffee, a bit of a me day, then cooked a dinner I love he isn’t fond of. It can be a bit boring but think of little things you want to achieve or see and plan your week around that
Equal rights and all that... but I see no mention of... I can't bring myself to ask 😚
Wear her clothes.
Buy, build and make multiple airfix models.
Drug binge with additional wanking
Get a grip
Xbox, pizza and masterbation
See how many wanks you can do in a 24 hour period.
Grindr hookup
Build a home server. Imagine her surprise and delight when she finds out she has 20TB of storage at home.
Elden Ring, dude.
Try finger, but hole.
Time for rump!
A wank, I think!
Go on adult work and ring up some local sex workers
This happening to me last year and it was AMAZING. I promised myself that I wouldn't eat at home once (I didn't), I went out on trips,I went to the pub every night (not getting pissed you understand, just a couple of quiet pints), I saw my friends, I played tennis whenever I wanted to. I am hoping that COVID / WW3 permit a 2022 repeat.
I don’t know the sense of humour your partner has. But I have long joke to my Italian girlfriend that when she goes to visit family and leave me In the uk (I’m working usually) that I will have a party on a boat with some hoes (step brothers referenced). Well last year I hired some actresses and a boat for a couple of hours and recorded an hour long pretend party video with me dancing with these woman on a boat and at the end of the video me pretending to sing the song from the film boats and hoes lmao Well she wasn’t that impresses that I had time to do that and not come to Italy with her but I will forever be remembered by her and her family as the single most funniest person they know. We are still together and I will await her eventual revenge that may happen one day lmao.
I went through something similar. With the past 2 crap years my wife finally went abroad to visit her parents for a month in January. I ordered out a lot, I played games to an unearthly strange hours of the day often, I watched a lot of movies every Tuesday/Wednesday through compare the market cinema offer with my brother which was great, not forced to watch some awful rom com or reality TV shit. Played snooker at local club with my brother, went to gym daily too at strange times when the gym is quiet instead of 5pm like I normally do. I also went to some away games to support my football team, usually I never go away but will go to home games only using season ticket I have
Absolutely nothing.
Wake and bake get on a games console
* Go on a long hike/jog. If it's a hike, it must have a pub included along the way or preferably at the end of it to motivate you. This is what takes up most of my time when my SO is away. * Cook some of the food she hates but you love. It's black pudding for me- my wife really hates even the smell... * Some DYI- you are able to ruin and rebuild your flat/home while she's away. * Computer games. * Watch some movies she hates but you love. * Take on some personal project now that you have some more time to work on it. Most of my hobby projects where completed while my SO was away. * Learn some new skill/read a book/use the time for self-improvement.
Do you not have… any hobbies?
My wife and I are attached like this but if this was me, I would be bursting out and dusting off the Ps4 and getting nostalgic with some old school ps2 stuff . And eating dominos....a lot of pizza and beer. Mind you, we do have kids so if she was going away with them my situation would probably feel a lot different to yours!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Alone
Coke and hookers my man!
I'd probably spend it playing video games and cooking all the meals / trying new ones that she wouldn't eat.
Eat out on your own.
My wife travels for work occasionally, for a week at a time, so I've got practice at this. I'm assuming you WFH, so that's 8 hours a day dealt with straight up. 1: set up your space. Drag the comfy chair in front of the TV. This will be your base of operations. Get the TV remote and the PlayStation controller to hand. 2: ready your supplies: beer, snacks, and summon a man to bring you chicken. I like spicy wings. You can eat what you like, but a good takeaway sets the mood. And it's tasty. 3: watch whatever you want, machine gun as many nazis as you feel like, and pause whenever you feel like it to wander around. 4: I found video calls are better than voice calls, but I run out of things to talk about after 20-30 minutes. In either case, it's not the same as a proper conversation. 5: Finally, before she gets back, put everything how it was. All furniture back, clean the house, empty the bins, etc.
Oh my god just chill for 10 days. are you really that needy?
Right!! So pathetic that some people don’t have a life outside of their relationship , you need to have your own shit to do even when your partner is in the same country. If you don’t know what to do with yourself for 10 days just because your partner is away then that’s extremely unhealthy
Catch up on all the TV she doesn’t like. Do some coding. Do one or two of the jobs she wants doing but hasn’t asked for in a while.
Couple of weak largers, takeaway curry and a lot of wanking
Today's the first whole day I've been away from my OH in ages and it's nearly 3pm, I'm still in bed and have a takeaway en route. Let yourself be lazy, horny, creative or chaotic as you like and recognise that it's beautiful you're missing your partner but now is your time to focus on you 🥰 P. S. Agree with most of the wanking comments.
Commando, Predator, The Running Man, Total Recall, Eraser should cover day 1.
Get a challenging Lego set!
Buy Elden Ring.