How many hours do you spend with your SO weekly? Rant?

[Hololz]

It really used to depend on our schedules. He's a trainee nurse and on the days when he wasnt at hospital we could spend upto 3 or 4 hours talking (although mainly it was an hour or two) almost everyday of the week. Then other times we only spoke for a couple of hours a week becuase he had crazy shift patterns, but it was never too much of an issue for me because its not like he could do anything to change it!

[Belle]

We talk maybe an hr or so a week over the phone. We don't really video chat either and just watch stuff simultaneously while chatting. That is about 8 hours a week maybe...? We text each other pretty much all day even on work or school breaks.

[jleec24]

My SO and I too are very fortunate and very spoiled for the reason that I have constant free time. We have a 6 hour time difference so by the time I get through hanging out with my friends and such, she will have only just finished school. This could be me hanging out with my friends from about 12pm - 10pm during my time and she still will have only just gotten home from school. Also I have really bad insomnia and I refuse to take sleeping pills for it because I'm the kind of person who doesn't want to be dependent on self-medication but with that being said, I cannot sleep until around 5-6 am in the morning. Therefore as my girlfriend gets home from school we usually Skype through the night for hours. We take time off to talk, we show each other links, we watch our series' together (The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, Glee, etc) but then other times we usually just do our own things. She also has been finding that she has been needing quite a lot of help from me with her schoolwork because she usually has to do work for more than one person so it helps when we keep each other on Skype just in case she needs my help.

If she has an event or a party, she usually Skypes with me beforehand because she has free-time because of her early school schedule and when her friends come over for pre-drinking she still keeps Skype on because I am football friends with one of her mates and we usually take that time to banter or to catch up on how things have been and etc. Then when she leaves we stop Skyping and continue the next day after she's slept in. But come December time we're both going to be pretty busy as we are both vacationing somewhere else but I know we're still going to take the time to Skype or sleep on Skype every now and then because it's something we both really enjoy and find comfort in.

But otherwise on regular days we are both very fortunate with the time we have with each other and it's one of those moments where I feel very lucky to have the sort of skill set that I have because we haven't got to stop communicating when she has homework, instead we start communicating more because she normally needs help.

[corrda00]

For me its usually a hour phone call a week and a bit of texting every once and a while.
We're both really busy people Thats what music progams do to ya.

[D.4C]

we used to skype fairly often...but her computer shuts down when we are...overheats...and we don't talk on the phone alot...although i really need to since it's been a while...maybe tonite...lol...but we text alot....all day long...i even stay up late into the night...or early into the morning....depending on how you look at it...because i can't get enough...and she is 2 hours behind me...so it is earlier for her...but i don't care...i can always make up the sleep...but soon...i won't be needing to do that...cuz she will be here...i'll prolly still text her alot while i am at work though....lol

[Chris516]

It depends on her schedule.

[NikkiDeAnn75]

We've been very fortunate and like some others on here, very spoiled. I get to talk to my SO every night unless one of us has an event to attend. We spend anywhere from 1-5 hours on the phone every night (every once in a while we'll talk for eight or nine hours) and sometimes talk several times throughout the day. We also keep up running texts depending on how busy we get at work. I hate the days I don't get to talk to him. Sometimes we talk about what has happened during the day, sometimes he watches a show that is interesting and tells me about it, or we read together. This is the one aspect of LDR that I do like. We communicate and have learned to talk to one another. This is something lacking in my previous relationships, so I am very appreciative of this chance to really get to know him.

[azarashi]

About 12-15 hours a week on Skype

[ioanna]

about two hours a month ... things have gotten a lot tougher these past few months due to our schedules and workloads.. looking at the bright side, 97 days until i see him again!

[hans]

We chat on msn about 1.5 hours each day. Works although we have 9 hours time zones between us. Usually in my evening and around luch for her. Sometimes (weekends mostly) in my morning and her evening

[snow]

We both are used to spending a lot of time at the computer, so it's not like we have to plan our time on the computer. In a regular week, where he is working and I'm going to college and work we talk between 7 and 8 hours on TeamSpeak (voice chat) a day (except thursday where he spends some time with his friends and we play a round of L4D afterwards) and when we feel like seeing each other or we're missing each other's face we jump on skype, but we're not doing it regularly.
Last week has been pretty stressful with the holidays so we only had about an hour a day on skype (sometimes just 15 minutes), a couple minutes where I called him and a couple short conversations on the facebook chat.

What I learned that week was: if you want to spend time with your SO make a respectful request, don't get upset at them even when you feel neglected, be respectful to their feelings and needs and they will do the same - chances are they are not doing it on purpose.
Tell her you miss her and that you'd like to spend some alone time just with her and I'm sure she'll try to make some time.

[charly]

We have some sort of contact almost everyday. But with our schedules now we skype for 2 hours every 3 or 4 days...Too little for me, but it's just a busy time of the year now. We both basically drown in our school work, but in 19 days the Christmas holiday starts at least

[efish1042]

We used to text now and then throughout the day and call every few days. We rarely skyped... mostly because my dad doesn't like him and so he took away my webcam and I didn't have the money to buy another.

[Anyaheirkoya]

Oh, man. I feel disgustingly spoiled...

His work and school schedule is crazy, so every day is different, but usually we'll have 1-2 hours or less in the morning, while we wake up, and he gets ready to go to school. Then depending on the day, we'll either spend the afternoon together, or we won't see each other till 10-11 that night. The internet at his work (works in a crappy motel!) stinks big time, so sometimes we'll skype, sometimes not. Thankfully his bosses don't care whatever he does, lol, as long as his work gets done. I just have to be patient whenever he has a customer. On nights where he works all night, I'll say goodnight to him and go to bed, and then he'll call me at around 6 the next morning and we sleep together till 9 or so. Every night he's home, though, we sleep together. Sometimes we wake up together, and sometimes he gets ready and wakes me up when he's about to leave for school. Then we'll text each other, or message each other during the day. Ever since we started dating, we haven't had a day where we didn't at least hear from the other. We would be absolutely freaking out if a day passed without the other checking in. (When we have internet problems, we PANIC! Ohmygoodness.) The nice thing about sleeping together every night, is that even if we can't make time during the day, we at least have bedtime and pillow talk to look forward to. Which is a really nice way to end the day. Neither of us like talking on the phone, though he calls me on his way home from work most days. 90% of our communication is Skype. I prefer IM'ing (I don't like to speak aloud so much...) but he really does not like IM'ing (but he does it sometimes, just for me!) so Skype is our middle ground. lol. So...probably 70 hours a week of Skype? But we're asleep for most of it, haha. We don't talk constantly, most of the time we just do our own thing. The others presence is comforting. ^-^

[blueeyes79]

Me and my SO we skype with the cam everynight...We even sleep with the cams on. We text during the day when we arent busy at work...Also talk on FB before we skype and voice chat on skype...So I guess you can say we spend everyday all day and night with each other.