Are there any other hermits out there? - Page 3

Emilie · 02-10-2007, 12:15 PM

I'm so glad I'm not alone!

I am a stay at home mom, so it would seem like I'd love to get out of the house as often as possible. It is the opposite! When my husband is taking my son for the day he always offers to stay home so I can go out, but I'd rather that they left and I got the house to myself. I LOVE being home. I've also worried about my son being anti-social but when we do go out for playdates and such he's great with other kids. I'm glad he's able to entertain himself at home.

I think Dorothy and her fantastic red shoes were dead - on!

Klippy · 02-10-2007, 01:10 PM

I can be a hermit and other times I want to go, go, go. I have found that if my house is clean I really love just staying home but if it is a mess I want to get out of the mess. I work everyday so I do enjoy coming home in the afternoons and just staying home for the night. For me, that has come with age. Really the older I get the more I like to be at home. And things are just so different than they were 10 years ago. I have the world wide web to surf (which sometimes I do too much, might be part of the reason my house is a mess sometimes). I am also busy with all of the activities my girls are in. We are finishing up cheerleading (dd #1) and basketball (dd #2) and move directly to track. In the winter I really do not like to get out much. But today I am itching to go to Sams - I have some extra money and I would like to look around for somethings for my freezer. One thing I do keep in mind is I do not have alot of extra money and I want to go on a vacation to the beach this year, so if I stay home I don't spend money. I like to think that I am a settled and satisfied person is why I enjoy staying at home. Someone mentioned that their feelings were hurt by someone saying they were a homebody, heck, take that as a compliment. You are content with yourself and don't need to be running around trying to find what you are missing.

Bonniebelle38 · 02-10-2007, 01:44 PM

I'm a bit of a hermit too, I like staying home and doing my own thing. My ds is in pre-k 2 days a week so I run most of my errands then. I have some friends that ask me & dh to out out to bars, but we usually turn them down, I think our "bar hopping" days are over, for now. Plus, I live in a rural area, so to go anywhere its at least 15 min. & I hate to drive!! I'm OK with being a homebody though!!

diamondgrl1177 · 02-10-2007, 05:13 PM

I love just being home. I've always been that way. In high school everyone was going out I just like to be home. Now it's even more. I have a few aquaintances, or mom's of the friends of the kids, but I like to keep to myself. I work at home, exercise and just hang out. I do like to have people over, but not a HUGE crowd. Maybe another couple or something. I don't really like to have other mom's over because alot of them seem to want to judge your house or what your house looks like. I'm getting pasted that stage in life. Take me as I am. I do have one good friend that I met through classes with the kids, and we jsut hang out. It's a great relationship. But sometimes I jsut want my alone time. This time of year I want to stay home and just be by myself with the kids. My mom was this way too. But I don't talk to too many people. My mom everyday and DH. My mom is just more or less to say this is what were are doing and stuff. But when the kids are in school in another 2 years, I'll be a major hermit, because I have soooooooooooo many projects, scrapbooking, organizing, CLEANING

During the summer it's different, I love being outside, but still like being home.

southern_belle_mommie · 02-10-2007, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by kwilbanks

Oh thank goodness !! I thought I was the only one

Im at the point that I hate going anywhere . I get teased by friends all the time. But most of the ppl I know just want to go to a bar and get wasted anyway, I have outgrown that Im not much for partying anymore those days was left in my younger days.Im much happier staying in and reading a good book or just kicking back relaxing. Dh however says he thinks i was born with a phone attached to my ear since Im always on it

I do feel gulilty sometimes but most of the time Im to tired to care

And he knows I'm attatched to the other end....LMBO!

I don't like taking the kdis out no more than I have to. Every now and then is ok, but fir the most part we are ALWAYS at home.

newlywed0610 · 02-10-2007, 06:28 PM

I don't know if I'd use the term hermit, but I do like being at home. Dh does, too. We do like going out once in a while, but we haven't done that in quite some time. Oh, we did go to a Super Bowl party that was a lot of fun, but we're just not the kind of people who need to go out every weekend, even if we could afford it.

TracyB · 02-10-2007, 10:12 PM

I am a homebody also....the only time I usually do anything is Saturdays.....or if I have to do something up at dds school...other then that I dont leave my holler...lol....hubby will take the girls to his moms and I will stay right here....not that I don't love them...I have made that time my peace and quiet time...lol

Jeweled · 02-10-2007, 11:21 PM

I didn't used to be this way, but since my son (he's 16 months old) was born I'd rather stay home. It's just easier that way. I don't have to worry about taking snacks or what he's going to eat if we're going for dinner. I don't have to worry if we're visiting a house that's not child-proofed. And I don't have to spend all that time setting out everything for a loving but insecure daddy if I'm going away by myself.

RobertPost'schild · 02-11-2007, 07:54 AM

Yikes no! My dh is like that, just loves staying home and it would not bother him not to leave the house for a few weeks.

I would go crazy! Even on the days it was 0 degrees and ds had no school, I had to get out in the evenings when dh got home and ds was in bed.

I have slight clausterphobia and I'm wondering if this is part of it too. I get out each and every day at least once, it's better if it's twice, unless I am desperately sick or ds is sick. But if he is sick I'll get out in the evenings. Dh just tells me 'just get out'. He knows what I'm like when I don't.

lamby248 · 02-11-2007, 08:08 AM

I am a homebody, I could stay at home for quite a while and not talk to anyone or see anyone or go anywhere.

But I do like to go out with friends or go to friends houses. I don't mind close friends coming over to my house, because I like to cook for people, but don't too often because my house is usually not put together nicely.