I've been known to leave a dinner party table and go and sit on my own in another room for 10 minutes. Just because of people overload

DP went away for a month earlier this year and I really liked it. I think if the kids were in school and not at home, I would have really, REALLY liked it. I loved being able to make all the decisions about what we were going to do that day (DP is often around during the day but not here at night so doing things during the day often revolve around his start time which is incredibly annoying).

I also took the girls away for a couple of weekends on my own. People thought I was nuts, I thought it was an adventure.

I go away on my own some weekends too (to make up for DP's crazy shifts and the fact that he often works on weekends).

I do find that on my weekends away, I miss the girls. Depends on how exhausted I am as to how soon that kicks in. Sometimes the first night, other times not till Day 3.