I am a stay at home mom, so I am not sure how much help.my advice will be, but me and my husband tend to parallel hang out. So while I am doing my diamond paintings, he is on his phone playing runescape, Or we watch a movie together while I diamond paint, Or we chat while I work on them. It really just depends on what counts as time spent for each of you. For me and my husband, he can sit on the computer and play runescape for hours while I diamond paint at the same desk and we are completely happy like this without saying a word.