When I worked from home, there were stretches when I went for days without leaving the house. It was not intentional, it just worked out that way. While it was nice not to have a commute, I’m not sure I liked having cabin fever.
The other thing is that if your wife knows you are home, she will make all kinds of requests of you. It does not matter whether you are working or not. Having to refuse these actually put more stress on our marriage.
How long have you been at it? Mr. FF says the first two years were an adjustment period, where we both had to learn each other’s body language and maybe even hand signals, but we’ve been doing this remote stuff for about 20 years.
Our kids were still in grade school and high school when he first started working remotely. Now we are empty nesters. It’s been working great. Just talk with her.
Neither of you can read each other’s minds.