Anyone else hate weekends?

I think this is the craziest OP I've ever read, which is no mean feat

Do you work?
We both work full time, and the working week is a juggle with breakfast clubs/school/ after school clubs, alongside all our work commitments. By Friday I’m exhausted!

I love the weekends, whether busy and packed with plans, or less so. Although our kids do sports clubs on the weekends, and we usually have plans on top, or mountains of life admin.

Basically we are so busy, the weekends give a tiny bit of relief, and I dream of one day being bored!!

I would love to be left alone to do a jigsaw at a weekend. No such luck at the moment...

I hate them at the moment because it’s great swathes of time trying to avoid being treated like dirt by my STBXP or being reminded that all my friends have nice happy relationships and are unavailable to socialise.
my children hate me and pick up on the fact I’m depressed and that causes a strain.

I prefer weekdays when work takes up my mind

I thought it was just me that wasn't keen on weekends. I like the structure of the week days. I do feel a bit better about them if I plan something and get out of the house. I feel rubbish if I lie in and shower later.

I partly agree with you OP in that I love Friday night and Saturday but absolutely hate Sundays. Even when we’re away somewhere lovely I don’t like Sundays. I suspect it goes back to Sunday often being a miserable day for me when I was a child and I find it hard to lose that feeling.

Are you sure? Because obviously during the week you also have stuff planned (work, etc) and somewhere to be (work, dropping kids off) so why do you have a problem with it on weekends but not during the week? I think having more structure to your weekend will make you more busy.

I hate them - too many things to get done. Children’s activities, meals to cook, dogs still need to be walked, house is a tip.

Yabu. I'm up and out early each weekday, schedule a swim for 9 or 10am on a Saturday, then get all my errands done and then refuse to leave the house on Sundays. I love weekends ♥

I like weekends more now the kids are older. I get up when I want, laze around for a bit and go for walks, not much else. I generally catch up on much needed rest

I go to the library any Saturday we don’t have other plans. Arrange to have an hour long walk to a cafe with a friend (cost: a cup of tea each). Go swimming out to a yoga class. Read, knit, do a sewing project. Play piano.

Then I also batch cook, or take DS to scouts things. Plenty to do without it being a big trip!

I’m so sorry 😞… They are such beautifully natured dogs

Plan things to do with your weekends? It's not mandatory to sit around watching Netflix!

See friends
Do cleaning and organising bits you didn't have time for in the week - ie cleaning out the closet and putting stuff on Vinted
Big shop for the week
Run errands
Invite friends or family for dinner
Kids' playdates and birthday parties
Experiment with time-consuming recipes
Go to the library, museum, park etc
Get a babysitter and go out for an evening
Volunteer

...I never have a chilled weekend

I love them! I love the fact it's my days off - even though I only work very part time I feel I can leave the adulting part of life (bills etc) til Monday. I don't care if I have anything planned or not - in fact nothing planned is ideal. Yesterday, for example, I walked the dogs, my DD asked for a lift to pick up her glasses, we ended up trying a new place for lunch then home to potter around til supper then a movie. Bliss!

I find Sundays depressing

I've spent the last 2.5 years worth of weekends writing a book. I have a routine. Run or practice sport at home. Write. Cook nice food. Throw in days out etc occasionally.

You have a life of weekends to fill. Make use of them as you see fit or waste your life dreading them. The choice is yours.

Coffee with friends
Drive to somewhere new and spend the day exploring
Drive to the coast
Make it your mission to try every cafe/bakery/whatever shop in your area over the next few months
Borrow a dog and go for a walk
Have a friend(s) over for dinner or drinks or takeaway and split the bill

I love the weekends.

I work full time as a teacher and very often feel kind of people-ed out by Friday and want some peace and quiet.

DDs are now 18 and 19 and I'm quite excited about having more time to myself at weekends!

I do a lot of batch cooking at the weekend, experimentation in the kitchen etc.

Not your cup of tea perhaps if you've been cooking for kids all week though I think

I like having the time and space to get things organised and done, just cant do it in the week, even emailing tradesmen or ordering a repeat prescription or picking up a prescription, buying things we need etc

Not the most exciting things of course but I still live for the downtime away from work.

It totally depends what age your kids are. If they’re babies and/or toddlers, then the working week is easier than the weekend for most parents at this stage. If they’re old enough to do their own thing, weekends are your own to enjoy how you please.

God I live for the weekends.

I like to have at least one social thing planned for the weekend (and that for me includes Friday as I don't work on Fridays). I mostly wfh and my OH works in the office all week so he and the teens are usually happy chilling whereas I am climbing the walls if I have to stay in all weekend. If it's a weekend with no social plans then I'm happy to take myself off to a museum, exhibition or shops in London or even a long walk along the river. I probably need a dog I think for some company😂

Yep, find weekends very stressful for the same reasons. I wfh so want to get out but do have chores while DH and children are the opposite - out at school and work all week so just want to chill. Or watch sport.

"Quiet" weekends just mean me cooking and cleaning up all weekend while going out of my mind with cabin fever. If we do something, I have to plan, manage, organise and motivate and it becomes exhausting. And then feel guilty because the chores aren't done.

Then, the working week starts again and you realise you wasted another weekend, while everyone else ever had a wonderful and fascinating time.

I know what you mean...
I tend to sink into my own head on the weekends. We're saving hard to buy a house at the moment. Literally all our money is going towards that, so there's nothing for little extras at the moment.

So we just sit around all weekend. The kids are fine. They have clubs and things during the week, but nothing at the weekend. They're content playing in their rooms, or in the garden.

I just find that I don't have enough to do. I'll try and watch a film, or read my book, but I just can't settle to anything.

I much prefer the week days. I'm really busy. My work (which I enjoy) takes me to a different place almost every day, and I love the variety. I love being busy and purposeful, and I'm never bored.