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Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 16:59

So I was away for 2 nights with boyfriend of about 6 months. I paid for hotel as it was his birthday and it was my present. The first night was good - we stayed up til about 11 with drinks . The 2nd night I had planned to go for dinner and had booked somewhere but he didn’t seem keen on my choice and we headed back to the room around 5 and had some snacks and drinks we had with us. We chatted for a while and then he fell asleep around 7.15 . He slept until his alarm went off at 6am the next morning. I was disappointed . I didn’t disturb him as I knew he had a hard week and was tired/. But I did feel lonely and it felt like a bit of a waste of an evening together. We live 3.5 hours apart so meet once or twice a month. I had a bath and did my nails and talked to my daughter and watched a movie. I couldn’t sleep and finally slept around 4am. At 6 when his alarm went off he wanted sex and to wake up for the day - we were heading home but didn’t have to check out til 12. I managed to snooze for a while until he called me a “lazy woman” which really upset me. So I got up and dressed and tried to act normal but got away as soon as I could as I didn’t want him to see me upset. I didnt say anything as that was his birthday and I didn’t want an argument but I was really upset. It just stung. I’m home now and thinking about things and wondering am I being over sensitive. I told him later I was disappointed about him sleeping so long but he just said he had a hard week and tiredness took over. What do you think: am I just being over sensitive or old you be upset: I feel really hurt tho I can’t exactly say why. I feel I was sensitive to him being tired but he was very insensitive to me wanting me to get up and out early . Maybe we just have totally different body clocks

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AnnoyedAsAllHeck · 20/03/2026 16:19

You've read it a few dozen times but I will add my words to the mix.

You deserve better. If youare nervous to talk to him because he gets defensive it will only get worse, not better.

You deserve better. You deserve to go away for a weekend with a new boyfriend and come home with butterflies in your stomach and excitement to see him again and he should feel the same. You do not have that. At all.

You deserve better, you really, truly do.

P.S. I am also an insomniac. It's really hell at times but DH and I work around it and the word "lazy" has never left his lips, even after 48 years.

You deserve better. Please repeat that to yourself until you believe it fully and completely.

Redragtoabull · 19/03/2026 23:19

He called you lazy because he couldn't put his cock inside you? And you really need advice?
Wobble that head, put some trainers on and run for the hills

SadTimesInFife · 19/03/2026 12:19

Dump the bastard.
He is not the man for you.

As Alice DJ used to sing, 'you are better off alone'.
Xx

DaisyChain505 · 19/03/2026 11:36

People can’t help if they’ve had a hard week or are just plain tired.

Im guilty of having early nights when on holiday or away at a hotel.

You already had one late night out celebrating so spending the other having a quieter one seems perfectly reasonable.

With regards to the lazy woman comment, was it a cheeky “Get up you lazy woman.” In a loving jokey manner or actually serious?

It sounds like you’re being overly sensitive.

Givingmytwocents · 19/03/2026 11:18

If you're not great at explaining yourself in a face to face conversation, put it in a text. I find this explains everything clearly and he can read it and accept how you felt or try to diminish your feelings - if he does that, he clearly does not respect you.

beautifuldaytosavelives · 18/03/2026 23:44

I think it’s outrageous, ungrateful behaviour and I’d be giving him his marching orders. He sounds like a petulant child who wasn’t getting his own way, and made sure to spoil it for everyone. Run for the hills; this will be one of many versions of the same story.

MaddestGranny · 18/03/2026 20:09

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 18:05

Just from his point of view
I think he didn’t want me to pay for a dinner - I think he was short of cash to pay himself or he would have to be fair he is generous but he has just bought a car and is short
He did thank me a lot and said he had a lovely time

Hum! Sounds like damage limitation to me. He realised he behaved like a total arse and is trying to save his face/retrieve the situation. Also: you think he was short of cash to pay for dinner? He's a real Prince Charming, isn't he? So, he was expecting you to foot it for the whole weekend, was he?

He's a bin-job, in my view. You deserve better.

HotBaths · 17/03/2026 22:01

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 17:49

I can’t seem to say what I feel without him getting very defensive and I end up feeling like I’m being unreasonable

So what on earth is it that is in it for you, a long-distance rel where you rarely see one another and you can’t talk frankly to him when you do?

Wildgoat · 17/03/2026 21:57

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 18:05

Just from his point of view
I think he didn’t want me to pay for a dinner - I think he was short of cash to pay himself or he would have to be fair he is generous but he has just bought a car and is short
He did thank me a lot and said he had a lovely time

Yeah so he didn’t want to pay for dinner, couldn’t afford it so ruined the night, bin him off,

Wildgoat · 17/03/2026 21:56

I can’t beleive some of these answers blaming the op. Would I fuck be ok with faking my husband away for the night and him going to sleep at 7;15 and refusing dinner and having a snack and a drink in the room then waking up, demanding sex and calling me lazy

and some posters are saying neither is more right than the other. Seriously. Raise your bar ladies.

op, he could have suggested somewhere else for dinner, did he think he may have to pay? Over all I’d bin him off, I’d not want to see him again, what a shit way to behave.

BauhausOfEliott · 17/03/2026 21:51

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 18:05

Just from his point of view
I think he didn’t want me to pay for a dinner - I think he was short of cash to pay himself or he would have to be fair he is generous but he has just bought a car and is short
He did thank me a lot and said he had a lovely time

Nope, he’s a dickhead who called you lazy because you didn’t want to fuck him at 6am.

BauhausOfEliott · 17/03/2026 21:49

PropitiousJump · 17/03/2026 18:35

It sounds like you didn't pace yourselves for the weekend. Better to have an earlier night, no drinks the first night and have your late night and drinks the second night, especially as you had a late checkout.

A normal healthy adult doesn’t need to ‘pace themselves’ to stay up past teatime and enjoy a couple of drinks two nights in a row FFS. They had two nights at a hotel, not a week in Magaluf.

BoredZelda · 17/03/2026 19:38

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 17:49

I can’t seem to say what I feel without him getting very defensive and I end up feeling like I’m being unreasonable

This is the actual problem with the relationship. A mismatch in sleep schedules can be worked round (and IME is brilliant when you have a small child!). But if you can’t talk to him about it, that’s a problem. He was entirely out of order to expect you to be up and at ‘em at 6am on a weekend away. My husband gets up this early no matter where we are, always has done. But he takes himself off out and finds somewhere to sit and have a coffee until a more reasonable hour. He has never once expected me to be up at that time with him. If you can’t speak to this guy about what he has done wrong, that’s a problem.

Aldo, nobody should be name calling in a relationship. As others have said, throw this one back.

JustGiveMeReason · 17/03/2026 18:48

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 17:49

I can’t seem to say what I feel without him getting very defensive and I end up feeling like I’m being unreasonable

So why would you want to spend any more time with him ?

Putting aside how rude he was to sleep through your weekend together, that you'd arranged as a birthday treat for him, it is this ^ that should make you realise this isn't someone you want to get into a relationship with. Why would any self respecting person want to get into a relationship with someone they are afraid to talk to ? Confused

AlexRidersButt · 17/03/2026 18:43

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 17:49

I can’t seem to say what I feel without him getting very defensive and I end up feeling like I’m being unreasonable

Throw this one back, OP.

You are supposed to be in the early giddy exciting stage, not 'ignoring my feelings so he won't get defensive'. This one isn't for you.

NovemberMorn · 17/03/2026 18:41

PropitiousJump · 17/03/2026 18:35

It sounds like you didn't pace yourselves for the weekend. Better to have an earlier night, no drinks the first night and have your late night and drinks the second night, especially as you had a late checkout.

🙄

NovemberMorn · 17/03/2026 18:41

Bloody hell, if a young (presumably) man can't have two nights of going out to dinner, without having to go back to the room at five, and go to sleep a couple of hors later for ELEVEN HOURS... I think he needs to get a medical checkup.

SummerFrog2026 · 17/03/2026 18:40

BauhausOfEliott · 17/03/2026 17:43

People saying the OP shouldn't have 'stayed up' until 4am are missing the point that she couldn't sleep. It's not like she went out clubbing. She had insomnia.

If I was staying in a nice hotel for a couple of nights, I would be pretty pissed off if my DP refused to go out for dinner and just ate snacks in the room and then went to sleep at 7pm like a toddler. I get that he was tired but it would definitely give me (and yes, I know some people hate this term, but it's useful shorthand for exactly what I mean) 'the ick'. To me it just screams 'feeble, fragile wet blanket' and that isn't the kind of man I can find attractive.

Also, no wonder he's bloody tired if he's the sort of person who wants to get up and start the day at 6am when's got the day off work and doesn't need to check out of his hotel until midday. He could have had dinner the previous night and stayed up until a more grown-up hour and caught up on his sleep in the morning. It's a waste of the hotel room to go to sleep at 7pm and then want to be up and out at the crack of dawn.

Also, he was a complete cunt to call the OP 'lazy' when he couldn't be arsed to go out to dinner and he was asleep at 7pm in a hotel room she had paid for.

All of this!

@Ceci693 he's an infuriating, rude, cockwomble you deserve & can find MUCH better!

PropitiousJump · 17/03/2026 18:35

It sounds like you didn't pace yourselves for the weekend. Better to have an earlier night, no drinks the first night and have your late night and drinks the second night, especially as you had a late checkout.

user1464187087 · 17/03/2026 18:32

honeylulu · 17/03/2026 18:02

I would get rid of him too.
The defensive behaviour would be the final nail in the coffin. Basically he can insult you to your face and call you lazy for not doing what he wants when he wants. But you are walking on eggshells not daring to say anything to him at all about how you feel.

But there was already a long list of things that would have pissed me off.
Totally unappreciative of a lovely and no doubt not cheap birthday trip.
Rudely rejected a dinner reservation you had thoughtfully made.
Went to sleep at 7.15pm like a fucking toddler. Tired after a week at work, oh please.
Left his alarm set for 6am with no consideration for you.
Pestered you for sex when you needed to sleep (ok for him to sleep when he wants to but you are "lazy").
Was champing to get up and go home at 6am!!! Why? Surely part of the treat is a leisurely hotel breakfast.

I've never met him and he's annoyed me anyway.

I thought exactly the same, but you have worded it better than me.

Livingthebestlife · 17/03/2026 18:31

What an absolute waste of money. Then eating snacks in the room 😳😲 that's something you do when you've kids and they are getting ready for bed. I'd have to ask him if he normally goes to bed at a child's time because that would answer the question if you're compatible. If it was a one off and he'd worked with very little rest then see if they do the same again. Away at a nice hotel should be making the most of every minute especially in the early days.

Didimum · 17/03/2026 18:31

IWaffleAlot · 17/03/2026 18:22

Oh look at your energy bunny. Gosh some days I’m absolutely shattered and asleep before 8! In fact dh and I did this while away too.

How is op being unable to sleep his problem? So he’s exhausted after a hard week and a previous late night, and falls asleep early and he’s terrible yet op who stays up till 4 gets sympathy? Both had a reason for their sleep situation equally

I’ve got twins, work full time and have a 3hr work commute. I get deeply crash-tired as much as anyone.

Where did I say OP’s sleep problems were his fault? It’s a special occasion and she’s made a big effort. He can perk himself up for one more night.

TorroFerney · 17/03/2026 18:31

Ceci693 · 17/03/2026 17:49

I can’t seem to say what I feel without him getting very defensive and I end up feeling like I’m being unreasonable

Well you would, that is why he is doing it, he wants you to feel like shit. I get up at 5:45 am every morning and am in my 50's. I still manage to stay up at night, I am not missing dinner to go to bed.

ThatFairy · 17/03/2026 18:25

IWaffleAlot · 17/03/2026 18:22

Oh look at your energy bunny. Gosh some days I’m absolutely shattered and asleep before 8! In fact dh and I did this while away too.

How is op being unable to sleep his problem? So he’s exhausted after a hard week and a previous late night, and falls asleep early and he’s terrible yet op who stays up till 4 gets sympathy? Both had a reason for their sleep situation equally

Yeah I don't really think this is a bit deal they were just sleeping totally opposite to each other. He shouldn't have called her lazy, though I suppose it's the tone he will have said it in which only OP knows

IWaffleAlot · 17/03/2026 18:22

Didimum · 17/03/2026 17:36

Poor effort on his part. Everyone gets tired sometimes. Most people work hard. Suck it up when someone has put in a lot of time, effort and money on you.

Oh look at your energy bunny. Gosh some days I’m absolutely shattered and asleep before 8! In fact dh and I did this while away too.

How is op being unable to sleep his problem? So he’s exhausted after a hard week and a previous late night, and falls asleep early and he’s terrible yet op who stays up till 4 gets sympathy? Both had a reason for their sleep situation equally