Any other introverts 'peopled out?'

[TitsalinaBumSquash]

I have sat down this morning and cried. I want some time alone!
I want to tiny and clean my house,
I want to sleep uninterrupted in the quiet (we have no bedroom, DH snores and DD wakes up at dawns crack to come down to the living room where we sleep!)
I want the dog to fuck off and stop whining to come in then promptly go back out!
I want to just no have to see/speak/be near anyone. Even my husband and kids who I love very much. I am DONE with other living things being around me and I want to crawl into a space of nothingness for a while. 😢

I saw I am going to work and don't go.
I often spend the day in an art gallery or just pottering about.

Say not saw - damn gin fingers

Yes. Extremely peopled out, but at in laws till Monday so will just have to grin and bear it. I can't wait to get home after collecting the cat and sit in blissful silence with a snoozing furry boy on my lap...

YES. I was just thinking that. Got back from family late last night only to be woken up by loud cartoons and rung about something at 9am and asked what are my plans for today. I have no fucking idea beyond coffee.

Yup. Only been 4 days but so happy to be heading home today. Peace perfect peace.

I don't have a quiet home to go back too, my home has 5 other people in it even though it's designed for maybe 4 at the most.
I have no sacred room that I can go into by myself. DH and the kids don't go back to their normal work/school routine until the 6th Jan! I have work most days but my work is caring so just more people.
I can't even lock myself in the bath without hearing the kids galloping around/wrestling or being generally loud.

Fuck yes. Considering booking a week's holiday somewhere (anywhere) to have some time alone. Really not good at dealing with people for days on end.

I'm trying to remind myself that this is post Christmas blues, it happens every year and doing something rash isn't going to be helpful.

Extremely.

I tried to get a damn shower in silence at my IL's yesterday and stupid thing wouldn't get hot and I gave up. Spent 2 days there.

Today is going to very quiet. Normal routine. Nap time for 1yr old and letting 5yr play games just for some quiet.

Sending them out with my husband tomorrow for a walk so I can take decorations down in peace. With nobody asking me to do anything for anyone or talk absolutely boring repetitive content less stuff.

Could you grab half an hour and go and sit in a Church ?

I mean in various grown-ups talking about driving routes and traffic. My children are not boring me with that lol

Aftter a while I need to retreat from people. We were at my parents from xmas eve until yesterday and had s lovely time but when i got home yesterday i was thrilled to be back in my own little space with the dcs. I went to bed before all the other adults whilst at my parents as i needed peace and quiet.

totally

will drive home in a few minutes and am ridiculously excited about coming home to a quiet house with my lovely housemates (dh+dc) who are equally looking forward to doing their own thing.

I got home yesterday after staying with family for 3 nights. Christmas was lovely but I was definitely peopled out by that point & the peace in my flat has been heaven.

The idea of other people living in the same place as you though - all the time - I’d really struggle with that.

sorry, misread your post horribly

it sounds really tough not to have your own escape space. I grew up without my own bed and it's very unsettling. as result I'm very protective about my bed.

no chance to add a shed in the garden just for you?

No garden unfortunately, I was coping just about but our disabled DS was unable to have treatment at home so the council cut our living/room in half to make a medical room so now our living room/bedroom is so small our 'bed' is the main family sofa and the kids are sitting on the floor squished down next to eat to eat their meals. It's awful tbh.

The lifetime disability team are working in alternative solutions (hopefully will result in being rehoused to a suitable accommodation) but until then it gets a bit much. It will settle down again when school/work resume properly. We're too skint to afford to take the kids out for more than a walk which since insta been pouring with rain for what seems like ever now it's not appealing. I shall take some deep breaths and cope.

Oh very much so
We didn't even do much or see many either
But from the shopping crowds to the run around family stuff boxing day, new years in a few days we have been shutting off the world in the days between to recharge.

No escape would have me rocking in a corner, my sympathies OP
Excuse my ignorance of the weather there but if weather permits can you find a quite park or public garden to hide in for a bit?
I'm fond of cemeteries, so peaceful, no one around, so quiet. I get some would be creeped out but I find beauty in the headstones, especially the older ones and the dead don't ask for anything, whine, talk back

All the yes's.

I need alone time as readily as I need water and oxygen. The run up to and event of Christmas itself has left me entirely exhausted, mentally and physically...

Today's my first day in weeks by myself and it's so precious. So valuable.

I have found my people, we have spent the past three days visiting various family members (luckily all local so we don’t stay overnight) but I am so peopled out. Adding in that we have a 3 week old and I’m just done, have cancelled my plans for today as the baby and I just want to be at home and I’m desperate to tidy our house! DP will still take DSD out so hopefully a few quiet hours this afternoon! Christmas is exhausting.

WAAAAA dp just informed me We invited to a barbecue tomorrow

There was a thunderstorm weather report..............

I'm currently sitting in a garden centre having breakfast alone. I've told everyone I've gone to Sainsbury's.

Completely! We cancelled on my pil coming round today and turned down invitations to a family party as well as sale shopping today, just need some me time and wish people would leave me alone

Could you book yourself a night in a hotel by yourself?

We can't afford a hotel or I would jump at the chance!
It will get better, DH has dropped the older kids at the cinema (they have Cineworld passes for birthdays) and the younger 2 have gone for a walk in wellies and rain coats.

I have dashed round and tidied a bit (nothing major) now I'm just sitting watching tv and breathing. I feel so awful for DH, he doesn't get this overwhelming sense of drowning when there's lots of social things going on, he tries but struggles to realise that him and the kids count as 'people' despite the fact that I love them to death.

I always find any huge change in routine hard, I have ASD so come the 28th I'm clinging onto my sanity like crazy.
When I go to work I usually leave early and sit in the car for an hour in a side road and just sit in silence and I bloody love it.

Not to the point of feeling panicky or anything, but I was glad to see the back of my brother and his wife yesterday, though they were only here for 3 days. It's a shame because we used to be really close, and I would dread him leaving. Now he's married though they're 'guests' and there's more formal 'hosting' to be done - sitting around making chit-chat is so exhausting for me! In the old days I could disappear with my laptop when I needed a break but now it's seen as rude.