Anyone else find Sundays really difficult?

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I don't know what it is about Sundays, maybe it is left over exhaustion from this years home schooling, but I'm finding Sundays really difficult.

Perhaps it is being a single parent, I find it difficult to just 'be' without thinking I need to get on with chores etc.

Even though DD has finished school now, I always feel comforted by the routine of weekdays, seeing kids going to school. Post woman arriving etc.

I like Sundays, Saturday tends to be the busy day where I feel like I'm drowning in chores. However Sunday evening can still feel a bit like that build up to school/work. Making sure children havr homework done, lunches and uniforms clean and ready etc. My children are secondary age or adults now so the routine that seems to come with having primary age children has started to disappear.

I hate Sundays, feel dread from the minute I wake up, but that’s because I need to go to the hell hole that is my job tomorrow.

It was worse pre 1994 when the Sunday Trading laws came in to force.

Kids are older and do their own thing usually, they don't even emerge until late morning/lunch time. I have a lie in until about 8.30am, have a coffee, take the dog for a walk then had a leisurely brunch. I usually save the more fun tasks for Sundays like gardening, which I love, and get all the boring housework out of the way on Saturday morning instead. Then I sat down with beer and crisps and watched some football, made a leisurely dinner, and now have my feet up watching more footy. I love Sundays!

Does anyone else get the Songs of Praise feeling?

It was that time, just after tea on a Sunday, when Songs of Praise came on and you knew it was bath, bed and the weekend was over and it was school in the morning.

Thank God that's not still on (bit ironic really)
At least Sunday night TV's improved dramatically.

I absolutely love Sundays. Started when I was a student with treating myself to a warm pain au chocolat and pot of good coffee and a Sunday paper, every week. It's just my time to relax and just enjoy some small pleasures.

I can't have pastries any more, but still look forward to that coffee and a couple of hours either reading or watching Netflix/Prime.

Mind, I've never had a Mon-Fri job, so I don't normally have that looming over me, I normally have some midweek days off and then work the weekend OR I'm doing a 4-day week with either Mon or Fri off, giving a 3-day weekend.

I don't beat myself up over chores, never have.

I hate Sundays and outside always stinks of gravy. I reckon I could be kidnapped, blindfolded and drop in any other European country and I would know within ten minutes (without asking) if it was a Sunday. I didn't think anyone liked them.

I go for a long run on sunday mornings, come home watch Andrew Marr over breakfast then a long bath- best bit of the week.

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I absolutely love Sundays. Started when I was a student with treating myself to a warm pain au chocolat and pot of good coffee and a Sunday paper, every week. It's just my time to relax and just enjoy some small pleasures.

I can't have pastries any more, but still look forward to that coffee and a couple of hours either reading or watching Netflix/Prime.

Mind, I've never had a Mon-Fri job, so I don't normally have that looming over me, I normally have some midweek days off and then work the weekend OR I'm doing a 4-day week with either Mon or Fri off, giving a 3-day weekend.

I don't beat myself up over chores, never have.

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I love Sunday's. Do ironing of school shirts, get prepped for the week ahead. Relax, watch football, or a tv 3 part series for eg. What's not to like?

@Bearsbearsbears40

Yes I struggle with Sundays, I can’t relax and do nothing, and if I plan things for the whole day it feels like I am losing my relaxing day! Lockdowns have made this far worse, as though I am out of routine.

This! I feel like whatever I do on a Sunday, it's a waste of the day.

Sundays = Sing Something Simple on the radio. They could turn the most upbeat song into a depressive durge.

Yea I hate Sundays. I've always found them really depressing but cant quite put my finger on why. I dont dread work on a Monday or anything.

I feel relieved on a Monday morning. Even in jobs I have disliked.

I think ones like today are depressing - it’s so gloomy and overcast but a bit humid. A long summer Sunday evening with sunshine would be lovely right now.

@LadyJaye, I have that Sunday afternoon feeling too! I often have have the dream that I’ve not completed my teacher training final essays ( 1978) and am not a real teacher!
@suckingonchillidogs, sing something simple , that’s brought back hateful memories of Sunday night hair drying in front of the open fire and my mum yanking a hair brush through my tangles!

I stopped doing Sunday roasts when mine were teenagers as they were never all in at the same time, it was a release from a tradition that I was for some ridiculous reason, scared to stop. Probably in case my scary mother told me I was breaking some religious law.

I have a week off this week, so I don't have the usual Sunday blues - but still, Sundays just so very nondescript.

Oh my god sundays are my absolute best days!
Work tomorrow but that’s tomorrow’s worry, I’m not wasting one of my 2 glorious days off worrying about something that I can’t change.
We usually have lazy sundays, I go for a run early, come back and everyone is still in bed.
Then some food, we might go out for a walk and stop off at a pub for a refreshment break (we didn’t today as one of the ds is isolating) then we come home, dh cooks a roast and watched the football in the kitchen, everyone else scarpers to their rooms. I take this time to have a leisurely bath/nap/read/watch telly, I change my bedding on a Sunday, then eat and lie down a bit more.
A lazy day - it’s the best day for me.
My teens don’t like sundays though, it’s the association of school again on Monday. They usually don’t like them because they are reminded that they haven’t done their homework so Sunday nights for them resemble a lot of studying.

@TheChosenTwo

that's tomorrow's worry

Scarlet O'Hara taught me that too😁

I always fee oddly nostalgic on Sundays. DH works so I find it quite a long and lonely day and I long for the routine of weekdays. When I was a child Sundays were always so happy with going to visit grandparents but we don't seem to do anything like that because we live miles away. I seem to spend a lot of time staring out of the window wondering what everyone else is up to.

I find them difficult and can definitely relate to U2's song 'Sunday, bloody Sunday!'

I'm still scarred by Sing Something Simple.
Paul O'Grady is a scant improvement

There's no energy to a Sunday. They were interminabably dull days in childhood (largely pre-94) livened by such excitements such as going to the tip, walking the dog or occasionally or if we were exceptionally lucky, going to the garden centre.

My family have a far higher threshold for sitting around doing fuck-all than me and it's just bloody tedious.

Douglas Adams knew what he was on about with the Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul.

Oddly enough today is similar weather, routine etc for us ( mainly retired) as yesterday but feels completely different to me. Just something about Sundays