Both my fiancé and I seem to need a lot of time to recover from seemingly normal life experiences. When we have a busy weekend, we feel totally wiped out on Monday. If we do too much in the week, we feel like we need a weekend to recover and spend it largely in bed, possibly wander into down for a coffee and maybe watch a series in the evening. The things we do in the week aren’t a lot either. We go to the gym 2-3 times, maybe have a friend over for a coffee when WFH, or occasionally see friends in the evening.
I struggle with sleep sometimes and after two bad nights I am spending my last day of Annual Leave watching things on my iPad and intermittently dosing. We have a busy weekend coming up (out Friday night and hosting friends Saturday) and already know Monday I am going to feel totally wiped out for work. I have booked Friday afternoon off as Annual Leave to rest in case I have a rough night sleep wise on Thursday.
Is it normal to need so much recovery time from normal life? Do other people just kind of feel a low level rough a large portion of the time? It’s both of us so I’m not sure if we enable each other or if this is something that everyone experiences? We regularly book in empty weekends now just to stop us from feeling overwhelmed and we don’t even have kids yet. I’m not sure how we would manage it at all!