I absolutely despise the mornings and getting up.

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I’m 50 and I have never been a morning person but the older I am getting the more I am struggling with my morning routine.

DH alarm goes off at 5.30am which (even though he is quiet) disturbs me and I can’t fully return back to sleep. DS then gets up half hour later and is the noisiest person in the morning so after that I’m just snoozing on and off until I get up at 6.45. I then wake dd up (she hates mornings like her mother!). I will feel like a zombie for hours.

I long for the day when I can retire and slowly rise at my optimal time which is around 8-8.30am. Until that day, I will continue to hate every weekday morning!

All my friends are morning people and have no issue.

Anyone else like me, who loves their bed and lie-ins?

I hear you. Currently trying to get DD up for school (she leaves it until the last possible moment). She’s not a morning person either. I can barely function before about 10am 😂 Thankfully I have a job with a lot of autonomy over my hours so I start late and work late - I’d hate to have to get up early!

Me!
I've never been a morning person, ever.
I'm a night owl, I don't bother going to bed until a little before midnight most nights, sometimes later as I just don't get to sleep if I go earlier. My natural wake time left to my own devices would be around 9, sometimes later.
I'm a shift worker anyway, and choose mostly late or night shifts as getting up at 0430-0500 destroys my soul!
The sticking point is when I'm not on shift, I do the morning get ups for school, which can be hard going.

What time do you go to bed?

Well I would consider myself a morning person but then, I don’t have mine or someone else’s alarm going off at 5.30 very often, so that might explain it!

what time do you go to bed?

I'm the same! I'm nearly 50 too. I've never liked mornings. I don't want to lounge in bed all day but waking around 8-8.30am suits me much better than 6.45 which is when I have to wake up.
My ideal would be bed around 12, wake at 8, up at 9 but life isn't working that way for now.
The winter makes it so much worse.
I was a SAHM when my children were Primary school age. We live very near the school which didn't start til 9.15. I dont think i appreciated it at the time but it sounds like bliss now.
My DH is the opposite. He likes getting up at 6. He feels much more productive then.

Same. I’m like @JaneIves, almost never in bed before midnight (unless I’m ill) and even then, it usually takes me at least half an hour to actually get to sleep. I get up just after half 7 to get the kids to school but on those incredibly rare days where my husband is away and the kids aren’t home i could easily sleep until at least 10.30am.

Sunday is the only day where I don’t have to be up for anything and I like to get up, at half 8 if I’m lucky and have a cup of tea, some breakfast and just sit in my pyjamas doing nothing for a few hours before moving. Unfortunately my aunt has a habit of dropping in for a visit while she’s out walking the dog and she’s always surprised that I’m not ‘up and dressed’ yet because I’m wasting the day apparently.

5.30am is very early so I’m not sure being a morning person would make any difference anyway. It’s definitely annoying when you’re awake for other people when you could be asleep.

I don’t know the solution though, if people have work and school. It’s just family life isn’t it.

I'm the same, unfortunately feel awful if I don't get enough sleep. Probably fall asleep around 11 on average, 8 sounds like quite a natural time for me to wake up/get up. I've always found anything other than 7 difficult, despite having a lot of disturbed nights these days.

You feel worse as you’re snoozing/dozing after your husbands alarm. Have you tried getting up when he gets up? Even if it’s just to have a coffee in bed, I think you’ll find you’ll feel much more alert throughout the day.

Yup! I used to consider myself a morning person but the older I get the further I go the other way. I'd like to chill in bed til 8.30/9 then spend a couple of hours drinking tea in my pyjamas. Then I feel ready to face the day.

Found my people! I absolutely hate getting up. I'm not too bad once I've had a couple of coffees and come round but in the week I want to cry when the alarm goes off.

I'm with you. I had to get up at six this morning for a work thing and now I feel like I've just crawled out of a mouldy grave.

Oh, I’m so glad I’ve found my morning hating people lol!

I make myself go to bed around 10pm but if I were to go with my natural cycle it would be more around midnight and awake at 8-9am as some others have mentioned, my parents have that same routine and that’s would suit me just fine.

asterel my dd is the same, leaves it to the very last minute, she’s a complete grump in the mornings.

Yes and that’s why I only work late and night shifts :)

Allmarbleslost oh, that would be my dream morning. To leisurely rise, have a drink, listen to the radio, then a long soak in the bath before starting the day, mid morning, bliss.

Can I join your club? I hate mornings and would naturally get up around 8:30am, potter for a bit and then start the day. Sadly neither school nor work see that as an option.

I dream of being one of those people who jump out of bed at 5am and do yoga / write a book / clean the house / get ahead with the dinner but it's just not me.

There was something on another thread though that there's a perception that if you go to bed early and get up early you're active and productive; but if you go to bed late and get up late you are somehow lazy!? 😂

I'm the same. I was always a morning person when I was younger but at 50 I love a lie in. I work part time now so get up about 8.30 which still feels like an effort. I'm ok once I'm up and about.

What I hate is the endless tedious routine. Shower, clean teeth, try and do something with unruly hair, put makeup on, get dressed. Id be fine if I could pass through some kind of machine and emerge through the other end fully clean and dressed.

Me too, I'm 50, always struggled with mornings. Never really wake up properly until late morning. I love getting up to let the dogs out then back to bed with a cuppa and drop back off for an hour or so.

I despise mornings. I have to start work at 8 and the only thing I’m grateful to the pandemic for is it’s enabled me to work mostly from home so I don’t have to get up in the middle of the night five days a week to get to work! On the days I am in the office, due to a public transport system that doesn’t get me to the office on time unless I get a there nearly an hour before my start time, I have to get up at 5am 😭 I’m completely useless for quite literally everything most of the day, no matter what time I’ve gone to bed the night before!
I even avoid meetings before 9am just to ensure I have caffeinated enough 🤣
I’m very jealous of my retired parents who get up about 8/8:30 and have a nice leisurely morning!

My people!!! I am a night owl. I feel dreadful in the morning and can't imagine getting through the day and then by night time I am wide awake and can stay up easily til 1am or even later.

@ChicoryDip I read that too! Rather unfair isn't it as you can be productive at any time of the day, I usually get loads done work wise between 4pm and 7pm.

Hate getting up!! I have been up since half seven because I had to be but I am not up in spirit yet.

I always say to people if and when I have to get up super early I am literally no use to man nor beast all day. It triggers something in me and I just fail to function.
One of the reasons I refuse to go on holiday with any friends or family or go on any organised excursions which include early trips.

ChicoryDip I do yoga but just can not get my head around it in the mornings, it bores me senseless (think it’s because my brain is having cosy bed withdrawal effects) yet in the evenings I love it.