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?

LoreleiG same here, been up since 6.45 and my brain is still yet to notch into gear.

Im exactly the same and the only thing that’s helped is getting a Lumie lamp - it’s honestly been a life saver.

We're fortunate in our house that we don't need to get up until 7.45 (we live a 10 minute walk from school!) and I find that manageable, though I do leave it until the last minute to get up 🤣
My older brother and his wife are constantly harping on about how they're "up for the day" at 6am! Even when they go on holiday they're up and about by 7am, breakfasted and dressed and heading out the door. What they neglect to mention is that they have a nap every afternoon for two hours!!!!!

To add, I do a lot of exercise but gym/yoga in the mornings leaves me totally drained for the rest of the day. No idea why. There has recently been some research which suggests that some people are just naturally more "morning" people whereas others are "night" people. It's apparently part of your DNA and the circadian rythm etc

I hate mornings. I wake up feeling like death and like life is awful. DD5 is full of beans when her alarm goes off at 6.30am. I asked her why she is so happy and so much energy in the mornings. She said because I go to bed at 7pm. Think she makes a good point.

I feel really sorry for you that you are forced to wake up early because of your dh's hours. I am actually a morning person, but not before 7.30am!

Same here! I absolutely hate waking up before 8am (which is basically every single day) and it doesn't matter what time I went to bed. We could be getting up early for a dream holiday and I'd rather stay in bed.

It's immediately having to throw myself out of bed, feed the cat, feed my child, sort out clothes, get make-up on, get in the car, etc and it just kills me when I've barely been able to open my eyes properly yet.

I am bemused by the people who say 8/9 am suits them better. I would define that as early still. Maybe because I have been retired a few years.
Never been a morning person even while younger. Doesn't seem to matter what time I went to bed at . So while other people have finished their day after dinner and watch TV etc at 7ish , I will be pottering around , maybe ironing, doing paperwork.

Wish I was a morning person as they seem to achieve so much more in a day .

My ideal sleeping hours would be bed from 9pm-1am, awake from 1am-4.30am, then back to sleep until 9am.

Getting up before 8am should be banned! It's obscene!

I am NOT a morning person. Even 8/8.30 is way too early for me!

1. Sleep in a separate room to your husband if you can.

1. If 1 is not possible train your husband to leave the room silently and get dressed etc elsewhere

1. Train your DS not to disturb you.

Sleep is important. People should not be disturbing other people's sleep.

I did all of the above. Was/Am rarely wakened before I wanted to get up.

I often think this! God it's so tedious. When is someone going to invent the getting ready machine!!!

Not a morning person. Love my bed and my sleep. Been up since 7 as baba is poorly 😴

That's what I do most days 😊

I am a morning person but I would not like to be woken up at 5.30am every morning. I am a very light sleeper and always awake when the first person in the house starts moving around (usually 6.30am). Even being a morning person I'm finding the dark mornings hard to get out of bed - once I'm up and had a coffee I feel more normal.

I assume you don't have a spare bed to retreat to at times to get a better night's sleep?

I’m definitely not a morning person! Go to bed around 11pm.

It’s got worse as I’ve got older, 52 now. Worse in autumn/winter too.

When dd was at school it was 6.40 start - hard particularly in winter when dark. My (late) husband wanted to get to the gym for opening time at 6am but back then my son was an early early riser so I'd often be awake anyway (he still is like his Dad now going to the gym before work). Now my dd schedule means I don't have to get up til 8! It's still hard to get her up though - she'd be sleeping til noon every day if she could!

I hate mornings and dread them as soon as I get in my bed 🤦🏻‍♀️ dd7 is the same as me and I literally have to wake her up every morning, dd9 is up before anyone else she's the total opposite.

I have two friends who choose to get up at 5.30am so they have time to drink tea, potter, exercise etc. They find that actually easier than sleeping until 6.30-7 and then rushing to get ready for work. I don't think either would say they are "morning people" - I think they'd say they're not, so this routine gives them time to wake up.

Being woken up before 6 is barbaric. Having small children makes life miserable in the mornings. I just want to wake up naturally and allow my body to adjust before being thrust into the demands for cereal, toys, tv shows, clothes etc. I would probably only sleep until 6.30/7 if allowed.

I would honestly ask DH to sleep elsewhere or change his routine if his alarm is going off at 5.30 every weekday morning. I’m a light sleeper and wouldn’t be able to get back to sleep again after that.

At first I thought that you were me, OP. I’m not a morning person at all, luckily DD and DH neither but groups/school/ colleges/ jobs are for morning people so we all were and are struggling our fair share .
I thought that when DD was small was the worst but no, it’s particularly bad now. I’m deeply in peri menopause stage and wake at night several times and then can’t go back to sleep. I’m completely exhausted.
I can’t stay in bed in the morning as I have to help DD (due to her disability)
I can’t go and have a nap later as my body just don’t work this way..
There are limits how early I can just get up and get on with things as I don’t want to wake up DH and DD early plus I’m very tired at the end of the day after.
I can’t go to bed very early most of the days as I need to help DD at bedtime again.
I started going to bed at 10pm but it ends up with me waking up at 2am and 4.30 am. I literally was lying in bed crying today because of all these.

I always tell people "time spent sleeping is never time wasted!"

I would never have described myself as a morning person but have had to start getting up at 6am as my kids have early starts for school. I have discovered I'm more of a morning person than I thought. I now go to bed way earlier than I used to. Mainly at the same time as my kids - around 9 some nights. I've also stopped drinking which means I no longer fall asleep on the sofa after a glass of wine and instead choose to go to bed. It means I'm very very boring but it also means I get lots done now in the mornings! Don't mean for that to sound smug. Don't get me wrong. I don't leap out of bed full of the joys. I need coffee to get me going. But way better than I was!

I'm not a morning person at all. DH is an early bird so he gets up around 6am and let's me lie in (in reality I'm giving DD her morning feed so awake but still lying in bed). I get up around 7am and DH does most of the kids morning stuff as I can just about focus on getting myself sorted. But I'm a night owl and work most efficiently after everyone has gone to bed, so I'm usually up past 1am doing cleaning, admin, chores, meal prep etc.

I’ve been looking into these, especially for 15 year old dd who can not get herself up for love nor money!