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AIBU?

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to have let DP oversleep and miss his football match?

66 replies

LisasCat · 08/10/2011 13:09

It is a long standing gripe of mine that DP sleeps so much at the weekend and eats into the family time he could be spending with our DDs. I appreciate that he works very hard during the week, but actually his lie ins are more down to the fact that he doesn't come to bed until 3am or 4am on Friday and Saturday evenings. Whenever we have plans as a family, or even as a couple, I have to wake him several times before he will haul his arse out of bed, rather than fall straight back to sleep.

So today his team's football match has an early kick off. I only know this because I happened to be in the room when the captain rang him the other day to confirm that they all needed to be at the club by 1pm, which would require DP to leave our house by 12.15 at the latest. It is now 1.05pm, and he is fast asleep upstairs. Any second now the captain will call to ask where the hell he is.

So WIBU not to wake him, given that he had not deliberately made me aware of the early kick off, he did not set his alarm, or do anything else to make sure he got up on time? I'm hoping that the grief he'll inevitably get off his team might finally be the kick up the backside that I have failed to get across, that he needs to take responsibility for his own time-keeping at the weekend, rather than relying on me to mother him. However, ten other men are about to be let down by his absence, for which I feel a teeny bit guilty.

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diddl · 08/10/2011 20:12

But even if he´s been up until 3/4am, to sleep until 2pm is a lot of hours!

verytellytubby · 08/10/2011 20:18

He's taking the piss. He got up at 2pm! Is this every weekend?

KeepInMind · 08/10/2011 20:37

What does he do till 3/4 am?

LindyHemming · 08/10/2011 20:45

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puddinghead · 08/10/2011 20:47

Wonder what time he goes to bed on a week night? Don't the dds come in and jump all over him by 7am? I think there's something not quite right here, is he depressed or got metabolism problems or something? No way could I stand that for long!

WhereYouLeftIt · 08/10/2011 21:12

"What does he do till 3/4 am?"
I am often up until this time - combination insomniac/nightowl. I do NOT gamble on the internet! I Mumsnet. I play freecell. I watch programmes I've recorded but not had time to watch in normal time. I read. I iron. I chill. It's a very peaceful time, I find it calming.

Of course, I'm up at 0730 Mon-Fri, regardless of whether I went to bed at 10pm or 4am.

SheCutOffTheirTails · 09/10/2011 00:06

And that's the point WhereYou - I love to stay up until that time of the night/morning too.

But when I do, I still get up the next day.

Apart from anything else, if you stay up until 3am - sleeping until 2pm is 11 hours sleep!

I mean this isn't a 4 year old child, or a 90 year old woman. This is a man in the prime of his life.

What is wrong with him that he needs so very much sleep at his family's expense?

AnyCorpseFucker · 09/10/2011 00:16

wrong with him ?

he is on a fucking good thing isn't he ?

lie ins, then football, wasting the weekend away on single man activities...does he even remember he has dc ?

a wife that demurs picking him up on it

like a pig in shit

nothing wrong there (from his viewpoint)

SheCutOffTheirTails · 09/10/2011 00:22

Well nothing wrong, presuming he has no interest in his children.

If he does love his kids, presumably he doesn't actually WANT to never see them because he is always at work or asleep or out playing footie with his mates.

Although you'd think if he has so little energy that he would not leave the home as soon as he managed to struggle out of bed on a Saturday afternoon.

If I was so unwell that I could only manage to see my children in the afternonons, I would happily give up my hobbies to make sure I spent a bit of time with them.

AnyCorpseFucker · 09/10/2011 00:27

yup

ChippingIn · 09/10/2011 03:05

Yes - all of us night owls must be gambling Grin

FFS

You'll have to tell us what he told the captain!

How about a compromise - he sleeps in only one day of the weekend and spends the other morning doing family stuff?!

AutumnFalls · 09/10/2011 04:55

I am a semi nightowl, but up right now as broding about family finances and a pending trip to Oz. Not a gambler but maybe that would help? Grin

You sound a very accommodating partner OP. If you get some back then I can understand why you do it.

Cassettetapeandpencil · 09/10/2011 07:42

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AnyCorpseFucker · 09/10/2011 12:09

words are cheap...

AnnetteProfit · 09/10/2011 12:13

"gambling on the Internet ". Is that what they call it nowadays? ;)

midoriway · 09/10/2011 14:59

Let him stew. DH had a similarly delightful attitude to waking up at the weekend, even telling me what time to wake him for.

After he missed a few appointments he took the hint and got his own alarm clock.

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