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The controversial issue of lie ins....

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Ams25 · 29/01/2012 07:13

Here are the facts:
DH works full time, very hard. Leaves the house at half six, home at half six. Often brings home work in the evenings and weekends.
I am a SAHM. We have a toddler and a baby. Baby still wakes at least a couple of times a night, toddler occasionally. I do 99% of night wakings. I do 90% of the housework, including all the cooking and washing.
DH has a lie in on Saturdays, I have one on Sundays. However DH is always in a foul mood about getting up early with the kids, complaining about how tired he is, how he will have lots of work to do that day, how hard he works in the week etc. is it unreasonable to have one lie in a week? Does he have a right to be grumpy about it as long as he does it? Sometimes I am grumpy about getting up early with the kids, but only if I have had a bad night with the baby. I feel like DHs moods spoil Sundays.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 30/01/2012 05:44

I am blessed. DH and I both work and whoever does the overnight gets a lie in. Except when DD is awful like last night when she just wouldn't sleep and DH coslept from 1-5.30am got up with her them and let me sleep until 7. I don't thank him enough. We would both love more sleep but sharing means no one feels the other is taking the piss.

flyingcloud · 30/01/2012 06:29

We go to bed ridiculously early. DH works six, often seven mornings a week. Neither of us have a lie-in, although if one if us is sick, tired, run-down, we'll take a nap. We negotiate depending on how we feel. Hangovers are rare in this house so usually get a free pass.

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