to feel annoyance when my childless colleagues keep saying how tired they are?

[sandyballs]

They don't know the meaning of the word

So you know everything about their lives to be able to judge them? You have far too much time on your hands. Just because someone has no children does not mean there aren't multiple factors in their lives that impact on them, including health or other responsibilities. Having children isn't a badge - it's a choice. Children is your choice - hey are entitled to their "choices" or circumstances too. I don't think it annoying when parents bang on about how tired they are or how they have no time to themselves. They made their choices. Why get all annoyed because others made different ones. And BTW - not everyone gets the choice to have children. It's pretty self-centred to assume the world revolves around your choices.

birthing a child does not give you the monopoly on tiredness. I really dislike this superior almost smug tone some parents have wittering on about “you don’t know the meaning of tiredness”

I agree - and I'm a parent!

Bit of a necro thread but yabu any future tired keepers 😅because nobody has anything else going on.

As am I!

So interesting to see the difference in responses then and now! I started reading this thread with out looking at the date and wondered what the hell had happened to MN!

Yes! You don't have a monopoly on tiredness because you popped out a kid.

Anyone can be tired for any reason, self inflicted or not it doesn't matter. Don't be that martyr, you chose to have children.

Also I'll trump you all, I didn't have kids because of my chronic fatigue due to disability so that I wouldn't be a shitty parent, oooooh beat that. 😂😂

YABU.

I don't have kids but work two jobs and care for my parents. I'm often absolutely knackered.

Many people respond to threads to give help, advice, thoughts and opinions to the OP. Why take the time to reply to a thread that is 15 years old? Complete waste of time. So yes, it matters.

All the mummy martyrs. No one can be as tired as mummy’s! I was much more tired in my 20’s working and living a very full life than I was when I became a parent!!
Get a grip!

Lol, no one 'owns' tiredness.
There are parents out there with 10 kids, does that mean no one on this thread is allowed to talk?

Exactly. Why do people get so worked up about ‘zombie‘ threads. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I did exactly the same! The difference in tone between the original posts and posters today is really stark.

I honestly wonder why some folks have kids. Parents don’t have a monopoly on tiredness, and I say that as a parent, it’s not a competition, other people can feel tired too. It’s irrelevant how they got that way, it’s not a race to the bottom. It’s not tiredness top trumps. There is no prize for being the most tired or the most worthy tired. You don’t get to invalidate someone else and declare your tiredness wins and no one else’s matters,

You are definitely being unreasonable.

I sleep really really badly plus have fibromylgia and am always so tired it's untrue. You chose to have children, I didn't choose to sleep so badly.

Glad I don't know anyone as rude and nasty as you

@sandyballs please Fuck off.
Some of us have health issues that make us tired...and my husband happens to be infertile.
<slow hand clap>

Cheers for making my fucking day, as if life itself isn't hard e-fucking-nough.

For goodness sake, how do you go and find a thread that’s 15 years old and post on it!

Oh for Fucksake so now if you don’t have kids you can’t say you’re tired? Fuck off to the far side of fuck and when you get there will you fuck off some more.

you have no idea why anyone is or is not
tired. It is not a competition. Just because you produced a child or multiples there or does not make you special or the tiredness police. Jesus Christ

I'm assuming this is a goady wind-up, but YABVU. People have different reasons for being tired.

Very unreasonable. Child free people are entitled to feel tired, just like those who choose to have kids. It’s not a competition.

It's just relative isn't it, maybe you think you're tired with motherhood then you get cancer and think jeez I didn't know tired, maybe you develop MND and think I didn't know tired. Major news, life shifts.

It wasn’t that poster, it was the one before that’s been deleted. 😂

Perhaps staying up all night resurrecting zombie thread's when they could have been sleeping takes its toll on a person?

@MNHQ how about just deleting this because

1. It's offensive
2. It's a zombie
3. It's an offensive zombie

🤦‍♀️

Oh, and @MNHQ while you're at it, can you ban the knobber who resurected it so they can't find another...say a week or 2?
Ta