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

[sandyballs]

They don't know the meaning of the word

i don't have children, never will, nice to know I will never feel really, properly tired 😀

oh do sod off. People have stuff going on in their lives..stuff that keeps them up at night. Caring responsibilities don't just start and end with babies and toddlers. I get up, on average, twice a night to attend to the needs of a disabled child who is 13, for example. So it's not my choice, or his. It's life. And life, for some people, some of the time, is tough.

I know it's a zombie but I found it fascinating to read the early replies. Lots of people thought OP wasn't being unreasonable. I think she'd have her arse handed to her now!
I don't think anyone has the monopoly on tiredness.

This thread has been a revelation. I've often wondered how I could pee off smuggo friends and colleagues telling me that I don't know what "true love" is because I've never birthed a child - and NOW I KNOW. 💡

Cheers, @sandyballs - you're a star. 🍺

Haven't read the thread.
This is a wind up, yes?

It's 15 years later and sandyballs is probably scratching their head somewhere thinking WTF did I do now?! 😂 or they're finally having a nap and aren't as cranky lol

Who's resurrecting old threads today, and why?!

I had 5 kids,worked and I'm still more tired now at 49 than I ever have been in my entire life

I think there's different stages of being tired.
I'm at the stage where no amount of sleep will refresh me.
I just grit my teeth and go on.

Because today's "active" is awash with threads from 2007.

The idiot that maliciously resurrected this thread (check out their username) has also revived numerous others today so people who really need some current/urgent help and advice will not get their threads seen as their posts have been pushed down the list by everything from 2007.

FFS! I'm so tired I didn't even notice the zombie in front of me.

Or scratching their balls 😂

😂

You are allowed to be tired, and talk about it, even when you don't have kids. We parents down own the right to tiredness!

Eh, pregnancy cleared up my CFS. I have never been as tired since my child was born as I was most of the time beforehand.

Yabu. I was always tired before DC. And I have a DC who sleeps terribly.

Before DC I was tired for different reasons - some of them really stressful. I put too much into my work, worried about it constantly and was living in constant burnout. I took responsibility for other people's feelings and was always doing something for someone.

Now I get far less sleep, but am generally happier.

I think it's more acceptable for child free people to complain about being tired than to admit to being stressed and burnt out and having mental health issues like anxiety and depression, which are very tiring in themselves.

Just because you have children doesn't mean people are not allowed to be tired 🙄

Ops kid will be nearly 16 now.

Or even older. Maybe grown up.

Did you never feel tired before having children? I certainly did, would have liked to sleep for England sometimes.

YABU
Its all relative. Do working mums get to be more tired than stay at home mums? Are single parents more entitled to complain? What about carers? Just live your own life and let others live theirs.

Maybe not for 15 years though?!!

I don't see why it matters if another person feels tired. You don't have any idea what's going on after they leave work, just like they have no idea how tiring children can be. I felt tired a lot before kids, and much more tired after, but I'd never be offended because another person felt tired too regardless of their situation

It depends on the life situation. They may not have children (or have grown up children) but they may also be working 2 or 3 jobs and be looking after older family members with, say, dementia....

Ha! Pre kids I was too busy to clean much. Now I work fewer hours but I have 4 kids and manage to clean their mess as well as mine and do all the other stuff too. I have no idea what I did with my time pre kids.

having said that, now that my kids are teens, it is a lot easier than when they were pre schoolers and primary school kids. They can be left, don’t have a million clubs to be taken to etc.

People without children can still be exhausted, it’s not mutually exclusive. What a strange thing to say