To find weekends really overwhelming?

[EIsbethTascioni]

I'm quite introverted and need a LOT of quiet time to feel balanced. I'm very fortunate to be a SAHM to school aged dc so I get plenty of time during the week.

I'm always ragged by Sunday evening. Ds2 is like a little barnacle, he's constantly velcroed to me. Dh is lovely but can be a bit puppy like and wants constant affection and physical contact. The teenagers are generally doing their own thing so not really a problem.

We went out last night as well (rare) so I've had to be sociable out in public. I feel grumpy and a bit teary this evening. I went upstairs to watch TV in bed while the roast was cooking earlier and every bloody bugger followed me up there!

I'm a right miserable grinch. I just want to be left alone!

Does anyone else get like this?

But you've got a large part of every weekday to have to yourself.

I totally sympathise - I work full-time Mon-Fri, but my weekends are usually so full that by Sunday night I feel more ragged than by Friday night.

I spend Saturdays washing and ironing clothes, fixing up stuff around the house and cooking a nice meal, and often have to drive DCs into town for haircuts, swimming etc. (a two hour commute). Then on Sundays there's a roast dinner to cook, another meal to cook for Monday (and DP does not operate by the principle that one person cooks and another washes up, so I have two large meals worth of washing up to do), bathtimes, homework. sighs

I don't even go out at weekends anymore cos I just couldn't manage the time.

I'm a right miserable grinch. I just want to be left alone! - I'm going to get this on a T-shirt...

I do feel for you but honestly it's just two days and your family want to be around you. I could understand if you were also working f/t in a busy environment but you aren't. You just need to psych yourself up for the two days at the weekend and look at the positives and know you've got time to yourself on every other day of the week.

I feel your pain people. I haven't been alone for 4.4 years. I have physically had at least one child on me virtually constantly in that time. I co sleep with all 3 and have held my baby for 3 months solid now. I hate weekends the most. No preschool and dh home too.

It is called touched out isn't it? When you can't take anymore and it is all over whelming. I put barriers in place no wandering into bedrooms with closed doors and I tell them I'm going for a nap so they know not to bother me op you need to tell them to leave you alone .