To dislike Sundays....

[AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy]

The older I get, the more I have a kind of sinking feeling, on a Sunday. It’s like the weekend’s over, which obviously it is but it’s more than that. I have a real sense of doom in a “well, that’s that for another week”. And it happens every week. We don’t do much on a Sunday and it’s become a day of catching up on bed changing and ironing for me. I am old...nearly 56 so I’m not up for taking up skydiving or whatever. It’s just a sense of sadness.

Anyone else feel this way? Just me?

I'm the same

It's because I just don't feel like doing anything but when i imagine what other people are doing I feel low , or look on the dreaded Facebook

Same with bank holidays

I remember Songs of Praise being on and the old antiques show that was on (before antiques roadshow, or whatever it is). We’d have cheese on toast at around 7pm (Sunday lunch being a 3pm thing for my mum) with SOP on. Gloomy. It was all downhill from there.

Watch "The Durrells" - that'll cheer you up!

I’m 54😵but l quite like Sundays. Get up late, potter a bit, go out, garden, potter a bit more. Nice and relaxed. I try not to think about the working week ahead.

AuntyJackiesBrothersSistersBoy it’s no wonder you feel blue on Sundays. You clearly have such a commitment caring for your DS. You must say at the meeting you have this week that you all need some regular respite care. I think (from others I know in similar situations) it would hugely improve your quality of life by giving you some ‘me time’.

I notice there are several teachers on this thread. It’s great (for us all as a society) that you are working so hard. I hope you all also appreciate the extra 8 weeks holiday you get a year, where the rest of us soldier on working really hard too!!

Love love love Sunday's! Quaker meeting with the children, baked a gingerbread, 2 lots of washing done. Nice Sunday roast for tea. Now to watch a bit of telly with my feet up.
But I know how you feel OP, my husband always works bank holiday Mondays, they are my difficult day.

Well, it’s DONE now. Back into the routine of the week... I don’t expect to be doing anything other than my work so, that’s ok 😊. I think maybe, I anticipate something special happening at the weekends and Sunday has become a kind of “well, that didn’t happen, AGAIN” feeling, for me.

Have a good week everyone.

You're all daft! (not the OP, I think for her it is far more complicated than dreading the start of the working week). You don't like Sundays because it's nearly the end of the weekend and you don't want to go back to work on Monday. So then you waste half the weekend too! Before you know it, you'll hate Saturdays because it is Sunday tomorrow and you dread that. And then there will be no weekend left.

Personally I don't like Wednesdays. Not the beginning of the week, and not the end either. They even sound all wrong. And Wednesday's child is full of woe...

Wednesdays are neither here nor there..,

Ds2 was born on one and he was full of woe!
Love Fridays. It has a happy feel to it. 😀

Oooh, that’s interesting. I really like Wednesdays. That halfway marker. I’m always thrown by bank holiday Mondays as it shunts everything forward.

My dh is working is South Africa at the moment and yesterday was a bank holiday! on a Tuesday -

Sunday come 4-5 o'clock is when the shadow of the weekend appears for me. Its all downhill from then. We try and make the most of our weekends however, rain or shine.

I used to hate Sundays when I was working but now I'm temporarily a sahm I find them great. It's the only day we are all together all day. It's the only day we get a lie in which is vital for me because in the week we get up at 5 am for DHs job. I often bake or we go out for a long evening walk with the dog and buy some treats to take back home and watch a film.
I like to have a late night blitzing session to start the week as organized as possible.

Try to spread out the ironing over other days if you can. I used to iron all sunday long and I hated it. I have changed that now.

Yes, have decided to have Sunday as a day off. Even if I don’t do anything amazing, NO ironing/bed changing etc.

DH has gone self employed so, every day is the same now. He used to go out in a shirt and tie and Friday was “yay Friday!” now, it seems like a 7 day work week.

sounds like a good start!

After the exh left me I ended up living next to a garden centre with kiddie attractions, all day Sunday I watched families doing the happy Sunday day out, mine were usually either with him or doing their weekend job, going back a bit when it was usual for kids to have weekend jobs at 13!

One boring Sunday I went into a chat room using the name 'IhateSundays' had a laugh in there but felt a bit silly on the Monday, so changed my name, kept on chatting....2 years later I met my DH on there.

Now 15 years later I still don't like Sunday evenings as he's an HGV driver and away all week, my mood goes down when he puts his stuff in the car ready for the off.

I used to get that feeling when i was young and before children. Really strongly.

Since having kids I havent had it at all!

Maybe it will come back when they are a bit older....

@thedishon....aww, that’s a nice story. This weekend of course, being a Bank Holiday, will throw me. However, there will be no chores on Sunday. There will be 🍷😎 ☀️📚 and rest.

Have a good weekend all!

we get up at 5 am for DHs job

All of you?!

Not all of us- not the kids obviously.
I do because that bit between 5 and the school run is the only "alone time" I ever get and it saves my sanity😁xx

Oh I get you Ski40

It’s here. 😐

It is ! Another Sunday rolls round.
And it’s a bank holiday in the uk tomorrow as well! More oddness!

Sunday is amazing in our house! We both work Saturday though, so it's like the start of our weekend. I also get a lie in while DH gets up with the kids 😀. Tuesdays like my Sundays and my days for catching up on jobs when the kids are in school.

In your situation, I'd get myself out and do something. Get out for a nice long walk, go the cinema, go window shopping. Even before kids and shifts I loved Sundays, getting out and doing stuff. I miss my Sunday's sitting in the pub having a nice Sunday dinner and watching the football.

I love Sundays, especially sunny ones! But I understand OP, your caring role doesn't ever have a weekend and Sunday is another reminder of that. I hope you enjoy your self assigned day off today, sounds like you've more than earned it.

To the poster who made the comment regarding teachers and their "8 weeks holiday"- 1. We aren't paid for our holidays and 2. We work during the holidays (for free) to catch up on the utterly impossible workload we can't keep on top of during term time.

Sorry, rant over. As you were...