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AIBU?

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at dp's need for ridiculous amounts of sleep?

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fizzbuzz · 29/12/2007 11:24

I usually get up with dd. She isn't an early riser, about 8.00am.

When dp gets up with her, he has to have a 2 hour nap during the day to recover

Am really pissed off with this, but he just says he's tired and has a cold, but he does it all the time. Am fed up with it, but can't say why.

In fact he seems to need a nap every day......but won't go to bd early

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chocchipchristmascake · 30/12/2007 16:08

Mine won't be any trouble at all, he'll be asleep.

andaRubberDuckinapeartree · 30/12/2007 16:15

Nice try, but still... no!

chocchipchristmascake · 30/12/2007 16:17

YABU RD. All you would have to do is make a nest for him in a big cardboard box with a duvet and a pillow - like the Blue Peter tortoise - he'd be in there all week.

fatslagwillstartjogginginjan · 30/12/2007 16:32

My DH doesn't nap (neither of us does) but he SLEEPS IN. It pees me off soooo much when we both get to bet by 10.30, I'm up with the kids at 7 and he still can't make it down the stairs before 8.30. I'm left to get breakfast and stop ds1 from squashing ds2 (6 months) for an hour and a half, and then get told off for letting them watch the telly.

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fizzbuzz · 30/12/2007 16:39

Crikey...what have I started....and I thought it was only me!

He hasn't needed a nap today...as he managed to lie in until 10.45am

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holidaywonk · 30/12/2007 16:41

lol at Blue Peter tortoise

My dp does this and it drives me nutso. He has had a bad cold for the last four days - hmm, anything to do with eating shite and smoking heavily do you think love? - and has left me to do all housework/childcare/cooking while he sits on the sofa feeling sorry for himself, and now that I've settled myself here to do some MNing, he sticks his head round the door and announced that he's 'going to try to get some sleep' (on top of the ten hours he had last night - about four more than me). So now I have a two kids wailing at me to come and entertain them. Grrrrr.

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fizzbuzz · 30/12/2007 17:02

Is it a man thing????

I ask because I had a converation at work with some (female) colleagues. It was about how when you have children, you never seem to be able to get the lie-in thing back. Having children seemed to cure us of the need to have-lie ins as we wanted to get up and do stuff.

But the men in our life weren't like this, and could sleep all day given the chance

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fizzbuzz · 30/12/2007 17:03

....conversation of course...perhaps I'm tired and need a 2 hour nap......

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Ripeberry · 30/12/2007 19:15

Feel great today! DH let me sleep in from me going to bed at 11pm and i did not get up until noon.
AB

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