Do women find it harder to wake up than men?

[Tiredandgroggy]

Finish an argument for me!

DH springs up in the morning, 6 or 7 hours sleep and he feels absolutely fine to get on with the day.

I go to bed earlier & still struggle to get up - I need at least 8 hours, and even then I feel very foggy and borderline ill getting up. It takes me a good hour to come round. I’ve always been this way, I don’t think it’s a health issue.

Thinking about it, all of my past boyfriends have been the same - needed less sleep & seem to find waking up less bother. More energetic.

AIBU?

No, we are both the same at getting up. We're early risers in that we wake up early, but like time to come round.

Nope, DH sleeps through everything, has never heard the babies/kids in the night, slept through me having a medical emergency, he's even slept through a small but loud earthquake. If left on a weekend he would groggily stumble out of bed in the late afternoon after about 15hours sleep. One of our DD's is the same the other DD is like me, early to bed, light sleeper and wakes at dawn.

I was a morning person before DH started snoring .. years of broken disturbed sleep with DC and more DH snoring has drained all reserves. The only chance to catch up is with a lie in. When DH is away on work trips - i notice my circadian rhythm kicks in - 7hrs quality sleep and wake at 6am.

DH and I are like you but we made two small people, one female who bounds out of bed like him and one sleepier male like me.

So I agree, it's personality rather than a sex thing.

I find I need less sleep when I'm exercising regularly. 7 hours when I am exercising 3 times a week or more, 8-9 hours when exercising once a week (or less).

Not to do with either sex, some students work late then sleep till 11.00am when revising. my BiL an architect works late but is useless in early mornings and even 9.00am meetings.
Upthread remark about sleeping through a bomb, I slept through an earthquake, well tremors of one.

Opposite here. I set one alarm and wake up not long after I hear it. DH sets at least five and snoozes all of them, sometimes doesn’t even hear them so I have to kick him to grab his phone and switch them off. He takes forever to get up.

Opposite in this house

No my ex found it way more difficult to get up than me

It obviously has nothing to do with gender. What a ridiculous question.

It obviously has nothing to do with gender. What a ridiculous question

You see similar all the time. “I have a boy child and a girl child and he does x so it’s clearly a boy thing”.

I think far too many of us have experienced something very different when it comes to night waking small children. Far too many fathers seem to be unrousable during the night.

That, of course, is not some innate difference between the sexes.

Definitely the opposite in our household!

Definitely the opposite here too!