What time of the year do you find most difficult?

[OliveCrab]

Christmas is always a stress.

I struggle with Winter. Cold, dark, drab days, hardly any sunshine or daylight, no flowers in the garden, and I struggle to go for walks. (Too cold and dank and wet!)

I find Christmas a bit of a struggle these days too, and I have sadly lost the Christmas spirit, as me and DH have very little family now, (parents died over 15 years ago,) and we have one sibling each who live abroad and we rarely see them. (Not seen them for 8-10 years.) I have half a dozen aunts and cousins who I see 2-4 times a year, and we exchange Christmas cards, but I don't see them between October-ish and February usually.

And our adult DC live 20-25 miles away, and prefer to do their own thing on Christmas day, and see us 2-3 days before. We would like to see them on Christmas day but do respect their decision to just be alone together.

My mother used to make me feel like shit if I didn't go see her 2-3 times a week and ring her most days, and I ALWAYS had to go to hers for Christmas day. DH's mother was more chilled and was happy to just see us Boxing Day.

But yeah, I never want to make my DC feel like my mother made me feel, and I love them to bits and have a great relationship with them, and as I said, I do respect their decision. And tbh I have got used to it just being me and DH now on Christmas day now.

I don't like summer, particularly July as that's the month I lost my dad.

Don't like the heat and live in SE England so we get it badly
Always get more migraines and my son has terrible hay-fever. Daughter is like me and hates the heat too.

Also the constant daylight, bright sun and it's so noisy outside. All my senses get tired.

Love autumn and winter and quite like spring before it gets too hot.

December. Dark, cold, short days. All the nonsense of Xmas, and people being idiotic. We seriously need to go straight from November to January 🙏

Not here in Suffolk!

Oh it's awful isn't it? I used to cater for a crowd, now it's 3 I miss those large family gatherings at all times of the year, but Christmas is such an emotional occasion.

It's the period between New Year and Easter when I feel the most depressed. I make lists of things to keep me occupied when the weather is bad, but they tend to be DIY jobs that I hate 😬

Summer

January and February, the darkness, the snow (if we have it), the rain, the cold - hate these months!

Winter. I have SAD and winter really gets me down. Everything about it - the dark evenings, the cold, the almost constant shitty weather during the day making even going for a walk into a misery. I feel the cold very keenly which doesn't help. I love Christmas and that lifts my spirits, but then there's January to get through - ugh.

Very much a spring/summer person.

Even better, directly to May!

Eh? Summer's been more or less a washout where I am! (Midlands)
Are you outside the UK?

I hate January. Everyone seems to be poor, fat and sick of booze (probably because Christmas is now a six week orgy of consumption from mid November).

Jan 10th to Feb 28th. All the hope and excitement for the New Year and clean slate is gone, everyone is on a diet or being vegan. No one has any money, and feels unwell due to overindulgence in December. It's cold, grey and wet. All NY resolutions are usually broken so starting the (cold/ dark/ wet/ grey) year off with failure.
Feb is marginally better because it starts to become lighter and is thankfully a smaller month and no council tax due.

I love Spring, it's the hope of a light and warm year ahead and for me that starts with March.

Midsummer, Xmas and new year.

If I could bugger off from February to the end of April I would be at peak happy.

I love January, the nothing month where nothing is expected as everyone is too poor, on a diet, not drinking, got the blues so I lean into it with my books, pies and crumbles and a good pair of wellington boots for stomps in the woods.

Come February; I’m over it and got the arsehole till April (we always go away over Easter so mood improves massively!)

In all seriousness DH and I are making changes now so that once kids are done with education, we will make this a reality.
I found this year really hard to pick up from (entering peri around this time didn’t help but my God, didn’t winter just feel endless?)

I actually like January. I feel relief at knowing Christmas is done for another year. Also we've had the shortest day and we are slowly starting to see more daylight.

Best month imo is May...so full of hope and summer is near

The run up to Christmas.

When the weather is damp or wet but it's not cold enough to have the heating on (laundry related).

I used to absolutely hate January-April - freezing cold, wet, miserable months. Then I had dc in February and March 🥰 I still find January tricky, but at least I have their birthdays to look forward to.

November to January - so depressing. Then it starts getting lighter and spring is in the air! Our summers are nowhere near hot enough for people to have "had enough of the heat". We get a couple of hot days, but I would love more!

Just before Easter. The darkest hour is just before dawn…
I hate winter, suffer from SAD, but quite like the autumn and love Christmas. A tide of optimism and family birthdays gets me through the start of the year - but it’s that dank, damp, grey slog before Spring that really gets to me. I run out of fight.
May is my favourite month.

Yes this goes for me too. Already dreading Halloween, the dark nights, fireworks, then the absolute torture of Christmas and new year.

Christmas. People hanging around indoors together and spreading germs, specifically vomiting bugs, the pressure to have a "lovely Christmas", the stress of managing my 2 dogs around visitors or having to travel them down to family (4 hrs away) when they get distressed travelling and you can't get a dog sitter over Christmas.

The dark and the cold and the rain is fine when I'm not expected to be merry and bright.

Now.
It’s cold, dark and miserable but people fixate on how lovely and cosy it is. Being cold and soaked in the rain isn’t cosy.

Then we have Christmas thrown in our face for months but the second it’s over the people who went on and on want to forget all trace by the 26th.

It’s basically one never ending cost from now until at least January. I’m not looking forward to the raised energy prices from needing to use the dryer or have the heating blasting.

November. The arcane practice of putting the clocks back that should be confined to history.

No. I’m in Suffolk and you’ll see from PPs that it gets really hot here and generally in the south east

January-February. It's cold and dark, and the buzz and excitement of Christmas is over. I always feel in limbo waiting for the warmer weather and lighter evenings to kick in. My favourite time is the summer months, followed closed by Oct-Dec, and the buzz of the run up to Christmas.