I hate Sundays

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I've always hated Sundays. Ever since I was a little girl I would just get this really heavy, sad feeling on a Sunday and I wondered if anyone else did/does?
I used to spend my weekends with my Dad as a child and he would take me home on a Sunday where I would cry because I missed him so much in the week so I'm not sure if this feeling has just stayed with me deep down and now Sundays are tainted for me. But I'm in my 30s now, married with children and there's no need for me to hate this day so much but I still do. Sunday is like a January for me. Anyone else feel the same or do I need therapy? 🙈

That's 1/7 th of your life op.
Start doing Sundays differently so you can make the most of them.
Ive started organising my Sundays so they're more enjoyable and less stressful. It's still work in progress but I'm getting better.

I love Sundays! A lazy morning, roast dinner late afternoon. Catch up on tv I've missed.
I like not being under pressure to do anything, Saturday I feel like I should do something with the kids.
Definitely do something though if you dread them. Mix it up a bit maybe do your Sunday on a Saturday and whatever you do on Saturday on Sunday.

You think that's a sad song? I always think of it as upbeat and chirpy just about the fluttery feeling of being in love? I remember watching it as a young adult with partner and friends and we'd always sing along doing (excruciatingly bad!) harmonies. It was a tradition. I'm sorry its got sad memories for you as its just reminded me of a happy one.

And what I call Sunday music. Mum had radio 2 on, with all the old songs playing. God, it was grim

I’d plan nice things for a Sunday and make it a day where you look forward to something.

Oh yes I remember these Sundays. That heavy feeling OP describes. I had to go to chapel or Sunday school too, sometimes both. And that hour between 6pm and 7pm when there was nothing but religious programmes on the telly.

I got the Sunday blues throughout my working life even when in jobs I loved. I’m retired now though and love Sundays. Evenings are bliss knowing it’s not the last bit of relaxation before another working week starts.

Loathed Sundays as a kid. We had to drag our sorry Catholic arses the several miles to mass and back in all weathers. Silent streets, closed shops, kids not allowed out to play - then school the next day with the mental nuns whacking us with rulers - shudder.

One really important thing is to stop berating yourself for anything you do or feel.

Yeah you feel that way now, it's ok, you can make changes and that ok too.

Berating yourself is bad, guilt serves no purpose, it doesnt help you at all. Stop it - in any form.

I can't believe so many people hate Sunday. It's my favourite day of the week and was when I was little and everything was shut. A day to completely relax, make a roast, listen to my favourite radio shows, bake cakes and play games or watch a good Sunday feelgood film. Love Sunday.

Used to dislike Bank holidays as a child
Closed shops and James Bond films are all I can remember

I've called them suicide Sundays for years. It's even worse at Easter with what feels like 4 Sundays in a row

I think if you were a young adult watching heartbeat you weren’t having the ‘back to school dreads’ although still possible you didn’t enjoy your work or whatever you were doing on Monday.
I’m 40, the theme tune of heartbeat signified going up to bed and the next time I’d be coming down the stairs was to go to school, something I didn’t really enjoy, having probably spent all weekend at home doing nothing!
I had a bit of a bleak childhood 😂

I now live in Germany and Sundays are still like this. I quite like it. It's a quiet day where you know you won't be disturbed, no errands can be run. So we stay home, play in the garden, playdoh, paint, watch some TV. Get some house stuff done. It's a very chilled slow day

Like a lot of people on this thread I used to hate Sundays and vowed that.i would make Sundays less "sundaylike" when I had kids. So no homework on a Sunday.and do something nice in the afternoon. Go to the cinema or see friends. It really helped and I quite like Sundays now.

Yes, mine was a bit rubbish too. By the time heartbeat was about I was indeed older and in my power to have the sort of Sunday I'd want. Mondays not so much, so heartbeat was a last hoorah.

Not keen on Sundays. Hated that back to school feeling as a kid. Bath and hair wash then our mum drying our hair with a red hot hairdryer. When I was working I hated Sunday beginning and would hope everyone stayed in bed as long as possible because once the day started the sooner it’d be Monday and another week of going somewhere I didn’t want to go. I’m retired now so it’s better but Sundays will always have an odd feeling

As a child, after the boredom of Sunday School or church on Sunday mornings, and then a good lunch (my mother was a great cook) my parents usually entertained relatives or friends on Sunday afternoons - or we went to their house - for tea. Often it was my best friend and her parents, so Sunday afternoons were great fun.
As a teenager we'd moved house to a different part of the country. No more church - I'd get up late, then the afternoon and early evening was spent doing the homework I'd put off until the last minute, while listening to John Peel and the Top 40 countdown on Radio 1. By the time I was 15 I had 3 essays to write every weekend, so Sunday was kinda stressful.

I wonder if you might struggle with the lack of structure on Sundays? I remember not liking them as a kid, partly, I think because I would no doubt have some undone homework hanging over my head and partly, I think, because I liked routine.

I wonder if it would work for you to try to knock this one the head - Try a couple Sundays where you have some kind of routine and a couple where you've planned something really fun and come home tired, ready for showers and bed.

Maybe that’s why? It sounds like you do a lot of the jobs you wish you could avoid on a Sunday. Can you spread them out? Do some of them less?

OMG I could have written this myself, word for word!

I like Sundays now because I don't work Mondays but otherwise, yes to all of it.

Antiques Roadshow and Songs of Praise can still bring the feelings back a bit for me.

I read your title and then your post and thought, hang on, did I at some point change my username and write this?
I have NEVER liked Sundays and it goes all the way back to childhood too.
On Saturdays, I'll wake with a smile on my face. On Sundays, I'll groan.
It is hands-down the most depressing day of the week.

In fact, I've already decided that if one day I move abroad (in retirement), I would not be able to move to a little town, for example, that slows down too much on a Sunday. I couldn't bear it. It needs to be reasonably lively so that it doesn't carry Sunday vibes.
OP, your hatred is possibly mild compared to mine

Does anyone remember the Boomtown Rats song?
They should change it to Sundays!!

Anyway, I've said my piece so I'll shut up now

Oh the Sunday scaries! Yes, can relate. It's the back-to-work, deadline, school run, treadmill feeling. Ugh.

My mum still hates Sundays. She was a teacher and it was maybe it was because of that, but even though she's retired she still hates them.
She's just back from Tenerife and she hated Sunday over there too 🤦‍♀️