Do you feel guilty if you have a lie in??

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I'm one of those who can't lie in. I just don't enjoy it, but I wouldn't feel guilty if I did! I'm not a lark either and my normal time for waking is 7-7.30 ish. Getting going after getting up is another thing altogether! I love a leisurely start to the day and if I've nothing to get going for breakfast can last until lunch time 😉

In a word no 😀

I feel no guilt when I have a lie in.
when I retired I vowed not to get up before 9.00 which eventually got stretched to 10.00!
currently i'm recovering from a groin strain - very painful - and sometimes I haven't got up until lunchtime! however bed rest has proved an essential part of my recovery.
hopefully in the next few weeks the pain will get less and less so I can get up earlier and get to catch up on the household chores I can't manage right now.
thankfully I live alone so nobody else can see the state of my house!!

To me, having a lie in is one of those great pleasures of being retired. I’m only up before 8.30 if I’m going out somewhere early or have an appointment. Otherwise, I can easily be in bed reading or listening to the radio until 9 ish. No guilt!

No don't feel guilty at all. Now my DH has also retired sometimes it's 9.30am before we rise. Who cares? We're enjoying our retirement the way we want to. If we've got things to do, on a particular day then we'll set the alarm, get up as necessary like responsible people, but usually we suit ourselves and long may it continue.

Why feel guilty? I don’t really understand why you would. After years of getting up to be somewhere which started with school when you were @ 5 years old you deserve to have as many lie ins as you want! There’s no-one to answer to is there?

I don’t feel guilty about anything! Oh, perhaps one thing. When I was a teenager I used to stop the cat sitting on my knee because I was afraid it would crease my dress. That was very mean and vain of me.

I wake up every morning at 6am.
I don’t want to wake at 6am. It’s infuriating.
I would dearly love to wake up,later, say 8am, but no.

I try to get back to sleep but it’s hopeless.
I reluctantly get up when bored and make a cuppa to take back to bed and wake up properly.

It’s all to do with the clocks going back. A ruddy nuisance.

No after over forty years of being a newsagent and starting work at 6am, it is a delicious delight to wake up at 5.30 and then stay in bed until 7.30 with a cup of tea and read the paper!
Been retired eight years and still enjoying this every single morning.

Someone I know takes great delight in telling me how early he goes to bed & gets up in the morning. I love reading & being on my own read when I want to. Sometimes till 2amish! Why should I feel guilty? It is my life & probably not a lot left at nearly 82. So if I spend the night with my nose in a book & sleep late its down to me. Do hate at my age being told I should be up early & to bed early just because he does!

I don’t go to bed before 2am so I lie in to 10am or later and I don’t feel a bit guilty! I’ve worked all my life and now, unless I have an appointment or a reason, I get up when I’m ready.

I do and I do not feel guilty. Taking time to rest, whatever that looks like, is self care.

(Ok, I would feel some guilt, but I would push through and rest anyhow if I needed it)

I go to bed around 2 or 3am, and get up around 11, I’ve tried and tried and tried to go up with husband at 10pm, and up by 9. but it’s never stuck!
I love the peace and silence of the house, and no one to talk!

No I don’t feel guilty. There are a couple of days a week that I need to be up and out early, but the rest of the mornings, if I want to sit in bed and read, answer emails or do an online word game, I have only myself to please. DH could never lie in, even on the weekend - a hangover from his military days. It was as if there was a bugle inside his head sounding reveille! I have no hangovers from mine!

I can’t lie in once I’m awake I also have to get up. I’ve tried doing it but I don’t enjoy it I don’t see it as a treat.

I'm hardly ever up before dinner time, unless I have an appointment, or a delivery. I stay up until 2/3am though. I'm a night owl. I'm 66.

No I don't. I love it.

The first pages of comments appeared to be from those who can’t lie in bed after 6 or 7 am. But the later comments seem mostly from those (like me) night owls who love a leisurely morning in bed before facing the day.
I can never get my head around people who regularly get up when it’s still dark!
Dark means night to me.

I don't feel guilty. Some of my best sleep of the night is going back to the land of nod at
6 am until 9 am.

Goodness me the days are long enough for me as it is without getting up at 5/6am! I don’t sleep well so l rarely get up before 9am and sometimes later. After caring for my mother, bringing up two children completely on my own and working in Child Protection for years. I never feel guilty about a lot of things but definitely not about having a lie in )

I must be the only one who like the OP feel guilty about getting up late. Why, because by the time I am ready to face the world having showered, dressed and put a bit of make up onb, my phone has rang several times and I have numerous messages and emails, so feel behind before I even start. I work most evening to midnight, so need 8 hours to feel human next day, don't always wake until 9am. Friends think I am crazy not starting my day earlier and I always worry if anyone comes to the door before I am ready for them. I so wish I could not care and just enjoy my mornings in bed. I am totally with you OP about the guilt.

Now we’re retired we often stay up until midnight or beyond and then don’t get up until 8 or so. Sometimes earlier in the summer but def not in the winter. Never feel guilty! Everyone is entitled to their own sleep routines.