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

guilt

I feel no guilr. But if I'm awake I'm up and dressed.

I hate having to get up early! I avoid it at all costs. I often have difficulty getting to sleep so will sleep in as needed. I usually get up slowly if circumstances allow. DH is the opposite- falls asleep instantly and wakes early- so I know he can take charge as needed ( disabled adult child). I don’t feel guilty but am a bit embarrassed if caught in my pyjamas!

No, never. I enjoy playing various games on my tablet. Plus I have so many subscribed newsletters to read on the tablet. I do not watch any television. However, I do wish I still had a dog, when I was up as soon as I awake to go out for the morning walk, or cycle 5 kilometres because the dog needed it. Then I was up and ready for the day. If the weather was good, I could potter around in the garden, until hubby wakes up.

When I was employed I used to vow that when I retired I would lie in. However that hasn't happened because I no longer have a set sleep routine. Unless I have an appointment I go to bed and get up when I feel like it. I rarely sleep more than 5 hours at a stretch no matter how tired I am when I get down. Ive always been a night owl and I am often up til 3-4 am.

Woke up at 8am today but didnt actually go to sleep til around 2.30 now I am curled up in my recliner keeping warm, is that classed as a lie in?

Suelld - Your timetable sounds bliss to me and perfectly normal. I hate getting up at the wrong time for my body. The best sleep I have had in recent years was during lockdown when I was going to bed between 2am and 3am and getting up at 10am. I slept through with no get ups in the night.

I don’t feel any guilt whatsoever, why would I feel guilt, life is for living the life you want to not some other person‘s idea of living but your idea. If this means laying in bed late in the morning that’s fine it’s no problem.

I am a night owl. Very rarely go to bed before midnight. When I retire I won't get up before 10am.

suelld, Why feel guilty about it. No one is the same, Its nt something you have done, it is something you are.

You sound exactly like DD. When her time is her own, she will be busy doing things around the house, she does needlecraaft and DIY until her bedtime around 3,00am and she will get up at midday.

She cannot wait for retirement when she will be aable to live by her timetable not other peoples. The last thing she feels is any guilt.

I feel guilty all the time, but can’t do anything about it, because of all these ‘larks’ and all these people who get up at times I was always told when young ‘old people’ get up “because they don’t need as much sleep”!
Always been a Night Owl, but a few times a month in my working life had to get up at 5 to drive to work. Hated it !
I have always worked at night after the children were asleep. When young I could get away with getting up at 7/8 and going to sleep at any time from 1 to 4 am. Now at 80 in a few months I have for years been unable to sleep well at night and though I go to bed at 1/2 am I can never sleep until c 5 am ( when a lot of you are getting up) I have tried every sleep remedy under the sun, but have now given up and as I live alone I can flexi-time my work (still self-employed) or appointments. So I sleep anytime from 3 to 5am on average and get up any time from midday to 4 pm on average! But I know I’m out of step with ‘normal’ people and I feel guilty ish!

I'm a night bird. Since being retired due to ill health, thank you long covid, I can't get to sleep until at least 1.30am then I usually wake up around 10ish & can quite happily stay there until I feel like getting up.
I always feel guilty! I dread the doorbell ringing or having to go out in the mornings.
I was a Nurse, always on shift by 8am no problem. I feel like an alien in my body & can't believe that my whole body clock has changed.

I could so easily feel guilty. When I let Rosie out around 6 the world is peaceful and silent, on a sunny day it’s probably still comfortably cool and I WISH I had the urge to do more than dead head a rose or two before going back to bed with a mug of tea!
When I read the Good Morning thread, many of whose stalwarts seem to be up, round the supermarket, bottomed their spare bedroom, changed their bed, washed the sheets and hung them out and it’s STILL only 6.30.
My question is, what on earth is there to do for the rest of their day?
Guilt has no place in our lives now we are retired.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

No I don't. I love it.

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.

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.

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 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!

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 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.