That is my point, BMom!

MinM

FIL acted like I was the laziest person in the world when I woke up at 12:30 in the afternoon. However, while he is being "lazy" and sleeping at 9:00PM, I'm just hitting my stride and likely doing laundry, cleaning, or paying bills. 

Why does being up at 6AM mean you are more productive?

I wish I could find a job, in my profession, where I could work the hours I wanted and I could go back to being a night owl.

Paulo's Menina Bela

My H thinks the same way. He thinks you lose the whole day and can't get anything done if you sleep in til 8 or later. It's a PITA when he falls asleep at 7p or 8p and I'm wide awake. Also, he complains when I do stuff around the house in the evening, "Why couldn't have done that earlier and be done already?"

hmonkey

fil brags all the time about how early he gets up.  bfd, considering he takes a 2-4 hour nap in the middle of the day. 

loveshine1

I think it makes sense that everyone has their own rhythms as far as sleeping and waking.

If you're being productive, then does it really matter what time you go to sleep and what time you wake?

Without having to go to work, I would naturally go to bed around 12 and wake up around 8-9.  For the life of me, I can't understand why my MIL, who doesn't have a job, wakes up around 6 everyday.

**O-Face**

I'm the latter in this situation.  Though I don't think H is "lazy", his circadian rhythm is just different than mine.

Wonderw1fe

My dad is one of those "wake up and be productive" folks. He's up and doing sht at 6 in the damn morning. But he is also nodding off like a heroin addict by 8:30 pm. I'm the total opposite and boy, did we used to clash about that!

GBCK

there are also sleep issues that play into this sort of thing...
I have to be damn exhausted to fall asleep easily.

(and it easily takes me 2 hours a night to move from awake to asleep--but that's an ADHDer thing for me).

If I can exhaust myself, this is much MUCH easier.  WHich means a touch of flexibility goes a LONG way (and I don't waste 14 hours a week in bed TRYING to get to sleep.  And no, this isn't fixable.  I remember it when I was 7, it's not going away now.  Meds are a mixed bag and I have excellent coping mechanisms.  But it isn't going to be 'fixed' :-)

NOLABridesmaid

I can barely make it to 10:30 at night. Plus, I love a good nap.

No wonder I like old people.

MinM

I think I am going to want to sleep in when I am old, too. I just imagine I'll be going to bed early than I do now.

GBCK

NOLA, that cracks me up.
I had 8 am classes through all 4 years of college...
I can safely say that there are at LEAST 2 semesters when I can count on 1 hand the number of times (per semester) I went to bed before 2 am.

Because a degree of tired makes this all easier and I"d just sleep for 14 hours on the weekend.
(not healthy but...I'll never have healthy sleep habits)
Now?  well...I try to hit the deck by 11 pm because the alarm goes off by 6.  But I hate it.

Heffalump

This is DH and me.  I'm the early bird, he's the night owl.  It's hard for him to not think I'm an old lady when I'm ready for bed at 9:30, and it took me a while to realize that sleeping past 8:00 (the horror!) didn't make him a slacker.

TheDuckis

I'm more of a mid-day kind of person. I don't like to wake up before 9 am, and I like to be able to relax after 9 pm. H prefers to work straight through the week and sleep straight through the weekend.

MinM

H and I have the same sleep habits. If left to our own devices, we'll sleep until noon. He knows the #1 rule in the house is, "NEVER WAKEUP THE WIFE." He knows our children will also have the same #1 rule (once they know better).

6fsn

DH and I butted heads when we were first married.  No matter what time I got to bed I naturally wake at 6:30 (well unless there is a stinker screaming for me).  I like to get up and get moving and get things done.  After that I can lounge around.  DH likes to sleep until 9, laze about,  and not start his day until after 11.  It took a little while, but I figured out we were equally productive just at different times.

The only problem is when I wanted to do something loud in the morning or he wanted to be loud when I was relaxing.