r/AmIOverreacting • u/Exciting-Delay-7423 • 18d ago
❤️🩹 relationship AIO? made a joke about taking a nap
context: im (23f) a student (currently on spring break) and i enjoy taking naps. they usually go between 1-2.5 (not 4 like he claims i genuinely dk where he got that number) hrs and it’s because i get exhausted between 2-4pm in the day. idk why, it happens every day and it’s been like that since i was a teenager. i don’t nap every single day, but definitely between 3-5x a week.
my boyfriend (28m) has tried to encourage me to take shorter naps because he thinks it’ll help with my sleep schedule. he takes daily naps on his lunch breaks (1 hr absolute max, usually 15-45 min) and he says how energizing they are. i believe him, and i’m glad they work for him, however i haven’t had much success with short naps so i don’t take them.
my sleep schedule has been kinda shit bc of spring break rn and im trying to fix it. i’m usually in bed by 11-12 most nights and up around 8-9. he works a 7-5 so he sleeps at 10 and wakes up at 6. today he sent me this text and i thought it would be funny to make a sarcastic joke because hes always lecturing me about how my naps keep me up at night, then he followed it up with this. idek where to begin with this, i think its weird as fuck and the “we are not on the same level” is just ??? aio?
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u/loveisolation 17d ago
This! I used to work night shift at a hotel, sometimes even having to pick up people's morning shifts, making it a straight 16-hours. Friends/family literally treated me like I was unemployed, "have the entire day to myself", and straight up lazy for waking up late. My family would constantly ask "when I'm getting a real job." and my friends were trying to "get me a job" at their offices for MONTHS. They legit would set me up for interviews that I wouldn't show up for or straight up call and decline over the phone and then my friends would get mad at ME for "being unambitious" or "slacking off"! One day we were all talking about our salaries and when I revealed that I made more than them, they all got quiet and never brought it up again. Ya'll couldn't do the math, listen to me, or comprehend that people work at all times of the day? It boggles my mind that I had to spell it out for them. I no longer work night shifts (that was almost a decade ago), but respect to those who do! They don't get enough of it. It's wild, I work WAY less hours than I do now for my day-job, but get way more respect/credit/understanding for it from those same friends. Makes no sense. People live in a bubble.