A Connundrum
Sparked by this, specifically the line regarding “always tired”, I pose a question -
Why are women(z) always tired? Every girl that I’ve dated is either asleep or “tired” ~90% of the time. I don’t get it.
My girlfriend came home this weekend. Basic schedule:
Friday:
- Arrives Friday, around 7:30-8pm (understandably) complaining about being tired (long drive home, after a week of work)
- We go to dinner until about 10:30, a few mentions of her being tired (again, understandable) resulting in poor conversation
- She crashes about 12 after we get back. Thus ends Friday.
Saturday:
- Sleeps until about 11, 11:30 while I go to the gym. She gets up, complains about being tired. <errr okay>
- We run downtown to get food from the local deli at around 1 (I was going through my post-gym routine), and take it back home
- She eats it, mentions being still tired, then heads to the bedroom to “study” (I’m convinced this is really just a facade for her to sleep more)
- She “studies” while I go on my computer, rapidly falling asleep.
- I wake her, let her know she needs to study (at her request)
- She thanks me, promptly passes out again
- This is repeated until we decide to go out and do something seasonal around 4
- We get back at about 5, she mentions needing to study again until about 8, at which point we can hang out
- She passes out again. I wake her. She actually stays up until about 7:30 when I turn around and she’s asleep again.
- We get up, and get dinner and start drinking Rum and cider (picked it up earlier - good stuff) at around 8. We pop in Sarah Marshall, barely make it half-way before we relocate to the bedroom.
- We go to bed at around 10:30ish, maybe 11pm.
- I wake up at around 3:30/4, and she’s missing. Turns out she couldn’t sleep for more than a few hours, and is watching TV in the other room. Whaaaaat? <confusion>
- She comes back to bed, and I leave her be (I’m up at 9) until after 12 noon.
Sunday
- We get brunch, and she tells me shes exhausted tired. I am thoroughly confused at this point. We take care of a few of her errands, and she leaves by 2 for a family birthday, during which she’s fine as near as I can tell.
So by my limited math, she was home for ~ 42 hours, during which she was asleep for more than half of it. She probably spent at least 1/4th of it complaining about being tired or how tired she’s been, and the rest was us doing something.
Anyways, this isn’t anything new, and from people I’ve talked with, this is often the case. Why?! Why are women always tired? Men are tired too, and I can only talk for myself, but I always conjure up the energy to do things, be social with friends, etc. I don’t get why they can’t?
Weird. It’s science.
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