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The standard explanation for Sunday evening sadness is that people dread Monday. For a growing number of adults, the real ache is quieter and more specific — the loss of the only stretch of the week when no on…
Sunday evening sadness is almost always framed as fear of Monday, but for many people the feeling does not behave like fear. It behaves like loss.
The Sunday scaries industry has trained people to treat this feeling as an anxiety-management problem, solvable through better Monday preparation. That framing keeps missing the mark for a large group of people because their sadness is not future-oriented at all.
The small unstructured window on Sunday is often the only time all week that a person exists without being useful to someone else. The sadness that arrives when it ends is grief for a self that only gets to show up once a week.
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