As the days get shorter and those mornings grow ever darker, it can feel harder and harder to get up in a morning.

But for some people this isn’t just a seasonal change – it’s a way of life.

Night owls and those who simply struggle to get up in a morning can find this time of year even more challenging than the rest of the year, leading to problems in their work and home life.

The guy in this story isn’t one of those people. But unfortunately for him, his brother is, and it’s causing some real problems for him.

Read on to find out how the responsibility ended up being passed to his older brother.

AITA for refusing to wake my brother up for work when he goes back to sleep?

I am a 22-year-old man with an eighteen-year-old brother.

My brother has always been an extremely tight sleeper. Even in his childhood, our parents have tried to shake him awake and it’s still difficult to get him up.

In his later years, he had started to sleep through his alarm and, even though we sleep in separate rooms, I could still hear it and would have to go into his room to get him to turn it off.

Even as they’ve grown up, very little has changed.

Last year, he got a job at a retail store. He loves his job and his coworkers.

Unfortunately, recently, he has been late to work a couple of times. What had been happening is, although he does wake up when his alarm goes off, he had been falling back asleep afterwards.

Now, I know this happens to a lot of us (I’ll admit, it has happened to me at one point).

The second time it happened, while I was driving him to work, he had asked me if I could start checking on him to make sure he was up and going to work.

Let’s see how this older brother responded to the request.

I refused to do this. I told him that if he wanted to play the “closing your eyes after your alarm goes off” game, that was on him. I am not going to be there to wake him up.

The other thing is, if I were to agree with this, he would probably start blaming me if he ends up being late again.

He would consider it a new responsibility of mine, and would get upset with me if I were to fail to wake him up.

I refuse to have that responsibility when he is an adult now.

But this isn’t making things with his family easy.

I was talking with mom about this, and she told me that it would be a nice thing to check on him if I were already up and moving.

Now, truth be told, when his alarm goes off, I usually try to go back to sleep. But, maybe she has a point about it being common courtesy to do a simple check.

Am I wrong for setting this boundary?

AITA?

It really sucks that he’s being put in this position because his brother is unwilling to simply get up as soon as his alarm goes off.

Sure relying on his brother is an answer for now, but you have to wonder what will happen when he’s older and living alone.

Others aren’t going to take responsibility for him forever.

Let’s see what folks on Reddit had to say about this.

This person agreed that he shouldn’t take responsibility for getting his brother up on time.

While others encouraged his brother to consider his bedtime.

And others thought the brother could take further action.

It’s important that his younger brother learns now, at a younger age, to get himself up on time for work.

If this behavior continues into older adulthood, people will be less forgiving, and he might face some serious consequences.

Sure his brother could help him out now, but that won’t teach him anything.

He wouldn’t be doing him any favors.

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