For context he's not usually like this so maybe that's why I was a bit taken aback.
I'm having a bad period. Approaching 40 and I don't know whether my periods are getting worse or if my pain tolerance is weakening with age?
But each month I end up in bed a couple of days. Migraine pre bleed then painkillers, hot water bottle. Pains in my back, my legs, nausea on the first day of period.
So today has been one of those days. Period started this morning. I've taken pills. Been in bed.
Came down to make kids tea and told DH I was going back to bed after and one of the kids can tidy the kitchen /do dishwasher.
I said 'sorry, I'm hurting, I'm going back to bed'
And his response was 'how many periods have you had now?'
In a really snarky way.
I asked him what he meant and he obviously regret saying it and tried to play it off like he was genuinely just trying to figure it out mathematically.
But the look and way he said it was like' shouldn't you be used to it by now? / just get on with it? '
I can understand his frustration, I hate that I'm so affected by it 2 days every month but it's not fun. It's not a choice.
And he doesn't understand how much it hurts :(
And he will never know. I wish he could just experience one period so he would understand.
To be fair to him it's the first time he's ever made a comment like that and it's quite out of character but it hurt, like I'm being dramatic.
I'm not even sure why I'm posting, frustration?
They just have no clue do they???