Oh no. I’ve been making the poorly noise!

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I’ve got a dreadful fever and can’t sleep. DH is sleeping in the spare room.
However I keep catching myself making the poorly noise.
Please stage some kind of intervention.

I still quietly call out for my mum when I'm ill and think no one can hear. Makes me feel better. Groan away, I say!

But I always complain when DH makes the poorly noise.

Meh. So he's allowed complain. Doesn't mean you have to stop!

Just pull the covers over your mouth so he can't hear. I hope you feel better soon!

I am a total hypocrite when it comes to being poorly. DH does the full works - dressing gown, shuffling, moans, coughing with tongue out, general apathy. And I have zero sympathy as I know for a fact I will just have had the exact same cold but worse.

But when I am ill, I love a good wallow - better still if it's a work day so I can send DS to nursery and hole up on the sofa with lemsips and soup and crap TV and moan away to myself.

Moan away! Just don't let your DH catch you

I've got a poorly back at the moment, so I keep making a wincing/groaning noise every time I move.

You can do it if it's a) genuine and b) not designed to get attention.

It's like performance parenting - people think it means talking to your kids in public, but it doesn't, it means talking to your kids expressly for the purpose of impressing others. Likewise the poorly noise is only an annoying thing when done with the sole purpose of evoking sympathy.

I'm making the poorly noise too. Although I have a chest infection and had a coughing fit so severe this morning that I was physically sick so I ain't apologising for the poorly noise. I'm gonna make it all day!

You can do it if it's a) genuine and b) not designed to get attention.

That’s true. I get annoyed by DH mooning about the house making the poorly noise. I just go to bed.

If a man makes the poorly noise, and nobody's around to hear him, is he actually ill? 🤔