If you said to your dh this period is making me feel awful, what would he reply

[Lardlizard]

Mine just goes mmmmmm

Zero empathy or sympathy

Mine would say "well i can't help you can i?"

Mine would buy me chocolate and let me spend the afternoon in bed. He's a keeper.

He could at least rub my lower back

Mind would offer sympathy and ask if chocolate would help (safe bet, chocolate always helps). Tell your DH to buck his ideas up!

He would give me a cuddle, ask what he could do to help and offer to go out and buy anything that might make me feel better. I feel sad for the previous posters!

Yep mine would say
‘Hmmmm’ or ‘oh right’. No sympathy. If I did just take to bed though, he would pick up the slack with no complaints. He just doesn’t do tea and sympathy.

Probably "wtf do you want me to do about it?"

And if I answered, "the childcare, the laundry, the dinner, packed lunches, the tidying and cleaning needed at the end of the day", I wouldn't get any more than "fuck off" in reply.

This lack of empathy and support is one of the many reasons we are no longer together.

I'd probably get a bit of sympathy and a brew and hot water bottle offered as I dont usually suffer from painful periods so dont usually mention it.

Mine would offer sympathy, painkillers and a back or tummy rub. He's a star.

Mine would say “aw there there” and send me off to bed while he did the immediate chores, or at least get me a cup of tea/glass of wine.

He'd probably say "Poor baby, what do you need?"

shall I run you a bath and make you a brew?

“Oh really?”- Not looking up from his phone

Mine would say "how come?"

His response to most things dysect the information until he can understand it-as he say . But it bugs the hell out of me 😂😂

Ibuprofen and tea and chocolate and hot water bottle and dressing gown and slippers and cuddles.

Mine would suggest I went and had a long bath, and he would sort dinner, bedtime etc out.

Ibuprofen and a wheat bag?

DH would check I had painkillers and remind me to drink plenty of water (mine is bad anyway but a hundred times worse if I'm dehydrated). Not a whole lot else he can do really.

Do you need any painkillers, hot water bottle.

He went out and got me Dr Pepper and neurofen, but I was crying because it was a super painful one, he has been known to run a bath once or twice over the years.
Other than that I don't get too much sympathy month by month.

Just collected him and his excuse for being so lame was he was looking at work emails
Which he was

His standard response is ‘well, it’s your fault for eating the apple’

He'd probably say do you want some ibuprofen?

“Oh.”