How overdramatic is your other half if slightly hurt…and if they aren’t how lovely is that?

[Notsympatheticenough]

DH burnt his hand on a kebab skewers on the bbq. Id offered him oven gloves.

he swore a lot, was dramatically quiet over dinner and keeps muttering.
He , has just refused nookie …as didn’t 8 hea4 hi. That his hand hursts.

it’s not that bad.

are strong and silent types better?

Yes. DH works on a building site. He cut his palm open on a steel sheet, got 14 stitches in it and went back to work for the afternoon. I'd have probably had a few days off!

He doesn't ever make a fuss, but is incredibly sympathetic if I hurt myself. He can't bear to see me in pain, even though I'm fairly robust and stoical myself. It's ideal.

I don't think I could live with someone who was very dramatic.

Mine has one setting for all levels of hurt - the same dramatic yell! He could have stubbed his toe or broken his leg, I wouldn’t know the difference. He does at least pipe down quickly afterwards, but the initial drama is only acceptable if he’d actually broken his leg. Which he hasn’t…yet.

I'm fairly sympathetic to
My friend, he never gets manflu. And rarely takes time off sick. Think the only time he has was when he was in hospital. And even then his secretary was bringing things to sign. He does like me to give him sympathy and attention though!

Yes that’s it. When I heard the initial scream I thought he’d at least lost a leg….

There are downsides to the strong silent type too, I’ve got one of those and he’s ignored broken bones until he couldn’t any longer and was in such a bad way with gall stones and major associated infections he went from conceding he was in a bit of pain to being admitted, on morphine and a drip in hours.

He never makes a fuss about anything so when he’s been ill or injured I don’t know how much to worry, which makes me worry. He’s very sympathetic if anyone else is afflicted with anything. He’s a good egg.

DW is a proper drama queen! She coughs once and immediately it's covid/chest infection/allergy attack (she's not allergic to anything) I am more the strong silent type and will ignore things and carry on. But I feel like if I don't carry on the house will fall apart!

We both have quite high pain thresholds and a natural tendency to carry on, plus on a practical level don’t have the luxury of wallowing. It’s great because otherwise we wouldn’t have stayed together, we both have very low tolerance for malingering and drama.

On the flip side it’s scary when either of us does make a fuss because we already know it’s serious. Plus it’s caused the odd row in the past when we haven’t mentioned we aren’t 100% and the other understandably hasn’t made allowances.