Why are men so dramatic when they have a cold?

[Chloefairydust]

This is the third day of my partner being bedridden with the common cold… I just don’t get why men are like this though. I mean it’s crap having a cold , I know, but when I come down with one I just kind of take day nurse and get on with things.🤷🏼‍♀️

My Ex was like this.
Dressing Gown of Doom and everything.
Bloody ridiculous.

They want to be mummied.

I have a DH who almost succumbed to man flu. It was touch and go for a while.
Sore throat, blocked nose and a slightly raised temperature, he had it all.
The moaning and groaning lasted a few days but fortunately he pulled through.

Totally agree with the PP about the dramatic sneezing. A few days ago,a man on the bus sitting a few seats in front of me obviously had a cold judging by the way he kept sniffing and dabbing at nose with a tissue. He got off the bus behind me and suddenly sneezed so loudly and violently that I must have jumped about a foot in the air!

Well yours does it because you leap into servant mode and cater to his whims.

Why don't you find something better to do and leave him to change his own foul bedsheets?

I don't think you can have it both ways really, pandering and complaining that he expects you to pander. Just don't.

Oh yes he has been living in the dressing gown all week!

Update: So the head cold symptoms progressed yesterday into a fever and stomach pains and nausea. He’s stopped eating and barely drinking. I had him do a covid test yesterday night and it’s a strong positive, so he’s loaded up with covid. Bless him, I feel bad now saying he was being dramatic. He must have been suffering, bless him! 🤦‍♀️

Well, isn't isn't the boy that cried wolf too many times 😏

Don't feel too guilty. If he didn't have form for dramatising over minor illnesses you may have taken him seriously this time!

Don't rub his feet anymore tho. And stop letting him snot all over the sheets!!

I’m like a man when I’m ill. I have a pretty sturdy immune system so I’m rarely ill: when I get a cold ( maybe once every 18 months) it’s proper heavy with lots of symptoms, not a sniffle and makes me feel quite unwell for a couple of days.

When we both had covid my partner was the one powering through and working ( from home) while when it got me I was feeling sorry for my shivering self under a blanket dosed up. I can’t work anyway as I’m in healthcare not that I could of!

Actual Flu is rife at the minute though we have had many cases on my ward at work.

Just read your up date! Hope he feels better soon!!

Not everyone is a wimp, clearly your partner is, even if it is covid.

I’m a type 1 diabetic and I don’t have a spleen, so colds etc do hit me harder and take ages to go, you just take some paracetemol and a decongestant and get on with it. Although I once did this thinking I had mild flu and I actually had sepsis!

Don't feel guilty op

Well if we remember men were at higher risk of covid due to their immune systems being weaker, and apparently that was just the flu so stands to reason colds and actual flu would hit them harder too!

I didn’t know men were more at risk of catching covid 😮…

Im hoping because I have had the updated covid vaccine (because of my job as a carer) I won’t catch it🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Was bloody awful when I had it last time, the long covid symptoms took 2 years to finally go… Awful virus …

I don't remember needing to wipe snot on the duvet when I had covid.

Being ill and experiencing symptoms is one thing. Expecting rather than hoping to be looked after is another. Being deliberately disgusting and expecting your partner to clean up after you is quite another again.

And yes this is true, it’s hard to tell the serious illnesses from the minor ones when he acts so dramatic all the time when he gets sick…🤷🏼‍♀️

Yeah I did say to him “do you mind not wiping snot on the duvet?” and his reply was “I can’t help it” and he looked really upset and hurt. Then I felt bad for nagging him when he’s not well…🤷🏼‍♀️

Are you normally that much of a doormat?

'Nagging'? You are your own worst enemy.

Yeah men can’t handle pain been I’ll for 10 days myself and it’s rotten and I’m like a bear with a sore head and very irritable. There’s a good reason why men don’t have babies

He can't help being totally disgusting with a lack of basic hygiene? Didn't know that was a Covid symptom.

Those sheets will need to be washed at 60° to kill the germs too. Nice that his "can't help it" is hus way of saying "fuck you, you can clear up my snot because I'm a cunt"

My husband currently
has hand foot and mouth and he's walking around holding his hands out like he's Oliver Twist holding an invisible bowl.

It's making me want to karate chop him in the legs.

Because some men like any excuse to opt out of daily life and think having the sniffles is a good way to be babied by their partners.

More fool anyone who waits on their partner hand and foot, or caters to their every demand because the poor man has the sniffles.

We're our own worst enemy sometimes. Women don't have to be doormats for men who want to opt out.

OP - covid is a viral illness the same as a cold or flu or any other type of virus. SOme people will feel very unwell, have serious symptoms , need oxygen etc and some people will feel like they have a bad cold..
your DH doesnt magically need extra sympathy just becuase it is covid..he is able to blow his nose on a bloody tissue ffs...
I would now insist he isolates himself to stop you catching it..so no more cuppas/baths run/sheet changing etc ..i would leave him to fester and tell him to txt when he is going to leave the bedroom to get himsefl a cup of tea so you can be out of his way

Is he earring the Dressing Gown of Doom, @Chloefairydust?

You may enjoy the original Dressing Goen of Doom thread.

Gown not Goen.

I shall put myself in the corner for not proof reading.