DH wanted to throw a sickie, I was no help.

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Ok DH has had a hard week I understand this. He has given up smoking and I am very supportive of this.

Today he didnt want to go into work (he works P/T in a shop) I have phoned before and given excuses to work for him and I HATE doing it! Just hate lying.

All morning he moped about thinking of stupid excuses. He said he was too stressed to ring in himself. I told him that he was a GROWN man and I didnt want to ring in again with a silly excuse. As far as I was aware you have to ring your manager yourself anyway if you are not going to be in.

Our DS who is 3 kept asking if he was going to work and my DH kept saying "Yes because Mummy thinks all the excuses I have are stupid and she wont ring in for me"

He then got dressed for work and moped about some more. I told him it was silly for me to ring in and say his excuse which was he had been up all night with sick bug and was currently in bed exhausted.

He left without kissing me as usual and stood at the door shouting "last chance" before slamming it and leaving.

I am not being unreasonable am I? I know he is having a tough week but FGS!!!

Depends if you want him at home with you or not. I used to try to persuade almost-ex-H to have a day off when he really was ill (he wouldn't , work was FAR too important for illness or his family to get in the way), and TBH I'd have been happy to fib for him on occasion just so he'd be at home with us for a bit.

Agree your DH is being childish, but I do have some sympathy with him.

How old is he?
Tell him that six-year-old behaviour is a real turn-off for you. Just in case he's thinking he'll have a miraculous recovery tonight and get lucky.

He was making a bad role-model for your dc by wanting to lie- in fact by encouraging someone else to lie. Your reaction was correct in not enabling his bad behaviour.

I'm not sure what depending "on whether you want him home or not" has to do with it. He's supposed to be at work. If he wants to skive off then he can make up his own excuses and not expect people to tell lies on his behalf. He certainly has no right to get stroppy about the OP's perfectly reasonably refusal. But in any case, I'm willing to bet that he had no intention of spending the day doing lovely family things. He just didn't want to go to work.

How was he when he came back?