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AIBU to be hacked off that DH is in bed with a cold when I am 39+4...

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Sniffwitch · 07/09/2011 18:25

Am 39 +4 with DC3 and in very slow pre-labour... Last few days DH has had a cold so "hasn't really felt up to" doing dishwasher/loading washing machine/any domestic task. Though he did manage to go for a 10K run on Sunday, and got very shirty with me when I suggested it might not be a great plan if he was getting a cold and DC3 was due any day.. He's kept me awakee the last few nights with snotty snoring and today he has moped about, sniffing and coughing, closing his eyes and drifting off to sleep, but REFUSING TO TAKE PARACETAMOL....?!WTF He is now lying in bed, playing with his smartphone, BUT NOT SLEEPING... Whilst I am doing tea/bath/bed with grumbling contractions.
OK, he can't help being ill - and he is genuinely ill -but either he needs to get up and stop moaning, or he needs to make a bit of an effort to get better -take paracetamol and have a nap...surely?!! If I do go into labour tonight I am likely to be so hacked off that I can't stand the sight of him!!

OP posts:
scottishmummy · 07/09/2011 20:10

dont know about tricks or ponies BUT
i do see a lot of tsk bloody men.as if one guy with cold=all men
maybe just the men some of you know or settle for...
and the kick im in clackers/hes dick/oh err hes a bad un are lame mn stereotypical responses to any story with a male protagonist.it usually goes
female=put upon goddess
male=dick.cocklodger

TheFlyingOnion · 07/09/2011 20:12

I have to agree with scottishmummy on this one

Men! is a horrible reaction to one slightly emotionally labile man pissing off his DP...

HumphreyCobbler · 07/09/2011 20:19

Well THIS man is being a total dick.

TheFlyingOnion · 07/09/2011 20:24

Aha! You might well be right.

THIS man might be a dick! I just don't like the "ergo, men are dicks" thinking...

scottishmummy · 07/09/2011 20:27

indeed.its the inevitable rolling out of the mn clichés
to any given situation with male protaganist
its lame and bit thick

PureBloodMuggle · 07/09/2011 20:28

"I would probably have shoved two paracetamol up DH's arse"

gawd this mad me laugh my socks off!!!!

OP If he's just got a cold then he's being a plonker, OK so being bunged up is no fun but there are times when you just have to Get On With It.

Maybe he's all nervous about the very near birth...

scottishmummy · 07/09/2011 20:46

oh yes how we laughed.not
out of interest gender reversal shuve up wife arse when she got cold...still as funny?
is it the rectal administration
or the mans arse
which bit that's so funny

pamplemousserose · 07/09/2011 20:51

Op, you are entitled to be hormonal. You are in labour.

ChristinedePizan · 07/09/2011 21:03

I really don't like the 'men are dicks' position either. It's crap - doesn't do anyone any favours. But if someone is behaving like a dick, I'll call them on it.

PureBloodMuggle · 07/09/2011 21:33

I don't think she'd have actually shoved anything up his arse scottishmum. It's the extremeness of the action to the situation that's the humorous thing. Not anything to do with rectal administration or men's arses.

There are some things you can't explain the humour of to others. Especially when they seem to take things literally.

scottishmummy · 07/09/2011 21:35

oh clearly its inexplicable to you why its funny
cause it not

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