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DH and his headaches. AIBU

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Whatthefudger · 23/09/2017 16:57

I'll give the back story here. DH started having headaches months ago. I've suggested a couple of things mainly that he should go to opticians, based on myself and DS both having crappy eye sight and crippling headache if we don't wear our glasses. Cue lots of comments about his eyesight being absolutely fine blah blah and him saying he wasn't a "speccy 4 eyes " like DS and I- but yet still headache. Eventually just booked him into the opticians and he sheepishly rung to say that actually his eye sight was pretty crap and that he needs glasses which must be worn all the time. The optician said this is most likely what's causing the problem and that he'll find the headaches should abate with glasses if not he needs to see GP.

He decided not to get glasses then and there as he thought they were too expensive and he would instead order them on line. 3 weeks later and still no glasses. So I asked when they would arrive. He finally admitted he hadnt actually got some as yet, but would order some soon. This is at the same time as spending every evening after work in bed as his head was so painful. He works on a screen all day, but doesn't get the headaches when away from work.

So 4 months on, he has finally ordered some from China which aren't here yet and he is spending another bloody weekend in bed with the curtains drawn whilst I entertain 3 Dc

The thing is I find myself absolutely furious with him and I can't genuinely decide if I'm being unsympathetic or if there is some base to be pissed off. I know he can't help it but on the other hand he hasn't exactly helped himself. It's just his constant refusal to so anything about it that grinds my gears. Should I be more reasonable about this. I just can't decide

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DistractedByAFatDog · 23/09/2017 17:37

He sounds a bit of a twat.

Ravenesque · 23/09/2017 17:42

He's an idiot. I'd be hugely frustrated too, especially with having to do everything around the house and with the children while he lies in bed because of headaches that he could have "cured" ages ago.

Also, why China?! Even in this country you can buy cheaper online from Goggles4U. I got my very lovely glasses for £72. If they'd been ordinary lenses they would have been way less. And they look good.

AnnieAnoniMouse · 23/09/2017 17:42

Send the kids in.

He doesn't get to doss about because he's acted like a fuck muppet.

Ravenesque · 23/09/2017 17:43

I seem to have deleted part of my message. My glasses are varifocals, so more expensive and I got two pairs for that price because it was a BOGOFF offer, which they seem to have going all the time.

ILoveMillhousesDad · 23/09/2017 17:47

Sorry, but he sounds like an absolute knob.

CurlsandCurves · 23/09/2017 17:47

Why is he being such a twat over having to wear glasses?

Given that both you and your dc wear them, I would be livid at the 'I'm not a speccy 4 eyes like you' comment. What, he thinks he's better than you guys or something?

Idiot.

And yes, I would also refuse to hand over the car keys if he's planning on driving without glasses. He's knowingly being a danger to himself and other road users.

Youcanttaketheskyfromme · 23/09/2017 17:50

Christ what a twat.

I'd leave him with the kids and go out. Hes only making life hard for himself. There's no need to suffer too.

He certainly wouldn't be getting sympathy.

AcrossthePond55 · 23/09/2017 17:52

Well, he lost any sympathy I had at the 'speccy four eyes' comment. I've worn glasses (now contacts) since I was 7 years old, and thank God for them! I'm blind as a bat without them.

Tell him to stop being an arse and a whinging baby. I'd stomp around the house singing at the top of my lungs and playing loud games with the children.

JaneEyre70 · 23/09/2017 17:55

You have to completely disengage with him over it. He's the idiot getting headaches when he doesn't need to, and I completely agree with a PP about going out and either getting food/doing an activity when he retreats off to bed. Not to prove a point, but to make your life easier. You must have the patience of a saint Halo.

Crumbs1 · 23/09/2017 17:57

Maybe he's just terrified that he's got a brain tumour and that the eyesight is just a distraction. One rarely wins with unkindness, in my experience. It might be glasses but equally there are many other issues and if it's bad enough to be in bed with curtains closed then eyesight may not be the issue. Advise him to go to GP and get his blood pressure checked and to rule out migraines or other causes.

Topseyt · 23/09/2017 17:58

He is a twat. I have worn glasses full time since I was about 3. It is a non-issue.

DD1 has worn glasses since she was 9. I would have been apoplectic with DH if he had disparaged her by calling her speccy 4 eyes as yours has done to your DS. That is really shitty of him and I really would pull him up very sharply on it.

You haven't answered the questions about whether or not he is driving with such poor eyesight. He certainly shouldn't be. If he is then he is even more of an arse, endangering himself, his family and others around him.

What's the betting that even when the glasses arrive from China he tries to duck out of wearing them?

Tameagobairanois · 23/09/2017 17:58

Gawd. I think he must quite like taking to his bed.

Can you go in with three nurofen and a glass of milk and tell him to just suck it up.

Ellendegeneres · 23/09/2017 17:59

I can't join calling a child speccy 4eyes with him being a good bloke. He's not. He's a dick. And he's whining and playing the sympathy card cause he's got headaches??? Bully for him, they're his fault! I wouldn't tolerate having to care for 3kids because the other parent is acting like your fourth kid. What a twat

Ellendegeneres · 23/09/2017 18:00

I honestly thought this was going to be a 'he suffers with migraines but won't see dr or take pills for it' post. I'd have some sympathy then. I really don't now

TinklyLittleLaugh · 23/09/2017 18:04

DS2 wears glasses. Our whole family has invested a lot of effort into constantly reassuring him that he looks really cool and pointing out cool sportsmen and celebrities with glasses.

I wouldn't have any respect for a man who used such a deeply pathetic phrase as "speccy four eyes".

Mummyoflittledragon · 23/09/2017 18:07

Silly man. Most people, who suffer from migraines would give their eye teeth for a solution to the pain. I agree with keepinworking, lots of expensive trips out!

Tameagobairanois · 23/09/2017 18:08

Tell him you can't wait til he gets his glasses because you're going to take to your bed for a whole weekend, but in a hotel. Maybe three times?!

Cheripie64 · 23/09/2017 18:08

Does eyestrain cause agonising headaches? Really? A few painkillers should sort it out, as someone else said, this sounds a bit more serious and he should get himself checked out.

christinarossetti · 23/09/2017 18:10

He's being utterly unreasonable - this would drive me up the wall.

If he was single, and wanted to inflict headaches that rendered him unable to do anything in the evening on himself, fine. Strange way to spend your life, but doesn't inconvenience anyone else.

As it is, he's effectively choosing to opt out of parenting by not doing something that will, in all likelihood and according to expert opinion, solve his headaches.

He's acting as though his headaches/need not to wear glasses are more important than both you and the children, which is not an appealing quality in an adult man.

MrsDoylesTeabags · 23/09/2017 18:19

YABU for thinking he's a 'really good guy', he really isn't. You need to raise your standards.

MatildaTheCat · 23/09/2017 18:24

He's a double idiot because the optician has told him to see his GP if the glasses don't help the headaches, so he's possibly got another condition undiagnosed as well as poor eyesight.

Probably not but possibly.

Tilapia · 23/09/2017 18:39

YANBU, I would find this really annoying too.

TableMirror · 23/09/2017 19:30

Unfathomable stupidity! Why would you suffer? I don't understand it.

TathitiPete · 23/09/2017 19:36

I'll echo what cluelessnewmum said, would contact lenses be an option if he has some kind of hang up about wearing glasses?

YouCantArgueWithStupid · 23/09/2017 19:50

I'd be going to the opticians and then going to a cheap opticians like specsavers and ordering the cheapest glasses.

Then once they arrived I'd throw them at his head

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