...to hope DP gets the flu?

[oldschoolcool]

DS (aged 4) and I have had flu for over a week. The last seven days have been a blur of hot sweats, aching muscles, and burning coughing. I have no idea how I managed to get us through the worst. We ended up in A&E one night because DS's temperature wouldn't come down.

All week DP has been moaning that "it's only the flu" or "a bit of a cough". He has NO IDEA how ill we have been. He comes in from work and whines there is no dinner ready (I'm a SAHM and usually cook) the place is a mess and says I've been on the sofa all day. Yep, I have. I'M ILL and so is DS! What does he expect us to do?!!!!!

Today DP has come home early from work. He's feeling rough. Pah! He gets no sympathy from me. I truly hope he gets this so he knows exactly what we have been through/are going through and can eat his words.

My ExH couldn’t handle me being ill. I have a chronic condition and if it flared up would put even more pressure on me. Even after my GP had a go at him when I collapsed after my second pregnancy and hospital was looming, his only response was to get his sisters in to ‘help’ to make sure I wasn’t admitted. He said he couldn’t handle two DCs under 2 and work. So he went to work and then went for drinks with mates after because needed cheering up about how bad things were at home. His sisters weren’t impressed.

He was a prize twunt and clearly always destined to be an ExH!

Hope you and DS feel better soon and seriously re-consider your relationship.

Perfectly He is, and not a very nice one

lost-pigeon
*reading this makes me happy I've given up on women•

so glad I'm single, men get all the shit, man flu etc, women just are weaker. Men handle flu a lot better, TBF. I understand where he is coming from

I showed this thread to my DP and he thought loads of the comments such as "lick the door handles" were hilarious and thinks the OP would be totally justified in fucking off out and leaving his lordship to wallow in his self pity with no help.

But that's probably cos my DP isn't a twunt

I would seriously reconsider my relationship.

I was really ill with tonsilitis once (whilst living abroad, in the 38° heat - I felt horrendous).

My then BF spent the whole time whinging and whining saying he hoped he wouldn't get it as it would be really inconvenient, and complaining he was bored because we weren't going out.

I felt really guilty that my illness was impacting him so much.

Now I'm older and wiser and I'd have told him to sling his hook a lot earlier after that.

I was really ill recently and DH did everything.