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About DH behaviour when he is ill?

19 replies

dArtagnansCrumpet · 03/12/2018 20:17

I probably am being awful but I am totally fed up. I had a nasty bug (well still do, I'm on the tail end of it) a couple of weeks ago and now DH has it. TMI but I had it coming out both ends, painful stomach cramps, shaking, feeling freezing and muscle weakness. On one of the worst days, the kids were at school so I got a couple of hours nap but I was still shattered as I'd been up most of the night. DH was off on this day putting some new fencing in, it came to picking the kids up and I said I don't know if I'll manage to get to school without having an accident plus my son is autistic and often bolts so I was dreading chasing him. DH said well I can't really go as I'm filthy but I will if I have to, I knew if I said please go it would bite me in the arse later so I just got on with it and the day after and so on, all while DH was fannying about over the weekend in the garden so I had both dc alone whilst really struggling. But meh whatever, I'm used to it.

Now DH is ill, the world is at an end. He literally hasn't moved from his bed, whining and groaning even crying. He's snappy and constantly biting my head off Sad. I've done everything in the house with the kids, I haven't asked for him to lift a finger and he hasn't. He's been laid either asleep or on his phone laughing at whatever. He did come down a couple of times and started criticising how I was managing the kids, I explained I was doing my best and I'm still tired from now being 100% myself. I went upstairs earlier to talk to him and he eventually started getting annoyed at me and covered his face with the duvet Confused, he's managed to drag himself to the shop this evening (first time he's got up and gone out since Fri) and dumped the shopping on the floor for me to sort, I pack it away and put away some tablets he's bought like a cold and flu type thing. I hear him bellow from the kitchen where the hell are them tablets, can you never leave stuff alone you make things a thousand times worse and stormed off, crying Sad. I didn't know he wanted the tablets yet, I put them away incase the children got hold of them in the morning. I'm somehow expected to read his mind. I feel like he is being quite awful tbh, if I ever say how I just get on with stuff and he doesn't when illness strikes his excuse is that he must have it worse and I wasn't as bad. Sorry if iabu I'm just fed up. Thanks for reading.

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Woohoo1 · 03/12/2018 20:20

He sounds like a complete nob cheese!

GertrudeCB · 03/12/2018 20:24

What a fucking manchild.please do not put up with this cuntish behaviour. Hope you feel better soonFlowers

7yo7yo · 03/12/2018 20:25

What a fucking idiot!
Crying over tablets!
Twat.
Stop doing anything for him. You coped so will he.

PuntasticUsername · 03/12/2018 20:25

I'd swap his cold and flu tablets for laxatives and then book yourself into a nice hotel for a few days - give him a tiny taste of what you've been dealing with...

Hideandgo · 03/12/2018 20:26

The problem is simply that he’s a prick.

MissMarplesKnitting · 03/12/2018 20:31

Video his behaviour and post it to his mother, asking if he was raised to behat like that.

My DH used to be a pathetic ill person. Moped, whined and refused to take anything to help him feel better. He got told straight, that unless he was prepared to help himself and not act like a brat, he could take to his bed and sort himself out until he could behave like an adult again.

He not takes the medicines and carries on like the rest of us.

Don't pander to it. It's a ploy!!!

dArtagnansCrumpet · 03/12/2018 20:37

Glad it's not me overreacting then. It's just everytime he's ill, even if I'm ill at the same time he just takes off to bed and I have to get on with it. Sick of him taking stuff out on me too, I don't really deserve to be shouted at when I'm keeping everything going whilst he recoups

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ThatOneHurt · 03/12/2018 20:42

Urgh what a disgusting pathetic human being.
He treats you horrifically.
Why are you with him?

dArtagnansCrumpet · 03/12/2018 20:52

Tbh I don't know and I don't know why he is with me, he doesn't seem to love or respect me at all.

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LovelyGirlNOT · 03/12/2018 20:56

"whining and groaning even crying."

"He's been laid either asleep or on his phone laughing at whatever."

"stormed off, crying"

"his excuse is that he must have it worse"

Sorry, is this your DH you're talking about? A grown adult?! Confused Wow. I just could not tolerate this man-child and his pathetic juvenile behaviour. I simply could not find anyone attractive who behaved so whiny & wet! Eurgh!

Polkapjs · 03/12/2018 20:56

Such typical male behaviour. Mine goes into angry meltdown when ill. Won’t be helped but will not do anything either.

dArtagnansCrumpet · 03/12/2018 21:07

I dont feel attracted to him often if I'm honest. I find him hard work, which sounds awful but everything seems to be a battle. Never in my relationship of over 10 years, have I ever found anyone else attractive but yesterday I saw a really handsome man who was talking to gently and laughing with a little boy, it was lovely to watch and I got like little butterflies! Blush

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Anon653 · 03/12/2018 21:09

What a dick.

What did he do when he dumped the shopping on the floor? Disappearing off to bed? Why is he going shopping in the first place if he's so 'ill'?

dArtagnansCrumpet · 03/12/2018 21:22

He went upstairs, he didn't say anything so I wasn't sure if he'd gone to the toilet or to bed again. Obviously toilet as he came back down, ranting.

He went because I said I was going to go because I needed a few bits, he snapped saying he would go Hmm. I've been to the shop a few times since he has been ill but always forget one or two things especially with taking the kids with me Blush

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Blanchedupetitpois · 03/12/2018 21:24

What a horrible prick. Is there anything good about him?

Creatureofthenight · 03/12/2018 21:30

Well his behaviour befor he got ill was pretty crap too. I can’t believe he let you do the school run with a vomiting bug and he didn’t just say he’d go and get the kids.

littlemeitslyn · 03/12/2018 21:31

Kill him (metaphorically )Grin

Wordthe · 03/12/2018 21:38

It doesn't sound good🤨
perhaps if you just ignore him he'll get the message
just don't react to him, or treat him like the child he is being?

Topseyt · 03/12/2018 21:43

He's a twat. Don't pander to him. He sounds more like an overgrown toddler.

Whining and crying!?? He managed to go out to the shop. He could have come down and got his own fucking tablets. You aren't his servant.

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