Man Flu- lord help me I'm losing my patience!

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My partner has a cold. It's been going on for 4 days now. I also have the same cold. He groans and moans constantly, coughs dramatically, sighs constantly, mopes around, complains how ill he feels, it's doing my head in.

He's acting as if he has the bubonic plague!

It's my day off today and I joked to him about having man flu and he went totally mental saying I don't have the same thing as him, I'm an asshole, I don't have to work today so feel sorry for him as he does (basically acting like he carries our entire household/earnings on his back which is in no way true!).

I've had the same thing, same symptoms but just get on with life? I've been out to get him throat sweets, lemons, honey etc even when I've felt like shit- plus he works from home and I've had to go out all day to work all this week in the cold 9-7 then working late at home so I should be the one getting some bloody sympathy!

I know it's a cold and I really don't want any sympathy really as I can deal with colds but AIBU to just wish he'd buck up and realise we both have the same thing but at least he gets to stay home in the warm all day?

God it's driving me mental. If you could hear how he coughs dramatically and belches and moans and groans you'd know what I mean! I just get on with being ill quietly and eating healthy foods, plenty of water etc.

Man flu truly is a thing. I text my mum last night and mentioned it to her and she said my dads the same- men would never get through child birth

@BlackeyedGruesome I can imagine, poor guy having to feel nauseas and puke all day AND THEN actually give birth to the baby.

🤦🏻‍♀️ is he an ex for a reason?

I'm currently sick. Though I identify as non binary, I'm technically a female, and unfortunately on the few occasions I catch germs, it's manflu af.

But with all the chronic illnesses, they do hit me like a ton of bricks.

Luckily, (cross fingers/ touch wood/ etc) I only have about two -manflus- colds a year. Maybe that's why they're so bad, they make up for all the other times I could have a -manflu-cold but didn't.

Oh poop, I fucked up ruined my strike throughs

Actually there is some support for the existence of Man Flu, an article in the BMJ suggests it's to do with men having immunologically inferior respiratory systems, (I don't know how to do a link - sorry). But there was also a superb sketch on, I think, The Fast Show, but I can't find that.

There was a brilliant thread about man flu and the dressing down of gloom near Christmas last year. If you can find the thread it'll cheer you up immensely.

My OH actually thought he needed an ambulance once because he had a fever and the sweats and a belly ache 😩

It's official. He's much better: I'm incredibly sick.👍🏻 I can confirm that I have not once moaned, groaned, coughed dramatically, sighed or belched.

I am about to go do the food shop and get some tyrozets as my throat is on fire and some sudafed spray for my nose.