DH grunting with dressing gown of doom

[Littlemissdaredevil]

DH has a ‘bad’ shoulder. The non-stop grunting every time he moves is driving me mad. Even picking up the remote control deserves a little grunt. He’s also wearing the dressing gown of doom. In the meantime he is doing zero in the house due to his injury. I’m heavily pregnant and working FT.
For reference he hasn’t been off work, won’t see the GP, won’t got to the shop 1 minute walk away to get some ibuprofen, and was able to play football a couple of days ago. I wish he would just go and lie in bed then at least I wouldn’t have to put up with the grunting and shuffling.

So he's not even taken painkillers? Wow that's so manly. At least my DH (and 16 yo DS) just take 1 paracetamol on a Monday and then complain on a Friday that it's not working.

Fortunately, we don’t own any slippers here, so DH cannot do the slipper shuffle.

I had a cold/cough in January but was completely wiped out an spent almost a week in bed but still did basic stuff in the house. The next three weeks I felt like shit but dragged myself to work, etc. Being pregnant I can only take paracetamol.

DH gets my cold/cough (but a much milder version as he’s not pg) but declines to take an cough medicine, decongestant, etc. Funnily enough after I offered him cough medicine he stopped coughing!

Send him my way.
I have some decking that needs ripping up and replacing with a nice patio.

Can you go elsewhere for a few days? This is intolerably irritating. Mine is the same, will complain incessantly about a minor pain or ailment but refuses to take any painkillers. Argh!

He's playing football! What an act! If it was that bad he wouldn't be playing. What job does he do?

I totally sympathise with you. My OH is just the same. When he has a cold he moans constantly and lays around playing computer games. When I have a cold I just get on with things. He told me the other day I don't complain because my colds only last 24 hours whereas his are much worse!

At the moment I am doing 100% night feeds with baby whilst he is in a seperate bedroom. Baby was up every hour last night. When I said I was feeling tired and achy this morning his response was that he always feels like this becuase he can't sleep, yet he will not go to a doctor about this.

Poor you OP. People who won't take pain medication irritate the absolute shit out of me. Fucking martyrs.

Help him tie the belt. Right round his neck...
Just keep going onto another room. Do not give in to the sympathy seeking op...
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Is he doing 'the voice's as well? That kind of shaky whispery voice that comes and goes depending on if he needs something?

Well OP, he's a twat, but I bet you know that.
Prepare yourself.

So he can play football, but can't let his heavily pregnant wife rest for 30 min? What a lovely, supportive partner
Tell him to stop the act and move his arse, plenty of things he can do one handed. After the baby is born, I bet he will claim you can do everything one-handed while supporting your breastfeeding infant with the other ..

Grim. I’m really not keen on men these days, why are they so ridiculous and exhausting?

Does he do the 'zombie hand movements' too? Where they sit just out of reach of something (cup of tea, TV remote) and make little feeble hand-grabby movements (often accompanied by little whimpers of pain) towards it as a hint that you should move it closer to them?

Because there is no cure for that but a 12 bore...

Urgh there’s nothing more unattractive, is there? I may have reached the end of my tether with DH and The Worst Cold In The World yesterday when I launched a packet of paracetamol at him and told him to stop being a big fucking baby It did the trick to be fair. Business as usual this morning, although with a definite whiff of burning martyr.

That would piss me off no end, too, OP.

I would pull him up on it, too, because it is a double standard: you're expected to suck it up while he sits and lets you do everything when you're struggling, too. Doesn't bode well for future imo.

Yeah, why won’t they take painkillers? Mine is the same.

I suspect that they don’t want to relinquish their day(s) of self-indulgent lolling around in the illness uniform (in addition to the previously mentioned Dressing Gown of Doom, mine also grows The Beard of Indisposition), moaning piteously and exempting themselves from any domestic responsibility.

Painkillers would really rain on their parade, eh?

Interestingly, when they make it as far as the GP another interesting phenomenon can be observed. If any special drugs that you can’t get at Boots are prescribed, they like to proudly display them in high-traffic areas like the kitchen in the hope that visitors and family members might ask, ‘who is taking the co-codamol?’, thus enabling a long moan about the symptoms. If nobody bites, mine will often tell people anyway!

Oh I HEAR you. Mine is shuffling around now in his fucking slippers. He has had a slight cold and keeps making elaborate panting whenever he has had a drink. He also pretends to be bewildered/startled whenever spoken to. I might kill him later.

And yes - won’t take any paracetamol.

Dh has been doing this bad back stretch thing - bending backwards and moaning.
Strange when I told him I fancied an early night instantly cured and never been mentioned again.....
Though appreciate last weeks of pregnancy that may be a long shot for you to try op...

Can you go out for the day and do something for you so he has no audience? It might also be a message that the drama is not worth doing ... we can live in hope.. I feel for you.

My ex had a fucking revolting dressing gown of doom.

Thankfully my lovely current husband is a grown up.

I remember all too well the shuffling sad voice though. Sooo many reasons he’s an ex.

Dressing gown of doom 😂
Dh has had frozen shoulder twice oh my goodness didn't we know about it.

I’ve got a dh here who’s just announced he feels “off” and dizzy.

I have an inkling this has come about by my suggestion that we clean the house today. And my boring that I need to get some work done so need an hour/hour and half child free to focus.

He was moaning yesterday about the state of our bedroom. It is a mess. But has now gone for a lie down and will more than likely get arsey if I try to go in and tidy it while he’s resting. So I’ve brought laundry basket downstairs and have plonked it in the hallway for easy access to washing machine.

I’m now with ds (2) and dd(6m). Am not getting any work done (can’t even attempt this until dh is up) and am not getting any cleaning done either.

It’s funny as when I was sick just after New Years and could barely take care of my self let alone Dd (on maternity leave are that point) dh wouldn’t help me. And wouldn’t let me rest. He had to work. He couldn’t take time off to be with dd so I could rest. Ffs.

He also pretends to be bewildered/startled whenever spoken to. I might kill him later.

Mine does this. It drives me absolutely fucking mental.

So many of the men here won't take painkillers! Luckily mine will take anything I give him. He once had such an annoying cough, I went to the chemist and said please just give me something to knock my husband out. Luckily whatever they gave me did and we got some sleep but bloody hell why are men so soft when it comes to slight illness!