The answer is yes. Yes, I am being COMPLETELY unreasonable. I would give myself a kick in the chair if I could reach.
This week I have been working myself into a seethe because my neighbour has a bit of a cough, and the WHOLE world has stopped to help her out.
She has one small, fairly low-maintenance child who goes to nursery two days a week. Because she's got this cold, her husband has stayed home from work one one day to look after her. Her parents came to stay for the weekend to do all her housework and shopping and ironing. Her in-laws have come over to spend the day with her so that she doesn't have to look after her child alone for even 30 minutes. Her parents have been covering the times that her in-laws can't do. Now the child is going to stay with her parents for the weekend so she can rest.
She's not even that sick! She's up and dressed and calling me for chats, and last time we spoke she had just got home from buying a Christmas tree, loading it in the car, putting it up and decorating it! And she phones to tell me what an awful week she's having, and how it's relentless, just one thing after another for them, and instead of being a good friend and feeling sympathetic, I want to shriek that she doesn't know how lucky she is!
It is absolutely none of my business. It doesn't affect me in the slightest. It is nothing to do with me! But it's sooooo unfaaaaaair. I have no family support at all. DD thinks that "Granny and Grandad" mean a photo in a frame. And DP works hard and can't just take time off when I feel like an extra pair of hands about the house. I just manage when I'm ill! Even when I'm really ill! I'm a big green-eyed monster and it's not an attractive trait.
To make things worse, she often refers to how lucky I am to have such a positive outlook, and how brilliant I am for managing when things go wrong. She's right, I am lucky and I'd hate to be as lily-livered and wimpy as her. But right now I'm seething with irritation and envy. AIBU? Yes.