To think my husband was way out of line?

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"D"H is very fed up with all the Covid stuff at the moment. I wouldn't say he's a full on conspiracy theory nut but he loves to go on about how it's only a cold and everyone being sheep getting more than their two vaccines ect ect.

I try not to get dragged into it but sometimes we do have a bit of back and forth debating about it.

Tonight we were talking about vaccines and he did his usual going on a rant because I've booked the booster and how the media is controlling me yada yada... Anyway, I was explaining why, whilst I'm not overly concerned about Covid personally, I do think vaccines, like any vaccine, are good for X and Y reason.

Anyway long and short of it he ranted a bit more about it and then finished it with "YOU DAFT FUCKING COW".

Not jokingly, very seriously and obviously annoyed at me like I'd done some sort of awful thing

I am so mad. I know it's not the worst insult in the world but the way he said it and the way it was so completely unnecessary has really pissed me off.

He is infuriating to talk to about anything like this, he thinks he knows best and I'm annoyed at myself for getting suckered into the conversation tonight but I wasn't saying anything personal to him and certainly wasn't arguing/shouting/raising voices, I am so pissed that he said that and made it into a personal argument.

You can’t argue with Stupid. And you’re not the stupid one OP.

1. My DH would never speak to me like that and I would never speak to him like that. Its not normal language to throw about to someone you love and its not something you have to tolerate in an argument. If I have spoken to someone out of turnin the heat of an arguement (regardless of whether I am 100% right) I would apologise for how I had spoken to them.

1. There has been evidence to show that believing conspiracy theories around covid/antimasking/antivaxing is similar in behaviour to someone who has experiences a religious conversation. You can show them the best quality evidence from the most esteemed sources and they will not belive it because they do not trust the sources. Then there becomes this right to freedom which trumps everything else.

1. I would challenge him. He's such a big shot sitting at home, big hard guy without his vaccines. If its just a cold.... volunteer in a covid admission ward for 1 day. See the level of sats people are coming in with, see the desperation in their faces as they gasp for breath, watch the guys in their 30s with no past medical history on 8L of oxygen which would normally earn them a high dependency bed but not in covid times. They are critically unwell but stuck in a ward with maybe 6 others because there are no beds for them and no staff to nurse them. I can imagine that its pretty easy to deny covid when you are not seeing it everyday.

So you’re a daft fucking pig for getting the booster and “letting the media control you” but he insults you and calls you names in an effort to control your opinion. Yeah, he’s a mental giant.

I'd be suffering a serious case of The Ick from someone this cruel and stupid at this point

He sounds like a narcissist. The only person who is ever right is him and hell mend anyone who doesn't share his views.

Narcissists are also hypocrites... if anyone here is 'daft' it is him. Will he be calling you names when he is lying in a hospital bed with covid costing the nhs hundreds.