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AIBU?

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Would you say I’m a crap wife?

160 replies

Xmasiscomingg · 20/12/2022 22:19

Hubby came down with some flu like thing shivers and migraine yesterday. I got up with him at 2 in the morning and made him tea remedy with lemon oranges garlic. Stayed up with him until half 4. Baby woke up at 5 for bottle then again at 6 for nappy change. Then I was up at 8 put all the washing away got dressed and went food shopping with baby 2 older kids stayed with him.

Back home tidied up as they trashed the downstairs whilst I was out and then I done dinner for everyone. I feel like he wants me to nurse him back to health but at the end of the day I’ve got a million other things to do.

he lied in bed all day sleep and on his phone, all I asked of him was to take the 2 oldest upstairs to bed. They had already put their pyjamas on and done their teeth. He’s got so much energy to shout at me and sit on his phone for hours. But when I’m ill in bed he will ask me what’s for dinner and palm the baby of to me!!

AIBU? He is saying he’s going to expose me to his mum because I don’t care about him and I’m not looking after him properly 🤣🤣

OP posts:
dolor · 20/12/2022 22:20

MAKE HIM SLEEP OUTSIDE

angelikacpickles · 20/12/2022 22:21

Expose you to his mum? What a twit.

thelobsterquadrille · 20/12/2022 22:21

He needs to get a grip.

No way would I be sat up with my husband at 4am because he has a cold either 😬

Bestcatmum · 20/12/2022 22:24

Tell him to bloody grow up. He's not 5 years old. Maybe his mum would like to move in and take care of her baby.

WaddleAway · 20/12/2022 22:25

My DH is ill (flu like virus). Unfortunately for him we have 3 children (one disabled), 2 full time jobs between us and Christmas to prepare for. So bar the odd nap he’s mainly just had to get on with it, like I do when I’m unwell. Not ideal for anyone but it is what it is.
Expose you to his mum? Hilarious, but also, what a twat.

Devakai · 20/12/2022 22:27

Sounds a fucking manchild. You're doing far too much. Sounds like he's a crap husband. Do you work as well?

DocCee · 20/12/2022 22:27

Pathetic! He needs to grow a pair and take care of himself.

CurlsandCurves · 20/12/2022 22:27

So he’s going to ‘expose you’ to his mum?

’I'm telling my mum on you!’

Crack on mate.

Notthetoothfairy · 20/12/2022 22:27

Manflu can be fatal, take him to A&E and he’ll be seen first.

Blenheimprincess · 20/12/2022 22:29

Get him some of these

Would you say I’m a crap wife?
Aquamarine1029 · 20/12/2022 22:29

AIBU? He is saying he’s going to expose me to his mum because I don’t care about him and I’m not looking after him properly 🤣🤣

There's nothing funny about this. At all. I'd tell him to get to fuck and send him back to his mum's. The selfish, self-absorbed cunt.

AnneLovesGilbert · 20/12/2022 22:29

Why are you with him? I imagine he was pathetic, self indulgent, lazy, inconsiderate and lazy before now?

TheGoodEnoughWife · 20/12/2022 22:29

I am not saying you should use sex as a weapon but if my husband told me he was telling his mummy on me my fanny would clamp shut!

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 20/12/2022 22:30

Hide his phone and the tv remotes. If he's properly sick he needs to sleep in a dark room all day until he recovers <or dies of boredom>
Tell him you called his mum and she insists this is the best way.....

TangledWebofMincemeatDeception · 20/12/2022 22:30

Did he really threated to tell on you to his mummy??

Ugh how unattractive.

Pollyputthekettleonha · 20/12/2022 22:31

Tell him to do one.

Findyourneutralspace · 20/12/2022 22:31

Send him to his mum to look after him then!

HitMeWithAHotNoteAndWatchMeBounce · 20/12/2022 22:32

For God’s sake, OP.

You’ve tethered yourself to this loser. What did you expect?

You do realise there are men who are not like this out there?

N4ish · 20/12/2022 22:32

You sat up until 4am with a grown man who had a mild flu? Not sure why you think this is funny, sounds like he expects you to be a nursemaid to him as well as parenting 3 young children.

WeWereInParis · 20/12/2022 22:34

Stayed up with him until half 4.

What? Why?

BackOnTheBandWagon · 20/12/2022 22:34

TreadSoftlyOnMyDreams · 20/12/2022 22:30

Hide his phone and the tv remotes. If he's properly sick he needs to sleep in a dark room all day until he recovers <or dies of boredom>
Tell him you called his mum and she insists this is the best way.....

Definitely this. If he's well enough to get up and go searching for his phone, he can make his own fucking tea

Cm078 · 20/12/2022 22:34

Oh my, tell him to grow up. 🙈

Devoutspoken · 20/12/2022 22:34

Why did you get up with him at 2am? Weird

HitMeWithAHotNoteAndWatchMeBounce · 20/12/2022 22:35

I mean, at least you think it’s funny, I guess. Any thinking woman would find it repulsive.

Now we wait for you to return and say, ‘oh, it’s only light-hearted’.

Grim.

Dacadactyl · 20/12/2022 22:37

I think he is being daft when he says "he's going to expose you to his mum", but as ever, tone is everything. So, it'd depend how he said it iyswim.

I do think he IBU though and I don't faff about with my husband when he's ill.

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