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Cancelled plans due to ill DH

59 replies

stayflufft · 12/07/2023 18:27

AIBU? Had long standing plans booked today - leaving before kids drop off at school and getting back after their bedtime.

DH said yesterday afternoon that he was getting a sore throat. Thought no more of it until this morning when he woke me up at 5 going downstairs to get paracetamol. He said he felt like death and ‘the worst he’s ever felt’. Temperature at a textbook 36.4. He then says he very much doubts he can look after the kids today - they were out of the house from 8am-5pm.

I cancelled my trip, worked all day instead and did drop off, pick up, tea and I’ll do bath and bed.

DH is limping around the house after spending all day in bed.

I have been called unsympathetic and horrible by him today. I was upset at missing my day out - if I had felt the same way and he had plans I would have just popped a few nurofen and cracked on with it (as I do, and have done, on many occasions).

AIBU? Am I a horrible person? Or is anyone else with small children and very little time to themselves similarly irritated when their partners are ‘ill’.

OP posts:
quietnightmare · 12/07/2023 22:12

@Duckingella 😂 I couldn't have said it better myself

StopMindlesslyScrolling · 12/07/2023 22:40

Don't just move your day out; turn it into a girls weekend away.

If he plays sick again, go anyway and make the following trip a week away and tell him that's what you'll be doing.

He doesn't get to control you having a life outside of your family; you are not his possession and you are allowed to socialise with others.

What a prick.

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 12/07/2023 23:29

Yeah I agree with everyone else. I think he was faking. Just too much of a co incidence.

But pretty rubbish even if he was a bit ill- he would have been child free 8-5 - loads of time to rest and feel a bit better for the evening.

stayflufft · 12/07/2023 23:43

Duckingella · 12/07/2023 21:59

My husband does this;the first hint of anything that could be illness results in him shuffling around the house hunched over,t-Rex arm movements,some dramatic shuddering like he's dying of plague and lots of sighing hoping to elicit sympathy/being asked if he's okay.

The only thing this leads to is my vagina slamming itself shut and me ignoring him whilst getting on with my normal routine.

This made me laugh - thankyou. This is exactly what my ‘DH’ is like, right down to the T-Rex like arm movements. I’m sorry you have to bear witness to this particular idiocy too.

OP posts:
Merryoldgoat · 12/07/2023 23:50

@DreamTheMoors

What’s your problem?

AngelAurora · 12/07/2023 23:56

You cancelled your plans for a bloody sore throat? More fool you

dreamonlucid · 12/07/2023 23:58

The only want to get yourself out of this is to just to not "plan" things. He has no time to be sick

dearJayne · 13/07/2023 00:04

Why didn't you go if the kids were out 8-5pm? He had all day to lie in bed after dropping them? I'm sure if he took a couple of nurofen he would have felt fine to drop the kids and then go back to bed.

Blondeshavemorefun · 13/07/2023 00:10

More fool you for cancelling

He didn't even have a temperature

And even if he had , you take a tablet , got to bed for a few hours as they were at school then pick them up and tv if need be

What did you cancel ?

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