First it was the dressing gown of doom. I now offer you 'the sigh'

[SweetFemaleAttitude]

So it used to be the shuffling in the dressing gown when your fella was ill. My husband doesn't have the dressing gown, but he does have 'the sigh'. He stands up, he sigh's. He goes the loo...he sighs. Hhhphhhh. He sneezes WACHOOOOOOO. He sighs.

My DD said we need to change his name to sighmon

I may strangle if I hear 'the sigh' once more.

'SIGHMON' 😂😂😂

Love it!

my ‘D’H has joggers of doom. I know we’re in trouble when they come out. If he added a sigh I may have to start lifting the patio……

Oh god. Feel for you

Oh gosh yes, very familiar with the sigh. My friend says her husband does it too when he’s ill.

Amusingly, one of the husbands in question is actually called Simon. 😂

I remember the day my DP looked at me with puppy eyes and said,

”No one has ever been this unwell.”

Quite.

Amusingly, one of the husbands in question is actually called Simon

😂 figures

'The sigh' as he gets out of the armchair when he has a cold- it's a sigh of 'no one has ever been so exhausted, poorly, run-down. I may have to go to bed early.'

My husband wants to know why I am looking at him and laughing. It's this thread.

He's actually a trooper when he's unwell, but he does tend to yelp in an exaggerated fashion if he even slightly bumps into something.

DH does the sigh and also says "I'm feeling very dramatic pause discombobulated" 😂

Mine groans. Literally groans.

I wouldn't know if he sighs. He's in bed all day with his terrible illnesses...although he will miraculously be able to get up once the kids have gone to bed and shuffle to the shop for some booze for hot toddy's. Funny that!

Oh Sapphire my dh yelps in a very dramatic way if he bumps himself!! He will then say something like “I just about broke my head in half!” 😂

My DH has mentionitis when hes ill.

E.g. 'I'd love to go for a walk but I'm just so ill'

'Do you remember when we went out for a meal? Can't do that this week because I'm ill'.

Yabu.. The trick is to absolutely absorb the first sign of The Sigh and usher the poor lamb off to bed... Close the door and enjoy the peace... Ex didn't try this shit more than a couple of times...

Omg that's so funny. Remember when life was good before I was sooooo I'll. SIGH

Yes! Adding holding on to walls/furniture when shuffling around the a room😂

Oh yes, i call it the Big Sigh

*ill

DH isn't that bad most of the time but I know someone who as soon as he starts a cold he goes to bed for two whole days, usually at a weekend, starts on a Friday night and stays in bed until Monday morning- so he can't be expected to do anything like look after children. He then comes to work on the third day and sniffs, touches his nose constantly and then touches door handles, desks, or sneezes enormous sneezes, moans, groans. It's absolutely unbearable and so pathetic. I have antiseptic wipes just inside my office door and I ask him to clean his hands and wipe up after himself if he touches anything. I have no sympathy at all and ignore the antics.

We have groans here too and worse than the dressing gown, an oodie is donned, hood up.

I can't hear it when DH makes discontented side effects to everything he does

Can I add dramatically running to the bathroom with hands over nose for tissue after every sneeze as if it's a code red emergency

I have almost the opposite problem (and I am really very glad not to have experience either the sigh or the dressing gown shuffle).

Mine says, while snotting and coughing every where ‘but, I’m not really ILL, am I?’

Yes, yes you are, please get in to bed and stop sharing your germs with the rest of the world! No, you can’t go to work, remember that time you threw up and had to come home? Gross.

DH does this shriek of pain when he gets a cramp… and just keeps doing it.

I have explained to him that in a Pilates class (I do a couple each week) at least one person will usually get a cramp, and people barely mention it. And quite often the person with cramps is me.

Up til then, I think he thought he was the only person ever to suffer with this debilitating condition. 🙄

If he hurts himself a little he does keep yelping, in the hope that someone (i.e. I) will notice and supply the necessary sympathy. This doesn’t usually happen, though. 😞

Or making a sort of 'urrr' sound accompanied by a dramatic shiver - to prompt me to ask 'Are you ok?' I don't. If he was really ill I would, of course but it's a cold. I just leave him to it- might leave him with a lemsip which always makes him feel better.