DH gravely ill - I have no sympathy

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This is half light hearted and half a vent.

We have two young children who still wake up a lot at night. DH never does any of the nights - he got himself into a nice little position where the kids only want me. I really feel the lack of sleep creeping on me and has been for a while.

DH has been sick with cold for quite a while now. He walks around all huffing, looking like he is about to faint and when he talks to me talks supper quiet and his speech breaks up - you know where I’m going with this. Like someone acting for their boss when calling in sick 🤣.

I gave him no sympathy since he announced he had a cold (I was sick then myself) and I think we have a stand off here and he will be sulking acting like he is about to die until I acknowledge his extremely bad cold. I have no intention to do so.

If any men comment on here please say that you are a man if you don’t mind. Interested to hear male comments 😊

I've got one of these too, so frustrating. The whole 'have you taken painkillers?' 'No, it's not that bad/I don't want to' conversation, drives me nuts. He doesn't like taking painkillers, for some bizarre reason, now he knows he'll get no sympathy from me until he does or does something to help himself.

I am laughing so much reading this thread and @therealcookiemonster thank you so much for the video it has made me laugh so hard I really needed that laugh so thank you 🤣

@Walking2024now24days sadly his brother is also taken.

Neither of them are fully capable of earning a living though despite a very expensive education. So definitely male.

Unsurprisingly the sister who went to state school is the high earner.

"Munchausen's by Marriage!!" 😂😂 Oh so bloody true!

DH had a cold & lay on the sofa with the blanket up to his nose & FaceTimed his entire family 😂

My dh doesn't really get ill tbh, but he does this bit whenever he bangs his head. So, like, bumps it on a cupboard door or one of the kids throws a soft toy at him. He shuts his eyes and staggers around and without fail says "I'm seeing stars!"

The first time he did it, I genuinely thought he had a serious injury. Now that I've witnessed him do this for every minor bump, I just roll my eyes and say "alright Tom" (as in the cartoon cat. Because I'm pretty sure only cartoon characters see literal stars when booked on the head).

WHATEVER illness my husband has, a cold, or a sore throat or a spot of hay-fever, he loses the ability to stand up straight and hunches over as if he's in agony.
It makes me want to bury him under the patio

It’s the little T-Rex arms they do that drives me insane.

My oh got covid just after Xmas and spent 3 full days in bed, I was praying I didn't get it as life would have gone on as normal and I definitely would not have got 3 full days in bed to recover whilst he looked after the kids.

99.3f which is 37.38c, so Erm, normal temp then 😂

Offer his some medicine OP, this should do the trick

I know when DH is ill because he puts up the hood of his hoody and lies on the sofa with his back to the room. If he needs to move about the house, he will waddle around like a sad penguin. To be extra, extra sure we know he's ill, he'll loudly shout "gah!!" every time he coughs or sneezes.

My favourite one was the one and only time he's had covid and he called his mum to tell her he was really suffering. He was flippin' not and managed to carry on as usual (albeit under a hood and penguin-like, obviously). But his brush with Covid Doom passed into folklore and became the stuff of legend.

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Love this 😂😂😂

Oh, good heavens, you appear to have contracted Acute Fantinitis, dear.

Otherwise known as a Dose of the Absolute Fannies.

Having said that, DP was often a poorly waif until I'd impressed upon him the importance of Bucking the Fuck Up as we have bills to pay - and then the fucker came in from work and gave me a kiss before mentioning he had a bit of a sore throat and was quite tired. Three days later, when I was hooked up to a heart monitor, he asks 'do you think I should have tested for Covid?'.

But hopefully you wouldnt be such a selfish twonk to come down and spread your germs because you want the attention of letting everyone know you had seen sick??

You are being very unreasonable! Everyone knows that men get much worse colds than women.

My husband is currently speaking to me (and his work) like an ailing Kermit. He's signed off for the next week.

Funnily enough his voice rejuvenated when his mate called him and he's now planning to watch a wrestling show and play Xbox until 6am overnight.

As others have said I recently got the flu (properly diagnosed) and am still recovering but somehow I now need to look after him

Yeah... not really buying it mate

Why do they do this? That and the accompanying hard done by exaggerated sigh 🤬🤬

Thoughts and prayers.

whenever I am feeling a bit unwell it is guaranteed that my husband will also be presenting similar or worse symptoms an hour later.
My particular favourite is the doctor has told him he has bad knees - now he has to rub them to wake them up before he goes and does anything in an evening.

I hid the last body in pouring rain and caught a nasty cold, thankfully as a woman I am not struck down with terrible illness as men are when they get sick.
/jk

I gave birth to a 10lb baby. The labour was 36 hours long and I ended up with a 3c tear that required an immediate 2 hour surgery. A week later, my husband had a paper cut and asked me, with tears in his eyes, if I’d ever experienced a pain like that….

Me too ha ha

Omg, I just spat my tea out. It's so true!