My husband is tired. I thought I’d better tell you all

[FlamingoAndJohn]

There has been so much huffing and puffing around the house about how tired he is that I think he wants everyone to know.

Mines dying but won't see a doctor. He has GORD. Should take ppi for it. But because he read it has a side effect that disturbs your vision. He stopped taking it. Complains now that his vision is blurry . Last eye check 4 yrs ago. Complains that his back, stomach and throat hurts. So take your opemazole !
During lockdown he didn't work , spent all day on you tube. While I worked on covid wards, still did house work etc. But he walked the dog!
When it was confirmed I had covid, he looked at me as I was lying on the sofa and asked what's for tea!
I'm having a new patio soon....

Mine's always tired. Often sneaks off to the bedroom for a nap at least once every day but now he 'feels rough' when asked for his symptoms he 'dunno'. I am quite worried now because every time he comes (silently) in from the garden he suddenly starts sounding out of breath. 'Err what's up why are you panting?' And the reply? 'I just watered the baskets' he says looking all soppy and pathetic. So I suggest he makes a drs appointment ASAP..... 'oh no. I'll be alright' Bless him.

Mine is away this week. Oh the bliss. He asked me if it would be okay and I said of course, trying not to be too keen. He will be very tired when he gets back but maybe a spell away will cure his tutting and huffing. I just hope he hasn't had to hold his farts in for a week though.

.... mine is feeling compelled to watch cricket on the TV because he had go outside to bring in the bins. He now needs a "rest" .....

Dh is still tired.
He hardly slept last night moving between our bed, the spare bed and the sofa during the night.

Today we got home from work and sat in the garden. He complained he was in the sun and getting hot. I suggested he move 3 inches to the left and be in the shade.
He was to tired to move.

My 5 year old had shown is genetically Male....

He wanted his 7 year old sister to go upstairs and get his drink because he was just too hot and too tired to move

I made him do it himself. He is not using a woman as a slave for him!

Pray for me. Dh bashed his toe last night on a plastic storage box he helpfully left at the bottom
Of the bed. He can't go for his usual runs and is now calculating how much weight he may gain if he doesn't run for the rest of the week or perhaps two...

I've never felt more like shagging the hot young intern at work more.

Don't bother, he is probably too tired as well!!

Mine was stung by a wasp on Saturday. We all knew about it then and continue to be updated on how painful it is everytime he walks into a different room. He called his mum to tell her. I've been quizzed as to what I'M treating it with. She's phoned twice daily since for an update. He even had to tell everyone on his zoom meetings. He's tired also. Reckons it's the sting.
Managed a game of golf this evening despite being in agony. Stingbegan to hurt more once the dishes needed doing. 🙄

@chubbyhotchoc

Pray for me. Dh bashed his toe last night on a plastic storage box he helpfully left at the bottom Of the bed. He can't go for his usual runs and is now calculating how much weight he may gain if he doesn't run for the rest of the week or perhaps two...

How badly did he stub his toe that it’s preventing him running for potentially two weeks?

Haa haa....that’s hilarious OP. Trouble isI bet you pretty had to it all again to clear up his mess ffs!

The very young porter at work has just complained how tired he is (not rushed off his ffet). Must be chatting up all the femail staff that does it. The older guy never complains!!

My husband is also tired, not because he’s been staying up until gone midnight playing on his PlayStation though, no this is a mysterious sort of tired. However he’s not too tired to proposition me for sex...

Op! Put him to bed and take on all of his responsibilities immediately! The poor man must be exhausted. I don't want to alarm you, but I'm sure men can die of "too tired". Please don't take any risks, men are actually very vulnerable and susceptible to "tired".

We are missing a trick here......
At the peak of the whinging, when he claims he's just so tired and can't possibly function, say that you fancy sex and see how quickly that tiredness seems to evaporate! 😉

@Lovingitinlockdown

We are missing a trick here...... At the peak of the whinging, when he claims he's just so tired and can't possibly function, say that you fancy sex and see how quickly that tiredness seems to evaporate! 😉

Or .. say "Oh dear! WHAT a pity - I thought we could try something new in bed tonight but you're tired. Shame..."

I checked the ‘optical migraine’ with a picture of a scantily clad lady. He could see that alright.

@FlamingoAndJohn and @Happynow001

I bet he could see the lady quite clearly 🤣

Mine came and stood in front of the film DS and I were watching to announce he had terrible tinnitus. We just looked at him and he shuffled off.

Yesterday he was hot. This involved much complaining and moaning. Not that anyone else was hot at all of course.

My dh is very high functioning for a man, but has 'the beginnings' of a cold roughly every two weeks.

I have said that if he wants sympathy, I need evidence of snot or a cough. And abstinence from his daily 5+ mile run.

For the first 10 years of our relationship he used to ask me if he looked pale. He consistently didn't and once I told him that, as a man with an olive complexion, looking pale wasn't something he needed to worry about. We then moved onto them beginnings of a cold'.

He also used to take to his bed for a four hour sleep at the weekends. After 10+ years of that, I had to point out that he was awol in his own home and we hardly saw him, what with needing 2 hours for a run, a couple of hours on the guitar, trips to the co op to source his own meal because he didn't want to eat with his family etc, etc.

He is actually a very lovely, hard working, emotionally conversant man. It has saved his life thus far.

@FlamingoAndJohn

Dh is still tired. He hardly slept last night moving between our bed, the spare bed and the sofa during the night.

Today we got home from work and sat in the garden. He complained he was in the sun and getting hot. I suggested he move 3 inches to the left and be in the shade.
He was to tired to move.

He actually sounds like a cat.

DH never ‘sleeps a wink’ and yet has never witnessed a poorly child overnight amazingly.

All your DHs can’t be as tired as my BIL as he is the only person in the U.K. to have a job, you must all know him as he’s ‘working’ whilst everyone else sits at home getting paid by a magic money tree. He’s especially tired.

@MrsBobDylan DH regularly thinks he’s getting ‘the sniffles’ (which his mother always used to get). Strangely they haven’t developed into anything terrible or terminal yet, but I do have to keep checking if he’s hot, he never is.

This thread has had me in stitches. DH to be fair is pretty good, he used to be a right drama lama, but it all came to a head after I had just given birth to DD2.

You know how labour is so easy, quick and convenient and doesn’t involve being awake for, say 48 hours on the trot or anything, and obviously if a man was giving birth it would be so much quicker and more streamlined.

Anyway, I’d come back from theatre, after a crash C-section having been in labour for yes 48 hours, at about 8.15am onto the high dependency unit, where my blood pressure was haywire and It isn’t at all noisy bright and impossible to get any sleep. DH stayed with me yawning and muttering all he hadn’t had any breakfast, but trying to be brave, but went off home to pick up DD1 from my mum about 4pm.

Finally got taken up to the Labour ward at 10pm that night. They are such quiet and peaceful places - restful even, like a spa and newborns are so quiet at night, you just flick the off switch and they go to sleep. Not! DD2 was ready to PARTY!! I was up all night again and I swear I was starting to hallucinate.

DH rocked up at 10am then next morning, sat himself down and said god, I’m so tired, I still feel knackered from the other day. I swear if I could have got out of bed I would have strangled him with my catheter tubing. I think I let out a strangled scream and I let him have it.

He was very sheepish but the thing that annoyed me the most about it all was when I finally got home and was in shape to look at the photos (missed it all as was unconscious), there was a picture of DD2 getting weighed, and he was sitting in the background tucking into a huge plate of toast and a cuppa!!!

I killed the thread