My husband’s long and arduous weekend. Handholds needed for him

[CalpolDependant]

Just a quick post, while our dinner cooks. My husband has had such a long and trying weekend. Let me know if you have any messages of support that you would like me to pass along.

He’s been on a 48 hour stag do bender. It’s been particularly tough on him because he’s 42 years old and has high blood pressure. God bless him.

There have been pub crawls, smoked meat cookouts, distillery tours where they tasted 25 different spirits, poker games and much more. And my husband has pushed through like an absolute saint. He didn’t go to bed until after 4am on both nights and has even lost his poor little voice from all the karaoke. He did 2 Cher songs! Wow!

I’ve had an easy weekend of it, in the homestead. Looking after 3 kids and getting all the washing done after our family holiday. Had a full day of work on Friday. Caught up on some DIY in the evenings too. General relaxation.

Which is why, when my husband arrived home this afternoon at 4.45pm and said he would be going up to bed for nap, I was happy to do the kids dinner and bedtime on my own.

The poor soul. Please keep him in your prayers and thoughts.

Of course the pressing question is this: who will play him the movie?

God bless this man's soul. I hope you had a cooked breakfast ready for him with his slippers and a newspaper

How can you be so controlling and unreasonable, making him speak to you and tell you he was going to bed when he got home? You should have opened all the doors, dimmed the lights and silently helped him hobble straight to bed without making your harridan demands for conversation. No wonder he's exhausted.

Has to be someone like Daniel Craig

The actor who played Jim Royale!!!!

This just popped up in my emails so post is a little late but I couldn't ignore and not offer any support.
OP your husband sound like a real martyr to the pain, he should be immediately sainted for all he has suffered for this weekend stag do. 😇

Yes. This is what he needs

Very very late to this post. But I still think OP missed a trick not to organise neighbours as well as children to sing "Happy" on repeat with associated instruments and pans.

Oh, you are brilliant! Devious, but brilliant! That would be soooooo fitting.

OP--I am across the pond but I have heard that many people want to learn to play bagpipes. Well, at least a few. Do you have anyone learning/wanting to learn the bagpipes who would be happy to give your DH the "welcome home" serenade he deserves?

Yes! Gender equality in bag-piping is a big thing at the moment. You and your dd should definitely consider it. Then you’d be able to cheer up your dh with some rousing pipe music next time …

Tears rolling down my face OP 😂

I think you both are being mean. Everyone knows that a pet snake is what one needs to cuddle with when recovering from a traumatic weekend. To make it extra-special, do not tell him you bought it for him and just let it slide under the covers with him and give him the loving he deserves.

I would bet there are moving/heartwarming/loud beginner pipes music on places like YouTube that would suffice in a pinch. Especially since they can be repeated over and over until her DH gets his strength back. And a day or two after.....

Is his mum still alive? Has she not been round to cheer up her baby boy and make sure his wife is feeding him up (when he feels like eating that is).

I nominate op him for a knighthood! Honestly you he deserves it!

He's longing for you to have your next baby, op, he likes you feeding him.

Maybe some rock music , would soothe him
would need to be super loud as his ears are probably a bit dull from all the karaoke

It'll be his turn for an easy weekend next weekend, won't it? Staying at home with the kids, doing a bit of easy household bits and pieces. You will have to go out with your mates, you poor girl.

Hi all, we've had a lot of requests for this thread to go into Mumsnet Classics so we're moving it over. And OP, we hope your poor poor husband has recovered by now...

Diddums.

Umm currently travelling back from a 4 da

Currently travelling back from a four day battlefield tour with my old regiment where we did a bit of standing round with heads bowed and then made a heroic attempt to prop up the French economy by drinking the bar dry. I suspect I’ll have to walk the dogs when I get home. I would ask for some sympathy but I suspect I’m more likely to get ptsd from the abuse. Great thread very funny.

@travellinglighter why would you get abuse for sharing an experience like that? I expect there are very few of us who could begin to imagine what you've been through and hope you are able to take some time to look after yourself over the upcoming weeks

Hi @QueenSmartypants . The battlefield tours are an old soldiers equivalent of stag doo”s. They are in parts very moving but the French treat us very well, there’s almost always a drinks reception followed by extreme boozy night. I hold a formal position in my branch of the comrades association and last night I was sorting Ubers for an 80 year old with a double hip replacement who couldn’t have stood if he had two good hips. The ptsd thing was a joke. Whilst there are people with PTSD, we’re mostly a bunch of boozy old farts telling warry stories Wives can attend but mostly don’t because they know what we’re like😆😆😆.

Dearest OP could I possibly ask for some advice? As your husband is such a solider carrying on. My poor husband he's had to endure a day drinking in the sun! When he got home he bravely said he would have a cold shower but the poor man has just advised he can't get his breath it was that cold!! I've had an easy day I only had to entertain a crabby baby and a dog in this heat.