Husband annoying when ill

[Katieandthekids]

Anyone else's husband hugely irritating when sick? I literally can't stand the whining and neediness. Literally how do you manage without just snapping. I just have to try and avoid him as much as possible

I've no advice for you, but mine is the same.
A normal cold and anyone would think he had flu. Sighing and sniffing.... Urgh

My two DDs eye roll when DH is ill - had several bouts last year and it was exhausting. He kept referring back to early in our relationship when I hadn't realised man flu was a thing and how caring I was

I have one here too. I volunteered for a 16 hr shift the day after he had his covid jab to avoid the dramatics. A cold puts him in bed for three weeks.

It’s pathetic and I genuinely consider divorce every time.

Somebody started an amusing thread on same subject which mentioned the Dressing Gown of Doom

We have the track suit trousers of doom here.

The dressing gown of doom! I suggest you enjoy that thread - it make laugh so much. I think it's in classics ?

Yes.

I do have sympathy when he is more seriously ill but the dramatics when he has a cold are ridiculous.

Yes completely!!!

We all came down with a cold few months ago, he was adamant his was much worse.

Its the constant sighing and moaning and groaning.

Such a turn off

Dressing gown of doom ✅
Pathetic sniffling rather than just bloody blowing his nose ✅
Smothering his chest, feet and the back of his neck with Vicks ✅
Coughing making the same noise the cat does when it's being sick so I run towards the noise ready to grab the poor cat ✅
Not being able to talk above a whimpering whisper ✅

Generally doesn't need any actual nursing so I suppose he gets plus points for that, he stoically carries on because obviously the house would fall down if he didn't drag himself out of he'd and how would we all cope if he were dead anyway.

Is there actually a man alive who isn't a whiny annoying pillock when ill

Mines the same, all 6'6" hairy assed biker brick shithouse of him turns into a whiny toddler. He annoys me more as I have chronic health problems & he compares whatever he has to what I live with. Like "oh singing, I feel so xyz, you have this all the time, how do you cope as I'm so so ill & think I'm dying. He even compared a haemorrhoid to prolapse ... & he definitely has a dressing gown of doom

My catch phrase when he's ill is "stop whining you soft fecker"

Dressing gown of doom ✅
Pathetic sniffling rather than just bloody blowing his nose ✅
Smothering his chest, feet and the back of his neck with Vicks ✅
Coughing making the same noise the cat does when it's being sick so I run towards the noise ready to grab the poor cat ✅
Not being able to talk above a whimpering whisper ✅

Spot on😂... can I add

Sits hugging the paracetamol box & tissues as if it's some badge that says, "look at me I'm dying, give me sympathy" ✅

Whimpers when he talks, gone is his usual booming deep voice in favour of a whiny little boy, his voice actually raises a few octaves when ill ✅

@RobinHobb

The dressing gown of doom! I suggest you enjoy that thread - it make laugh so much. I think it's in classics ?

Thanks. Im going to look it up.

I've seen my dp snap his ACL ligament without much off a moan but a cold or flu it's like he's being bloody murdered when he starts moaning I tell him to ring his mum who basically tells him to stop being a baby.

Oh yes, pathetic shuffling about and a Special Voice which is only ever heard when he has a cold. Constant moaning about how terrible he feels, in a tone of bewilderment, like a cold is supposed to make you feel like running a marathon but he’s got some weird, previously unheard of variety that makes you feel a bit shit Also, refusing to take anything which might make him feel better as he doesn’t like taking tablets “unnecessarily”. Just take the fecking paracetamol you arse, the 4 year old is coping better!!

I've come to the conclusion that vocalising his groans (instead of stifling them) must help DH feel a little better. So I ignore them and him unless he speaks to me directly!

I've seen my dp snap his ACL ligament without much off a moan but a cold or flu it's like he's being bloody murdered

This! Copes with horrendous rugby injuries but a cold has him acting as if he is dying.

The Dressing Gown of Doom.
The Slippers of Sloth.
The Tissues of Torpor.
The Paracetemol of Poorliness.

Ah yes but it covid, if fact it probably is. The little whimpery voice asked me to take him to a pcr test because he wasn’t up to driving. I said yes of course, just let me know when. Then puppy dog eyes saying if it was covid he’d be really ill (as though I hadn’t noticed the pandemic). I just asked if he could take the bin out because if was on his last legs I would have enough to do. If I am feeling very generous I would say it’s because he feels he has to justify doing less. But most of the time it’s because he wants his mum.

No, he gets on with it. I'm the one who makes a big fuss if I'm ill. If I'm ill, the whole family knows about it. It's become a running joke! I don't expect him to look after me or anything though.

Children I can deal with looking after when ill. Grown humans, no. Not unless they are seriously that poorly that they can't look after themselves. I am a single mum though so no-one looks after me if I get ill...and I still have to look after the kids!

You should try dealing with a DD with endo. It makes the DH look like Mother Teresa in comparison

This is interesting. There are obviously a large amount of people who agree with OP here. I wonder why this is? It can't be coincidence that men are so bad at handling colds.

Coughing making the same noise the cat does when it's being sick

Does yours poke his tongue out as he does it too like a toddler!?

My DH is the stoic one in this house. I’m the one who falls apart when ill

Omg the cat cough.