poorly person or hypochondriac? you decide

[orangelampshade]

Been seeing this man for four months. It's begun to strike me that he very regularly has an ailment. A sympathy-generating ailment. Or am I being harsh? Is he genuinely unlucky in the health department?

For instance: he has sinus problems, then asthma. Fair enough, I can see that he has this.

Two weekends ago, he was awake in the night with back ache and had to wake me up to say he was going to get himeslf 'some warm milk to help him feel better' hmmmm. Why wake me up at 2am to tell me this?

This weekend he's had a numb big toe, then a numb foot and lower leg (I think it's because he strained it while taking some exercise)he thinks it's something more sinister and it's been the main topic of conversation.

He's also had a 'nasty splinter'

a headache

and last night, he had a bad dream, then three long and troubled incidents of feeling queasy, which involved lights on, noise and waking me up at 4am onwards.

I feel I am loosing sympathy. At first, I would be concerned, now I'm

Am I being unfair?
Am I being too tolerant?

Opinions please!

figroll - nope, not making it up! even though we haven't spoken since the Saturday night debacle, he chose to email me with the breaking news that he is feeling queasy.

Also, I got an unrequested update later on with the reasurring news that he had had a packet of crisps and was feeling a bit better. I didn't reply.

It's just getting odder and odder, how does this man function in the normal world? (note: he is not SN)

orange, why don't you tell him in no uncertain terms to fuck right off ???

AF I rather hope she doesn't because this is too funny. My ex used to wee sitting down because it was too much trouble to make sure all the wee went in the potty when he was standing up.

it is funny taco

and I don't even care it isn't real

Hello AFMincePie - well, I'm not replying to him, plus, his weird communictions are steeling my resolve to find a nice, normal man instead.. if there is one out there, that is.

Letsblow - ha ha ha at 'potty' ha ha ha!!!

(whimpers at thought of no more nice normal men being left in the world)

I don't care if it's made up either

But I don't think it is. Here is an anecdote from my ex, tell me if you don't think they were separated at birth:

One night, he went to bed at 9:30pm after having slept in til 11am that morning and doing nothing all day. A few minutes later he called from the bedroom, "I'm just starting to feel hunger pangs..."

Having already cooked and fed him dinner, I offered him some biscuits. "Ok, I'll have those" he said. It took me a minute to realize that he was thinking that I was going to bring the biscuits for him to eat in bed. Crumbly biscuits. In bed. The entire apt was about 600 sqft and you could walk to the kitchen from the bdrm in 5 steps. But he was too tired to get up and get his own motherfucking biscuits and sit up to eat them.

I can see why he is your ex

lolol

They truly must be related in some way, it sounds frighteningly familiar. Blimey, you 'fed' him dinner! Maybe it's the same man? Maybe there are loads of them about? Where did they escape from? Which laboratory created these baby men?

Letsblow - was this the reason you broke up with Mr Bedridden Biscuits? (as if it isn't enough)

OMG you guys I am ashamed to admit that he broke up with me. I was going to do it but I owed him money so thought it would look bad. But by that time my motherly instinct had vanished and I started responding to his ridiculous requests with You Have Got to Be Fucking Kidding Me. He decided it was no longer worth it and buggered off to annoy and manipulate some other poor woman.

I never paid him back the money.

nooooooo taco, the bastard beat you to it !

I had a friend who had an ex who used to pee in empt milk bottle when he was ill, as he couldn't possibly make it to the loo.

She tolerated it (no idea why) until she went to the shops and saw him coming out the pub and legging it back home.

Actually, he was more of a shit than a man-baby.

I did feel cheated for a while but it was such a relief really.

you can get tena man - sainsbos have them

Hey that's great news!

Maybe he could bypass with that standing up at the loo malarkey after all, heck, he could avoid having to even get up to leave the room now! Good news for when he feels quesay or is snuffly..

The journey to full man-baby is complete

(sincere apologies to those who are weak of bladder)

he might prefer the terry towelling type...memories!

would he look good in this ensemble Orange?

Not read the full thread - but yawn yawn yan. Can't stand people doing that. You need to nip it in the bud and tell him to stop going on about every single little ailment. Tell him that everyone has aches and pains all the time but do not feel the need to bother everyone else with it!

If that breaks up the relationship - trust me, it would have driven you CRAZY if you had put up with it for years!!!

Aww, I think you should reply to him. Tell him that it sounds awfully serious, and golly gosh, might even be related to the terribly unfortunate premature ejactulation problem you'd noticed but you (and your lady foof) were too awfully polite to make reference to.