lazy husbands

fiendishly

polejunkie wrote: »

Oh god this really gets me wound up, as soon as I say im not well, he's mysteriously not well too. With exactly the same thing I have but worse, of course.

ah, I have been putting up with this for years. :mad: Sometimes I test him by describing imaginary symptoms or pains and seeing how long it takes him to start 'suffering' too. Most of the time it makes me so angry, of course

pulliptears

Mine is quite good really, and sympathetic.

DD came home from school on Thursday night and projectile vomited all over the living room, she's 13 and was mortified! She was really really ill with a very nasty bug, problem being OH had a very important interview a 2 hour drive away the following day.

I ended up disinfecting the entire house and keeping him right out of the way because I just couldn't risk him getting it. I was up all night with DD and all the next day while OH went to his interview. We've been waiting since Friday for me to start and nothing...

OH suddenly went very pale this evening, shot to the bathroom and became quite ill quite quickly. I've sent him to bed but he's done nothing but apologise bless him. He's sorry because he didn't want any dinner, sorry that I'll have to pick DD from her ATC meeting, sorry I'm on my own all night etc.

polejunkie

fiendishly wrote: »

ah, I have been putting up with this for years. :mad: Sometimes I test him by describing imaginary symptoms or pains and seeing how long it takes him to start 'suffering' too. Most of the time it makes me so angry, of course

I do it when im off shopping, i know he'l want to come and end up whinging after 5 mins and I only end up getting half the stuff I need or spending all the spends on nando's after all a man cant shop on a empty stomach! so I casually drop the 'i feel really icky' line...suddenly he's not to perky himself but has been a big brave soldier and kept it to himself until now, I offer him a lie down, get him a coffee, a dvd and when he's all tucked up announce im off out to the shopping mall.

He does look like a kicked puppy but if he wants to act like a child I will treat him like one.

virgin_moneysaver

OMG! - do men like this still exist? - I am so lucky with my OH, he's been hands on with the boys since they were born, I had 2 c-sections & could barely walk, he was brill - he's always been a shiftworker & i'd get up with the baby in the morning to find he'd done all the sterilising & the bottles were made up for the day in the fridge ( these were the days when it was OK to make them up in advance!) if they threw up he did all the cleaning up whilst I looked after the baby - when I went back to work after 5 months maternity he'd look after the baby all day then take him to my mums so he could go to work - I can remember when I had both boys with chicken pox & I was also ill, he was on nights so was sleeping in the afternoon, He'd have his sleep then I'd wake him & crawl into bed as he crawled out to take over - its what u do, u pull 2gether - I'm lucky in that he's rarely ill, he's not a man flu sort of bloke, even when he had his cancer, he recuperated at home, looking after the boys during the school holidays whilst I worked & then went back to work after 6 weeks as he was put on statutory sick pay. He says that I'm the lynch pin that keeps the family going, organise the finances, run the household, looking after everyone, his job is looking after me to keep us all going - I know how lucky I am & have been for 24 years!:)

dark_lady

Virgin moneysaver that sounds like you have a brilliant marriage. Its your Silver next year too. Kick back with your lovely hubby and enjoy it.

pulliptears

Bless him he just got up, apologised again,assured me he'll be well enough to take DD to school in the morning (yeah right lol) took some paracetamol and went back to bed.

make_me_wise

I have just shown your posts to my hubby and told him I want us to always be like that.

I think its lovely you have such a great marriage. Something to be treasured. I was going to say you are both very lucky, but I think its down to much more than that. The kind of relationship you enoy takes alot of effort on both sides. As you say pulling together through everything and not taking each other for granted

candygirl

My new OH is fab BTW, so there is a light at the end of the tunnel:D:DNot allmen are barstewards;):D

virgin_moneysaver

& people said it would never last, we met & married in 23 months!