NO patience for DH's Man Flu
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Anonymous
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DH has had "man flu" for 6 days now. This is on top of working late all last week, leaving me to scramble when I pick up DS from daycare and get on with our evening after working, cooking dinner, doing bedtime, making daycare teachers gifts and picking up food for his office potluck. He won't go to the doctor, but seems to have energy to go play his video games, but not enough to get up in the morning and help get DS ready.
He's thanked me profusely, but I'm still frustrated. I'm exhausted, but I can't stop because he's given up! *Rant over* |
Anonymous
| 6 days is too many. I'm annoyed by DH's "worst cold ever" that he gets each year, but I give him three days of (fake) sympathy. After that, uh-uh. |
Anonymous
| DH is a great guy but the man-cold /man-flu thing is my biggest marital peeve. I can't stand the days of histrionics over just how sick he is and "oh I feel so awwwwwwfuuuuul". Especially when 9 times out of 10 we both get the same damn illness and I'm still trucking along, getting all my sh*t done. |
Anonymous
| I agree, so annoying!! |
Anonymous
| When my DH and and I get the same cold, he always says "it hits me so much harder than it hits you!" Uh, no...I just continue on w/ my life, unlike you. It drives me crazy... |
Anonymous
| If my DH goes past 3 days on any given illness that means he cannot help out as usual around the house, the rule is that he has to go to a doctor. If he won't go to the doctor, he has to go back to his usual helpfulness. Either it's serious enough that you need to see someone or it's not serious enough to prevent you from helping. |
Anonymous
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Poor little bunny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbmbMSrsZVQ |
Anonymous
Haha, my fiancé says the same thing. OP, just eliminate some of these tasks. You don't need to make gifts. You don't need to run around getting potluck food. Buy a bottle of wine for the daycare teacher and be done with it. Let DH get his own food when he's better. He can pick up a meat tray from somewhere on the same day as the potluck. Order a pizza for dinner. Yeah it's annoying when men act so sick but really you could be eliminating some of these stressors. |
Anonymous
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It's real. http://time.com/4182557/man-flu-study/
Now quit yer bitchin' and make some soup! |
Anonymous
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Viruses may have evolved to hit men hard but go easy on women:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2115987-viruses-may-have-evolved-to-hit-men-hard-but-go-easy-on-women/ |
Anonymous
| You sound like an obnoxious bitch. Glad I'm not married to you. |
Anonymous
| I'm so with you. My husband refuses to take cold medicine and then has the same line about it hitting him harder. No, I just took some Tylenol Cold & Sinus and got on with it. UGH |
Anonymous
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Oh noooo! He might be developing a full-blown case of Manthrax!!
Seriously my DH is awesome but the man flu thing is so irritating. |
Anonymous
Lol!!! Do your mother in laws sympathize with you or do they take DH's man cold seriously? My MIL (whom I love in normal circumstances) gets so melodramatic about it- I feel like the two of them together make me nuts! I'm sure that if my DIL one day tells me that my son has a cold, my first response would be, "Is it serious or is it a man cold?" |
Anonymous
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You're all misandrists, and the feminist author of this article thinks so too
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/manthreading-mansplaining-manflu-man-im-sick-this-misandrist-nonsense-1597232 You will also fail to recognise examples of male disadvantage, like the fact that men serve as much as 100% more jail time for the same crimes as women, or that last year 75% of all UK suicides were male. We legislate the way men sit on public transport. Men are significantly less likely to see a doctor when they're ill, and we trivialise their illness by calling it "manflu" – a paramedic even misdiagnosed a patient with meningitis last year. We wring our hands because men don't open up and talk about their feelings, then in the same breath we refer to their masculinity, their very maleness, as "toxic" and "fragile" and write articles that are a literal attack on their free speech. What do we want from our men? |