My husband is being such a baby. He has a cold and so he has been in bed for 2 days and wants to be waited on hand and foot and keeps making these "Ohh ouch" sounds everytime he moves.
Its a freaking cold, suck it up and get out of bed you big wuss!!!
Why are men such babies? Anybody elses husband/boyfriend like this?
I swear, I'm with you on that one!
My boyfriend is one of those guys who will always top you . . . so if I have a backache, he has one so bad he couldn't move at work. If I am congested, he is so stuffed up his head hurts too much to do anything.
WUSSY!
I get so tired of it . . . my mom tells me when he gets like that to just walk away but any more I just want to scream at him.
Insted I just make fun of him, it makes me feel better.
"Insted I just make fun of him, it makes me feel better"
Hahaha When I make fun of him he gets all butt hurt and starts sulking.
Gen what you said is so true, when he gets sick he does this weak voice and says things like "Come be with me" and he cant do a thing. But if I am sick he doesnt want to be anywhere near me and I am still expected to take care of all the kids and cook dinner.
omg dont' even get me started on this one!
When I would ask hubby if he took any medicine, he's always reply with "oh that stuff never does any good!"
Well heck no it doesn't! not when it's still sitting in the bottle!!!!!!!!!!!
So I established a hard and fast rule: If you are not sick enough to go to the doctor, then you are not sick enough to require me to "take care of" you. If you are not sick enough to take medicine ... either over the counter or prescription .... then you are not sick enough to require me to take care of you.
I do not have time to baby a full grown man who is acting like a big freakin' baby over the sniffles. Suck it up! Be a "woman" about it and get it taken care of!!!
(Can you tell I've been married a LONG time!?)
My DH is such a baby when he is sick oh he will work through it but if its his day off its ooh I dont feel good get me a drink a cold towel rub my back hes horriable. but when im sick he says suck it up. but I got back at him good. we were visting my parents over easter the night before we were to fly back I felt very sick and the whole next day flying home I was miserable I mean sick and he kept poking at me he wouldnt let me sleep he was annoyed that i was keeping him up he wouldnt help me with the kids he thought I was being a big baby. so finally after days of not feeling well i went to my doctor and she told me to go to the er where i had a spinal tap and was told I have SPINAL MINIGITIES and would have to be admitted. boy did that shut him up he still hasnt stopped apologizing for how awful he was and now every time he gets a cold and says oh I dont feel good I tell him at least you dont have minigities.
My DH is the same way!! I long ago broke him of expecting me to baby him, but I still have to hear the whining.
For the last year I've been dealing with serious back problems and pain every day, so whenever he starts whining about something, I just counter with my own laundry list of complaints. Gets him every time. He actually recently admitted that if men had to have babies he would spend 9 months curled up in bed, crying. 
Mine's the same way.
I had a c-section with our last child, I was nursing so I couldn't have the really good stuff, came home 2 days after and was changing diapers and stuff. He went in and got a little tiny cut so we could fix the kid problem, he came home so drugged up it wasn't funny and slept for 12 straight hours. Then he sat around and acted like he was dying for a couple more days.
The last time we both had a bad bug he got it a few days before I did, by the time I got it bad he was getting better but who had to feed the children and stuff while I was really sick?
I will say that after the kids he took good care of me, I think it might have been because he was worried about complications but he cooked and did laundry until the doctor said I could lift and stuff. I know a husband who went hunting 2 days after his wife had a c-section leaving her with with mother who has lupus and had been in ICU less than 2 weeks before and 2 kids.
mbelgard are you serious? Wow I just can't imagine a man doing that after his wife had a C-section what a jerk 
Right now my husband who has been too sick to help out around here is now eating icecream in bed and just asked me to fetch him some hot fudge "but not the cheap kind, warm up the good one and then bring it in here and I droped the controls under the bed can you hand those to me" I am about to shove the controls somewhere.... 
Yes I'm serious, it's my cousin-in-law's husband. Their first child they moved less than 2 weeks after the c-section and he was sleeping while she was getting the kitchen set up, she was doing laundry and everything way before she was allowed to lift more than the baby. The hunting thing was the second child, they're still married and a third is on the way (planned because she needs to take fertility meds to get pregnant). 
If my husband was like that I don't know if I'd stay married but I know there wouldn't have been a second child.
Whew....I have to say that my DH is completely the opposite. If he asks me for a cup of tea when he's sick, I consider it an honor.
He really doesn't ever act less than his best even when he feels lousy. He usually just does what needs to be done.
In my house...I'm the baby!! 
...Right now my husband who has been too sick to help out around here is now eating icecream in bed and just asked me to fetch him some hot fudge "but not the cheap kind, warm up the good one and then bring it in here and I droped the controls under the bed can you hand those to me" I am about to shove the controls somewhere....
hahaha! Reminds me of that Frasier episode when Frasier is sick and need Daphne to bring him a straw, ".....but not a regular straw, one of the bendy kind!"
I guess I should count my blessings here ... I have known my dh for almost ten years and been married for a little over four ... I would not be able to count the number of times I have been sick whether it be a cold, the flu, food posioning, migraines, etc., hes always right there willing to help in whatever way possible ... now ... the one time that he wound up sick with the flu bug we were married and I did not know he was sick until the next morning when he did not go to work ... I asked him what was wrong and he said he had the flu ... ickkk! So I spent most of the day avoiding him .. until it happened .. he ran to the bathroom covering his mouth and I ran out the front door!! 
I couldn't take it! I stood on the porch for a few minutes then opened up the front door and said .... are you ok ... he said yeah .. I said ... Im going to my moms! I came back several hours later when I thought the coast was clear! I have never lived that down ...
I totally hear you Shifty!!!!! My DH is just like that to. He is the biggest baby when he is sick!!! If the kids get anywhere near him he is instantly MAD!!! Like I am supposed to keep them far away from him because he is too sick to be in their presence. When I am sick I don't get a day off!!!! He still goes to work and leaves me here with the kids to deal with it on my own. Doesn't matter how sick I am. It's totally infuriating!!! He is just another kid but usually worse than the kids!!! I love him but sometimes he grosses me out with his discusting habits and ticks me off with his laziness. He can't even pick up after himself!!! He can be such a slob. most days I feel like the maid around here. Men are or can be GROSS. 
What makes it hard is that if they act like a baby with EVERYTHING, you can't know if and when it really is bad, you know? My DH is like the stereotype, big baby...Yet, one time it was pneumonia!!!
Just today my husband had a really painful surgery. He had external and internal hemorroids removed. Basically, he's had a big apricot around his anus for the last year and other treatments have done nothing... now they've cut them away and stitched him up... you GOTTA know that hurts...
and he is acting like it hurts and is weak and tired and wants me to help in and out of the tub and to stand near him when he's toweling off...
yet, when I was IN THE HOSPITAL and having a major gall bladder attack (didn't know it was that at the time) a day after giving birth and ALL ALONE, that's what I had to do... When I was alone in the hospital when I had the gall bladder removed - no one walked me and the IV to the toilet or brought me the breast pump to relieve the milk build-up... I didn't think to call someone to help me take a shower to calm myself while having that attack, etc. I SHOULD HAVE, but it doesn't even enter my MIND to ask for help with the basic things unless I REALLY can't (when I gave birth to my first I had a severe tear (all the way through) and lost a lot of blood. I needed two people to help me up to walk to the toilet the first time...
I think that's the difference... men ask for help and we don't... I know that if I ASKED Dh to make me tea and to help me in and out of the tub, he would... So the real question is... WHY do they ask??? WHy does the "manly" guy disappear COMPLETELY? and it's so universal! and why DON'T WE ASK???
Melissa
That is PRECISELY why WE are the Mother's! We have to be there to take care of everyone. We are used to helping and not getting any help in return. It's the norm, it's expected and it sucks.
When I had my second child with NO drugs DH was a jerk. When it came to be time to go home I had to track him down by phone to find out WHEN he was coming to pick us up and take us home!! Then when he finally got there he never thought to take a single picture of me with my newborn baby girl before we left so I took them myself. I think allot of times we as Women are left holding the bag. Having to do things ourselves for ourselves. Pretty sad!!
That is PRECISELY why WE are the Mother's! We have to be there to take care of everyone. We are used to helping and not getting any help in return. It's the norm, it's expected and it sucks.
When I had my second child with NO drugs DH was a jerk. When it came to be time to go home I had to track him down by phone to find out WHEN he was coming to pick us up and take us home!! Then when he finally got there he never thought to take a single picture of me with my newborn baby girl before we left so I took them myself. I think allot of times we as Women are left holding the bag. Having to do things ourselves for ourselves. Pretty sad!!
Now that is just WRONG... is he that inattentive always?
And also, I was born in Clarion Iowa and lived there my first 4 years. My Mom grew up there and dad did for a bit too. When I was in college, mom moved back for a year and my brothers attended HS for one year... So, on thsi forum, to see someone from pretty small Clarion Iowa is WEIRD!
Just curious how old you are and if you might know some of my family!
Melissa
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