Question by Jack, Man Candy for Mephisto: I’m sick and my wife is being really mean to me! How can I get her to be more sympathetic?
I have had a cold since this weekend, and my wife isn’t the slightest bit sympathetic! Here I am, suffering awful, and she acts like it’s no big deal. She just has left me piled up under blankets in the bedroom and gone off like I don’t need her. She can take care of our kids, but she won’t even sit with me to keep me company, even though she knows I feel lousy.
She says that she and the kids also had colds, but I don’t think that can be true, because they just went on like it was nothing, except for some minor sniffles. At the very least they can’t have had it as bad as me; she took my temperature and it said 99.1°, nearly 100!!! Here I am, burning up with fever, and I’m getting ignored.
I told her how I was having chills, and she told me to get up and put on some pants, just so uncaring, like, “put on some pants, don’t bother me.” I feel totally unloved right now. Yesterday she brought me a bowl of chicken soup for lunch and I said I wanted sausage and beer, but she just said, “A person at death’s door like you is MUCH too sick for that”; I know she was just being mean. She didn’t even try to fluff my pillows up or feel my forehead, or anything! She just went out of the room, dragging our four-year-old along, off to see what one of the other kids was crying about.
Last night she really made me mad! She was in the bathroom, scrubbing the shower, when I came in to take a leak. She looked at me for a minute and said, “Do you need me to hold your weiner to aim it, or have you recovered from your horrible illness enough so you can manage it on your own?” At first I thought she was wanting to get frisky, but then it dawned on me she was making fun of me! Why is she being so darned mean???
She says that if I am well enough to lay in bed messing with the laptop I’m really not sick. She says she and the kids only had minor colds and now they are gone, that the only thing I have is “man flu”, and there isn’t any cure for that. Maybe the kids recovered because she showed a little caring for them! How can I get her to act like a proper wife towards me?
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Answer by evaohell
I note that your name has “Happy Alcholoic” in it. Maybe you should stop drinking and man up.
On a side note, your wife sounds awesome!
Give your answer to this question below!
“I said I wanted sausage and beer”
in your case, don’t you drink the beer FIRST then get yourself some of that “sausage” you wanted???
It seems like you’re not doing enough to prove you are sick. Perhaps you should get a microscope, take a specimen from your nasal passage, and examine it under the microscope until you find and identify (you may need to go to the library for reference material) the virus or bacteria that is causing your illness. Furthermore, you should keep a record of all of your symptoms, their severity, the time the symptoms occur, and their duration. Build a good, solid case for yourself based on factual findings and recorded data, and present it to her while whimpering and moaning a lot. If all else fails, pretend to be lethargic, or act like you’re having a seizure. Perhaps you can gently hit your head on some furniture while pretending to convulse in front of her.
You poor thing. How horrible of your wife to make sure you kids are taken care of even when she is sick too. She is such a horrible witch for making you chicken soup and taking that low-grade temp for you. How dare her make fun of you while she is on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor of your bathroom.
Get better and re-read this post. I sure hope you will see how ridiculous you are being.
Be a man not a crybaby. When I have a cold, I don’t lie around in bed. I take care of myself and continue my life like normal. I don’t need my wife to baby me.
First, a 100′ temp is not a fever. You need to get up and go to work.
I have the same temp – with pneumonia and I am going to work later – I start at 4pm.
Get up – you are not nearly at death’s door.
It’s simple. She’s probably felt similar, but has managed to still take care of the family while she is sick. She is still responsible for taking care of the kids (especially while you’re down), so she thinks it’s unreasonable for you to want extra attention knowing she’s busier than normal. She may cater to you a little more if you take an initiave to get somethings for yourself while you’re sick. As a matter of fact, she may tell you to lay down and start pampering you. Stop whining. It’s annoying to her.
One of the more amusing posts I’ve read recently on M&D, and the subtle jab at the BS questions that flood M&D is awesome.
I’m not sure why your wife is acting like that…but maybe you should go visit your mother or brother and take a long visit to the doctor’s office to get away from all that negatively. I’ve been in a relationship like that before, and you just have to deal with the lack of compassion at time….it sounds like she sees your sickness as a burden, so if I were you, I would drive myself to the doctor (maybe see a movie afterwards) and leave the bitch with the kids
Wow, quit being a freakin baby and man up! Ugh, I hate that guys are worse than kids when it comes to being sick. You’re grown, you can take care of yourself! You don’t need her to effin fluff your pillows! She brought you soup, I’m sure she’d take you to the hospital if you got really sick. I feel sorry for her, she has to put up with your pansy ass!
Oh and proper wife? What exactly is a proper wife? Someone who has to wait on you 24/7? Maybe she’s being so “mean” beause you’re acting like such a baby and she thinks you’re faking it!
Next time you throw up on her, point out that if she were at the foot of the bed rubbing your feet like you asked her to, she’d have been too far away for you to puke on.
You poor ol’ thing. I bet if you died & proved that you are sick, she’d believe you. Try it, that’ll learn her.