Ok so I’m not feeling too good at the moment so this could be me being petty…
I have what is either the stomach flu or the general flu. My body aches, I have zero energy & I’ve been sick.
Luckily my mum had my 2 kids yesterday after school & today too on an inset day because, she could see how bad I was. She’s given them dinner, brought them home before bed time so I’m not struggling on my own.
My husband has seen me crying in pain, on the bathroom floor throwing up. I was up twice in the night with the kids and up at 5am with one of them, he slept right through even when I nudged him for help. When asked he made them some packed lunches for today, and when I asked him to help them get ready this morning he said “I’m exhausted”. The audacity to ask what I had made for dinner last night when I couldn’t get off the sofa so I bought him dinner. He left work at about 7:30 this morning & despite leaving me in bed crying in pain he hasn’t text to see how the kids are at my mums or how I am & won’t make any effort to help out with the kids knowing full well how ill I am. It would take less than a minute to send a text.
Am I right to be annoyed and upset? Am I just being silly?
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You've got all right to be annoyed. You're supposed to be a team! The other way around you would be there for him too. You should communicate this without blaming. Just share how you feel. Hope you feel better soon!

I'd be super direct with my husband. When the alarm went off I'd say "I was up sick all night and need to stay in bed. I need you to cover. XYZ are the kids commitments today". If he needed to take a day off to do so, that's what sick/vacation days are for.

No you’re not being silly, it’s not the least bit unreasonable to assume that your partner would be capable of taking care of the family & home while you’re unable to do so, it’s kinda common sense that the more you can rest & rehab the quicker it’s gonna get back to both adults running things together. My hubs would be absolutely livid if I were sick & he & the kids hadn’t caught it & I was running around contaminating the entire household & packing their lunches for school, potentially spreading that virus to our child’s classmates & putting this on even more households. He’d tell me to quarantine myself in our room & proceed to keep the kids as far away as possible, then come in to check on me, talk me into eating & drinking fluids periodically & spray everything down w/our alcohol spray, just like I do when he’s sick, this way we can possibly manage to keep the viral load down as much as possible, so, if/when they do get sick it might not be as severe.
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