Men and illness

Ha! I agree with you! The one good thing about my guy when he is sick, is that usually he will work through it, come home, then crash and ask to be babied. I dont mind it so much but I wish he would recognize that the world doesn't stop when I'm sick!! Alot of guys I know are like this too.

Our husbands/boyfriends must be the same because mine does this to a T. He whines more than my five year old does and even gets upset when I don't do anything to help him especially if it is a cold or a headache. Hello, get some medicine on the fridge (where we keep it) and it will fix it LOL Sometimes I feel like I have two children!!

Ok, I'll let you get away with that statement because it's true! We are not patient patients are we and yes it's the end of the world when we are sick and we need a 24/7 day and night nurse, someone to hear us moan and groan and we are like little boys who need lots of tlc and nursemaiding and no one else suffers like we do. My ex was terrible, grumpy, grouchy, we had all the seven dwarfs with him lol and he was good at playing the dying swan routine

I've not noticed this. I've noticed a slightly higher propensity for complaining from female friends and family members when they are ill. I've noticed men try to shrug off illness and continue as they were (including myself). And personally, I'm content to take care of myself when ill.

I think that most men will battle on for a bit, but if things get worse then they will succumb in a big way, Unless you are married to them that is! My homespun philosophy is that it is all down to women. Women can withstand pain better (all that child birth stuff) and pamper their little boys so that when we grow up we want Mum, or our lovely partner, to kiss us and make us better. We play on that until we get the attention that we deserve (I mean are seeking). As I said homespun. I think that there are women like this too. I had 49 working for me and given half a chance some of them would hit me with "women's problems" and nip off. By the way my wide circle of male friends fight on through to, right to the point where they give up and need their TLC! I think that there is something in some of our US cousins' tea today, I got shot down earlier and I see that someone has taken against you in this discussion.

It is hard for me to do this because i get sick 1 every 5 years (thanks to god), but anyway when i get sick; yes i act like your husband or boyfriend. why we act this way? I think it is because we feel so good when we get all the attention from our wife or girlfriend, we like that, feel like babies, fell like we will die if you girls don't care about us, practically we try to get all the attention, and when we have it we feel good inside and with ourself. It's like when we do something bad (forget birthday for example)and you girls are mad at us. You want us to feel sorry, you want us to go and say "i sorry baby, i know it was my bad but here is your present, i want you to know that i love you and i gonna do it forever,no matter what happen, so please forgive me". When you hear us saying stuff like that I know you girls feel good inside, it is almost the same feeling we have when we are babied for you.