Illness

Before I go on this particular rant you need to understand that normally I am a very patient person and have a lot of time for people. 

That is of course unless they become ill and in particular that they are ill and a man.  I'm not talking serious illness and some of my friends and acquaintances in life have or have been seriously ill and I have sympathy for them all. However, when it comes to a cough and a cold then I'm sorry guys but for gawd sake "Man Up".  You mop about like the world has come to an end and it drives us women up the wall and there really is no need for it.  

I have a few single male friends, and so this rant isn't really about this type of man but the ones that are living with their girlfriends/wife and in particular, I suppose, my husband.  Now he is not normally ill but when he is the whole blinking world has to know about it.  Today, he has a slight temperature and is complaining that he is cold and ill and doing this pathetic cough which I used to put on as a child to get sympathy from my mum when I was trying to fake time off school.  It doesn't wash for me.  I just can't be all motherly when if it was me that had a slight temperature and was feeling cold would still be expected to do everything when you have children and a household to run.  So I just get on with it.  Don't be under the delusion that I do this with a smile on my face CAUSE I DON'T.  I complain about it, moan and groan but at the end of the day I still get on with it.  

In case you all think I'm a heartless cow I do look after my husband very well and put his needs and the needs of our children first as most mothers and wife's do in life. 

Rant over.