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Does your DH do this? (And Niq, do you do this to your W?)
So, I was making dinner last night, and slicing up some carrots for fried rice. I was using our new Shun slicer, because it's awesome. It may have been a bit too much for the job, but I wanted to use it. Well, it slipped out of my hand, and as it fell to the floor, it cut my thumb. Not badly, but I bled a significant amount, and it wasn't fun, and it's kinda painful.
Anyway, DH calls while at the store, and I mention that I cut myself. He asks if I'm okay, I say yes, and he sighs either in exasperation or relief, I can't tell. We finish our conversation and we hang up.
He comes home, and I'm expecting him to be sympathetic (you know, "poor baby, let me see, here, let me kiss it," etc.) Instead, he goes into a full-blown lecture about how that knife isn't for chopping vegetables, but for slicing meats and stuff. I tell him how I already felt dumb enough, I don't need him to tell me that I was using the wrong knife - I need him to kiss it better and give me a hug. So he kisses it, and hugs me half-heartedly. Then goes on for another 5 minutes about knife usage.
Really, DH? Come on. You better not do this when M starts hurting herself.
ETA: I do realize this makes me sound whiny, but I just wanted a little sympathy! LOL
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Re: Does your DH do this? (And Niq, do you do this to your W?)
H doesn't lecture me but he isn't that sympathetic. When I am sick, I always just want him to baby me but he doesn't.. I don't hold it against him though, I've always known. And I really do need to suck it up, because I'm a whiner.
On the other hand, I dno't have children, but I do know that if my husband isn't sympathetic to our children when they hurt themselves, that is something I'll argue about!
I'm sorry you cut yourself!!! I hope it heals quickly and stops hurting!
this!
James would make sure I was okay AND lecture me probably. He's more sympathetic if he is there when I get hurt.
I hope your cut feels better.
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there would definitely be no sympathy from my h--and even if i asked him to kiss it, he would just lecture me more about how that's not going to change anything, or that crying doesn't help.... and lots and lots of lectures.
hope your owie feels better soon.
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DH would probably laugh at me and tease me about wanting to use a fancing knife and being clumsy and cutting myself. Then he'd try to hug and kiss me and I'd pissed off about the teasing and say, "Get away from me, fuckface."
If DH cut himself, I would probably lecture him
and then make sure his found was washed and bandaged up. Actually, probably the other way around: I'd bandage it up and make sure he was OK, then lecture him.
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Haha, my DH is like this, too. Sometimes he can be too sympathetic! (Hint: If I'm irritated with myself and angry about it, it is not the best time for 'aww, poor baby', hahaha)
... :X I'm more likely to do the lecturing. Of course, I always make sure he was all bandaged up and kiss it, but he would get the, "Please be more careful; don't hurt you" lecture. Again.
I might be in the minority here.....
DH wouldn't really be sympathetic, but I also wouldn't expect him to be (unless I cut myself badly enough to need stitches or something). I think he'd care...but I don't think I would make a big deal out of it myself.
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