I don't know.... I'm not sure sometimes I wouldn't prefer the whiny baby man.
I have the kind that would hack off his arm and just keep on going.
My husband has MS, severe allergies..and had bronchitis for 3 months and was still out in the cold every day siding our new goat barn. The problem? He wants me right there beside him siding that barn no matter how I feel! No I can power through a lot of stuff, I have multiple autoimmune disorders, arthritis, fibromyalgia etc and I know life has to just keep on going. However, I just can't stand the guilt.
I mean, just think you could have the type of guy to come in with pneumonia and say "nah, they'll just throw some antibiotics at me, then I'll be able to head right back out and get that fence on the north west pasture done. You'll be able to get out there and help me put those posts in right?" All the while you can see that he needs his inhaler, or the ER or something...and you've just taken whatever pain killing drugs your allowed?
Yup, give me a whiny baby man who just wants a cup of hot chocolate any day over a man who'll guilt me into pounding posts in 40 degree rainy weather while he takes antibiotics to stay out of the ER, and you'd like to find some tall Swede to work the kinks out of your back.
Laney