Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | How "IBS understanding" is your spouse?

At this moment, I'm about to burst, not from IBS but from my spouse and his non-acceptance of me feeling awful! I'm asleep on the couch, feeling like death and he barges in the door and asks what's for dinner! Ack! You gotta be kidding, I don't even want to look at food!

And then, later this evening, as I'm feeling a little better than death, he asks me to help him carry some plywood into the garage. I'm really not that strong, and 4x8 sheets of plywood - mosting 1/2 and 3/4 inch thick - are NOT LIGHT! Then he gets frustrated with me because I can't lift up my end, not to mention trying to maneuver around all the CRAP he has strewn about in the garage. And to top it off, we had to carry some of it upstairs in the garage, around a corner and up the stairs. Gimme a break, I get winded just going up the stairs, not to mention carrying plywood! Ack again!

Whew, guess I just needed to vent. Sometimes he can be Mr. Almost Perfect and then there's today!

How understanding are your significant others? Is everyone else as weak and scrawny as me? Ugh, of all the years I wished to be thin. I'd rather have some meat on me and feel better!

Thanks for allowing me to vent. That really helps.

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