AIO about my fiancee (29F) getting mad at me (29M) when sick?

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I began to feel really sick a few days ago and my wife grew irritated with me. I stayed on the couch and just didn’t feel well. I would ask her if she would bring me water, etc. She ended up becoming extremely annoyed with me, and I got the sense she just didn’t believe I was sick. She told me she was really excited to have a day with me and now she can’t because I’m sick, so she’s probably going to go out with a friend. Overall, she made me feel very bad. She says she realized she was probably being mean to me, so she left for the gym. I ended up having a really nasty virus and had a high fever when she came back. She was pretty nice to me now, and I told her how she made me feel pretty bad, and she defended herself by explaining how I’m such an awful sick person. I told her I actually tried very hard to not be awful and I just asked for a few things and tried to stayed out of her way.

This is a pretty normal thing. Back in the pandemic, she got very mad at me when I caught Covid, because I had cold chills and I would cover up during them. She would get frustrated because she told me I was making my fever worse by bundling up and I needed to take the blankets off. However, I just kept bundling up and she got pretty angry about it. Stuff like this happens just about every time I get sick. When talking to other people, she will complain about how much of an awful sick person I am, and it’s so hard to just sit there and take that when I actually think I do just fine as a sick person, and that I just think she’s a bad caretaker.

When she is sick, I absolutely out of my way to care for her. I do everything for her. She got sick during a major family holiday and I ended up canceling just so i could properly care for her, and lied to her about how my family reacted just so she wouldn’t feel bad. I don’t laud this over her but I really want to, because it just doesn’t feel fair to me.

Posted Jan 11, 2026, 8:15 PM UTC

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