In support of men

Thank you all for your comments. It is three steps forward and two back, but we will survive. I am glad I could start a cheerful thread.

I also have a wonderful husband. We have been married for 43 years, raised 2 dear children and weathered many storms together. I am truly blessed.
Here's to our lovely OH. ???

No, it does appear that this is the old Gn that I know and love, so pleasant to see that there are some valued husbands/partners out there, i can feel the love. I hope your other half recovers soon Tiz, I'm sure he will look after you as soon as he can.

Here here!

I'll join in gladly , my OH is also brilliant at doing his share of everything around here too. Whoever cooks the other clears away or loads the dishwasher, he will always run errands that I can't be bothered with. He'll hoover, dust and load the washer shop or cook just one tiny flaw is that I usually have to 'mention' that this or that needs doing but I can live with that. He's my best friend and we laugh a lot over stupid things I can't imagine life without him by my side. All our grandchildren love him to bits even though he is step-grandad to them all and my own children think the World of him as step-dad. I'm just very glad that we met and fell in love.

My mum once said that if she could have found a pattern to knit the perfect son in law, she'd have made my DH.
He doesn't have a romantic bone in his body, but he has everything else!
He does most of the vacuuming, polishing and tidying (but his ironing skills are non existent), I don't need an electric dishwasher, I feed him, and he washes up!
He's a wonderful dad to our DS and now has a new lease of life due to our 20 week old DGS. In fact he's out in his shed now, building a wooden ride-on train!
He's the most patient man I've ever met, and as I could try the patience of a saint, I really appreciate that part of his nature!
Most of all though, he makes me laugh, we're giggling our way through life! It's way too short to be taken seriously!

I hope you DH gets better soon, Tizliz and welcome this positive thread.

My OH is a poor patient but wonderful in (almost) every other way.
He is the opposite of me in character but very hands on with anything that needs doing, except cooking. I also notice all he does when he's away!

So....in praise of good men!!

Men are sometimes maligned in the world of advertising it seems acceptable to portray them as lazy or daft maybe to address the balance of yesteryear when women were shown in a sexist way. Two wrongs don't make a right. I'm lucky to have married a man who certainly does his fair share around our house, unlike my father who did very little to help my mother with domestic chores.

Bella

dte if DP has an available older brother kindly send him my way.

Downtoearth you have a good man there, what great team work from the two of you.
I don't tell my husband often enough how much I care. He looks after me so well and we share our lives so easily. Of course we have our spats but as I am always right there is no real problem.
Seriously I do get a bit tired of hearing all the so called feminists constantly deriding men.

My DH also used to do so many things for me, many of which I took for granted. Like KatyK says, I have no idea how he put up with me for 36 years. He lived for his family and always tried to make everyone happy. Since his death, almost two years ago, I have realised just what a lot he took on his shoulders which I am now having to do for myself.

If you've got a loving DH, appreciate him before it's too late, nobody is perfect and we all have our annoying habits, but life without my DH has lost its sparkle.

OMG, have I stumbled into a parallel universe GN where men are appreciated ?

I do feel a fraud ATM, MrsP is having to do most things for me, along with a knackered hip I now have a frozen (or rotor cuff) shoulder and cannot lift anything with my left arm.

I too have a husband that is very much appreciated. He does all the cooking (currently in the kitchen making soup for lunch), drives everywhere even though I am capable and should do my share, does loads around the house, in fact he cannot sit for long. He has prostrate cancer and is undergoing hormone treatment and had radiotherapy last year, and has never once complained or felt sorry for himself. I am so lucky to have him.

Sorry for rattling on there are a lot of lovely men out there

Last year he was very unwell with depression and with medication he has fought his way back and supported me for 10 years with anxiety and depression also

We may not be married or everyone's idea of a perfect union..but what better way to demonstrate in sickness and health with out the vows

An unsung hero in my eyes...I always get tea in bed in the morning and help in the house as well

I have a salt of the earth partner....much younger than me he was with me shortly after getting together, when my daughter aged 23 died in suspicious circumstances,he welcomed my 4year old granddaughter,supported my shattered family and has bought E up as his own ( he dosent have children)..life for us has meant financial hardship due to this,he cared and supported me with mum during this time also until she died...he works 6 days a week to support us E is nearly 18..he is my friend and soul mate I love him dearly ..he is 20 years younger than me

Even though Grampy was one lambs leg away from an early demise- I value him endlessly. He does a great deal around our home, we are most definitely equal partners( although I am the Captain of the ship!)

I don't want to find out any time soon what life would be like without him . 40 years together is just the beginning x

A good man is one of lifes blessings and i am so blessed.Tizliz hope you have had time for &

I hope he gets better soon. My DH is a saint. How he puts up with me I'll never know. I am moody, miserable and anxious all the time. I have a 'poor me' attitude to life. He has had cancer, has diabetes, high cholesterol and high BP. I have never once heard him complain. I do appreciate him.

I am very lucky apart from his loud coughs and sneezes DH is a lovely and had been great through my recent health scare. he does all the ironing, the hovering and 'heavy' housework, the gardening and decorating but does not cook. We have sorted out the division of labour over the years but it seems he is now doing far more than I am. Just recently two women of my acquaintance (1 widowed 1 divorced) went into an 'all men are b*****ds rant' in my presence and I spoke up loudly that this is definitely not the case.

Tizliz if we are lucky enough to have good supportive DH's then we miss them very much when they are incapacitated in any way.
Hope he gets well soon.
Men find being confined to quarters with illness / accident very galling and do protest a lot.

Yes, Alima I do have to grit my teeth sometimes, I know he is in pain but does he need to tell me so often.