Is He An A*Hole For Tell His Hypochondriac He Can No Longer Do This?

His husband is an out-of-control hypochondriac. He goes to the hospital for EVERYTHING, and he’s over it. Is he wrong for telling his husband he can no longer do this?

Here’s his email:

Hi Bert Show,

My husband and I have been married for a little over a year now. He is the greatest thing that has ever happened to me and I am so excited for our future. However, he is a major hypochondriac. Every minor thing that he feels, he automatically thinks he is dying. If he gets a cold, he’s probably dying and we need to go to the hospital. He is constantly checking his pulse and thinking he’s having a heart attack. We’ve been to the hospital way more than I can count. Just in the past two months, there have been four hospital visits, the fifth one almost being tonight. This is when I finally put my foot down. I have been trying to work on OUR credit so we can look at buying a house. All of his hospital bills automatically go into the trash (which I later fish out and have put in my lock box of important documents). It is already hurting his credit, as some accounts have already gone into collections. Also, hospital trips are expensive!!!

Am I the A-hole for telling him we will NOT be making any more hospital trips unless there is a broken bone or a lot of blood? I even had a minor heart attack last month and didn’t go to the hospital. I brushed it off and made a doctor appointment, not really thinking anything of it. That is how I was raised. Is it wrong of me to tell him that the hospital is not a free-for-all?

Thanks in advance.