Oh no nothing like that at all! My husband is really loving and caring. He knows how I hate needles and he doesn't think checking all the time is a good idea or necessary that's all. He doesn't want me to be obsessed with testing and worry all the time about bg..
@Red_river_ - Obviously, you have to decide how you interact with your loved ones, and whose influence you allow to sway you, against contrarian views, however, one thing I will say is when I was diagnosed I was always going to be self-testing, because I saw it as the only way I really had a clue what might be going on, but then again, there are and have been a number of my family diagnosed as having diabetes, of just about all shades, at one time or another.
My OH found my diagnosis particularly tricky to get his head around, as I had been picked up as a result of a bizarre set of circumstances I'll spare you the detail of. I certainly didn't have nay symptoms.
Aside from giving me real time, personal feedback on my own condition (and the ability to track my improvements along the way), I got from self testing, it very quickly helped my PH to accept my diagnosis and buy into the changes my meterer informed me I need to make to my apparently already healthy eating regime.
As soon as I was able to demonstrate to him that testing was giving me diabetic style numbers from some foods, he suddenly engaged that self-testing was an incredibly important tool to me, and something to be embraced, rather than the uncomfortable inconvenience he originally viewed it as.
@wiflib - My interpretation of Red_River_'s husband's stance as more one of not appreciating the value of the feedback, rather than anything potentially cruel or totally out of order.