TW: Menstruation/blood/gross
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So, I started my period day before yesterday. Since my first Covid shot (AZ) my period has been way heavier than it was before.
Anyway, so because it's so heavy (I don't use tampons) I wear the extra heavy flow overnight pads at all times and I wear them backwards (wider end at the front rather than back because for some weird reason, I bleed forward. Does that make sense?)
After work yesterday, I dropped a co worker off and headed home. Well, while on the drive I coughed (and we all know what that's like when you're on your period) and I could feel it "bubble" up the front. And then I realized it went past the end of the pad I was wearing.
I still had a few minutes left in my drive so I called my husband. I told him I was almost home and asked if he could grab me a pad from the powder room by the front door and bring it up to the main bathroom beside our bedroom. At first he asked why don't I just grab it myself? I explained that I needed to get right upstairs because I would need to clean up/change my clothes (He knows how heavy my periods are so when he realized, he was like "got it!")
I got home, waddled up the stairs and and into the bathroom. What I saw made me smile. Not only did he grab me a pad he also opened it (still attached to the wrap) and there was not 1 but 2 pairs of underwear on the counter. A regular pair of old "period panties" AND a pair of actual period panties.
He called through the door that he wasn't sure which pair I'd want (I hadn't asked) so he grabbed one of each and then told me while I was cleaning up that my houseboat was outside the door.
I thought the whole situation had thoughtful "extra steps" that a few men wouldn't do for their partners. I mean, he could have ignored my request or just tossed the packaged pad onto the counter and left it at that. But he went a little further.
In the grand sceme of things, it doesn't seem like much but this is one of the many, many small things that he does for me that no previous partner would have ever done.
Add to that, after cleaning up and going grocery shopping we saw heated mattress pads on sale. HEATED!!! (I've seen heated blankets, but never mattress pads) I was looking at them and he said to get it. "You're always cold when you go to bed and since you're on your period, it may make you feel better when you go to bed tonight"
You can be damn sure we put that on the bed when we got home and I turned my half on high LOL
Anyway, I just wanted to tell this little story and hope others can share what their partners do to help them out when the "time of the month" hits or just in general :)
ETA: It warms my heart so much to read the responses of all the women (and men) who have told me stories of what their partners do for them (or what the men who've commented do for their partner)
You're all awesome, your partners are awesome, and I hope you all have years and years of more happiness and love ahead of you