I’ve never known anyone track their periods

I track mine now I’m in menopause. The only time I didn’t was when I was on contraception that pre determined when my periods would be

I did when I was trying to get pregnant, did the thing with tracking g my morning temperature an everything. Also in peri and did track for a spell last year just to try and identify if there was any kind of pattern at all to when I could expect my period these days. Have gone from olid 28 day cycle to every erratic cycle anything from 3 to 5 weeks. Often can tell when I ovulate but got caught out on holiday recently after having had a run of regular ish monthly cycles the last one was less than 3 weeks.....why won't they just stop!!🙄

Sounds like your partner has no idea of the range of symptoms experienced. Wouldn't he like to know which days in the month he would be bleeding, have diarrhoea, feel overly hot, understand why they feel so snappy, want to curl in a ball and scream?

I know they have all those inspiring ads about not letting your period stop you from being a strong woman {sigh} but I like to know that I won't be doing anything at least physically strenuous when I am in my first day heavily bleeding out the wazoo.

I track mine and have for a few years. First started it when I was trying to get
pregnant and now I do it as I’m nearly at perimenopause age and also because I have PMDD- I like to know in advance where possible, when I’m due to lose my fucking mind.

Your DP’s opinion is so unimportant regarding this. I don’t know why they’d bother to voice it.

Despite having regular periods, until I started tracking just over a decade ago. I would regularly be caught by surprise by my period (despite getting emotional over running out of butter and such trivial things in the days before). I absolutely track now.

When I was 11 I used to put a red dot in my homework diary to log when my next period was due

When I tried to conceive I tracked my periods in more detail and was very fortunate to conceive very quickly.

started tracking mine late 30s as I got horrendous pain and heavy bleeding. Would dread my cycle every month.

On track mine, they are all over the place but it’s handy to know when it may make an appearance if I have a holiday etc booked.

I only tracked mine when I was trying to fall pregnant. I don't really have a need to now. It's not weird though.

Oh, DP, are you not tracking your periods?
Of course not, I don't have periods
Well, there you are, you are tracking them to know you don't have them. You'd track them more closely if you had them 🥰

It is completely standard to track periods. It’s obviously expected too, because if you go to the GP for as much as an ear ache and you are female their first question is “when was your last period?”

I've tracked mine since they got heavier in my mid twenties. So over twenty years 😄

Tracked mine since my teens and I’m 41 now it’s very normal

We’ve really got to stop listening to men’s opinions about our own bodies. Of course it’s not weird OP. There is a reason the functions exists. I also track it as I’m Peri and it’s all over the place

I track mine with the IPhone health app. It’s got a period tracker function which should tell you how common it is!

If you don’t track, how do you have any idea when it’s due? Every period would be a surprise.

I don’t track symptoms because I don’t really have any.

I've always tracked mine one way or another. When I started my periods at 12, my mum gave me calendar and told me to write a P inside a circle on the days that I bleed. When I asked why, she said it would come in handy for various different reasons. I did that for about 20 years, and for the last 9 years I've tracked them via a phone app.

Urgh. What gives a middle-aged man the qualifications or experience to decide that period-tracking is weird? And why do we allow them to make us doubt our perfectly normal behaviour? Bloody men.

Does your husband have or has he ever experienced a menstrual cycle? No? His opinion is as useful as a dry mop.

I thought all women did?
Note on a calendar from age 11 to age 52 even though it was 28 days every time.

Even stoneage women were tracking their cycles I reckon. There are tally marks on cave walls and the academics say maybe they were tracking lunar cycles… no we all know what they were tracking!

I tracked my whole menstrual life from the first to the last (diary to Fitbit app).

Your DP is a knob.

I've tracked mine for over 20 years. They are so erratic that I built a spreadsheet that runs a Monte Carlo analysis that shows me a six-month lookahead of the likelihood of a period arriving on a particular day. Does that count?

Seriously though, your DP is a knob. Of course women track their periods!

Not sure why your DP thinks it’s something he should have an opinion on? He doesn’t get periods so why would he know or care about you tracking your cycle?

This. also making sure there were enough tampons in the house (I date from before moon cups and period pants) I mean is your husband that dumb. How would you know you were late and do a test if you didn't track them?
edit: I come from the days when you got the pill prescribed from a family planning clinic and every time I went for a prescription, they always asked me D.O.L.P.

Literally everyone does this 🤷‍♀️