To have asked DH to buy my youknows?

[FrankieDobie]

Is it unreasonable able to ask a man to buy youknows when they are going out to the shop anyway? It’s not an extra trip, to buy whilst already there?

When he buys the youknows and brings them home, are they hidden from sight immediately

This has just reminded me of that Judy Blume book - the Margaret one I think - where she and a friend went to but sanitary towels but nearly chickened out as there was a young man on the till.

Then afterwards, when the purchase went through unremarkably, mused something like ‘you’d have thought he sold this kind of thing every day’ 😂

Come on, you can at least say the words.

You want him to buy pads/tampons because you're on your period, right? The world won't crash and burn because a woman has mentioned periods. Christ.

My DP wouldn't even blink (although he would probably have to phone me to ask which ones I wanted!)

@Macncheeseballs

When he buys the youknows and brings them home, are they hidden from sight immediately

I went to a friends house once, got caught out and asked if she had any "youknows" and she went into her bedroom and right at the back of the drawer were her "youknows"! How ridiculous, they're used in the toilet and can be stored there

In a basket in bathroom on permanent display in our house

I'm shocked at an adult behaving like having a period is something to be ashamed of or be hidden. I feel like I'm in a time machine. Don't even want to ask what you call sex.

DH Does for me all the time knows exactly what I need.

They’re sanitary towels. Or tampons. You can say the words.

Your DH should obviously buy them for you if he’s already at the shops or as part of a general shop. Hell, my DH would go out and buy them for me without buying anything else if I needed him to.

Get a better partner.

well I just asked DH what he would buy if I asked him to get me 'youknows', he said he would assume I was talking in code so that thieving buggers dont understand and buy me the turkish delight that I love and hide from everyone else so I dont have to share it

My husband always bought me them, been together since the 80s.

Good grief! YABU for calling sanitary products by this creepy, infantile code name, especially in 2021.

Of course DH would buy sanitary products. He's an adult!

I think this normal in, you know, 2021.

My 87 year old Dad bought me some when I was

Oops!

My 87 Dad bought me some after I was immobile after emergency surgery.

It's normal.

Yabu to call them you knows.

what are the disadvantages of this site?

😂 My DH goes to the shop with DSD to buy her pads when she needs them and transfers her money to buy them when her mum has forgotten 🙄 No biggie.

Are you both 12?

in all my relationships the men were ok with buying tampons pads and at the time maternity pads. My partner now would buy them but I don't need them now but he will buy lube thrush pessaries etc

Leave Op alone! My aunty used to say are you on your whatnots!! People call different things by different names (whatever is comfortable and has been passed on) in my house it's period's and pads! (I can't use tampons & my dds aged 9 & 11 aren't ready for then. We have an respctfully open house. My DD'S have no problem in telling my DH that they have cramps or have came on. My dh is an adult man, I'd be concerned if he didn't know what we as women needed. However, now that there are 3 of us having periods I buy pads weekly and we have a storage box on the bathroom shelf and a full storage box in the cabinet so we never run out.

TurnipTales

My partner calls tampons cunt plugs.“

A bard amongst men. Lovely.

Ok, the word choice aside (my 3 year old knows the words tampons, sanitary towels and periods) it’s not wrong to ask a bloke to buy some.
My husband will happily buy supplies for me if he’s out and thinks of it. Without being asked. Would you believe it OP but he even knows which brand/what packet and if I have wings or super jumbo.

@diddl

Was this all to get a reaction to "youknows" then?

Op never did say how her husband reacted.

A furious reaction from Mumsnetters of course. Because it is so very unfeminist of OP.

Surely the OP can call her sanitary protection whatever she wants to call it? Do you all say TV remote and never buttons/zapper/doofer etc? Do you all say sexual intercourse and never shag/fuck/nookie etc? Talk about dictating what someone else has to say, the outrage is ridiculous!