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AIBU?

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Is DS's new GF a CF or AIBU?

325 replies

Toolittl · 21/08/2023 11:32

Adult DS 25 still lives at home. DH and I go away every weekend in our caravan and so his newish GF 26 and also still lives at home (who I have yet to meet in person) comes and stays with him which I'm absolutely fine with she lives 3hr drive away. The last 2 weeks we've come home and she's left used panty liners both in the bathroom bin and in DS's wastepaper bin in bedroom.
I don't know how to broach it with him. He will take it that I don't like her without meeting her etc. It's not like she's a young kid at 26, personally I would either empty both bins before I left or pop them in my wash bag to take home with me. I left the caddy bags out as a hint this weekend. I would be mortified to think someone else would see something so intimate and for context they're not wrapped back up in their packet either.
Opinions?

OP posts:
Naunet · 21/08/2023 16:11

DoraSpenlow · 21/08/2023 15:10

@LordEmsworth

Yes, vaginal secretions are bodily fluids. So is mucus, but for some reason, no one is saying she should be equally ashamed of blowing her nose and putting the tissue in the bin. Why is that, I wonder...

Because snot doesn't start to smell in hot weather.

Why would they start to smell? Are you confusing pantyliners with sanitary towels?

Luxell934 · 21/08/2023 16:13

Most panty liners don’t have packaging to wrap them up in though, she could wrap with tissue but since she put them straight into a bin with a liner and a lid maybe she thought wrapping them in toilet paper was unnecessary. She obviously didn’t think you’d be inspecting the bid that closely?

I think you should ask your son to change the bins before you return.

AliceOlive · 21/08/2023 16:13

I absolutely advocate not leaving tissues with snot on them in the bin such that the snot is visible. And I am going to think anyone that does this constantly is gross.

Naunet · 21/08/2023 16:15

AliceOlive · 21/08/2023 16:10

Do you also advocate that men stop flushing the toilet so the next person can see their bodily fluids, too?

Stop wiping their pee off the seat?

Leaving used tissues laying about?

Teaching people to having consideration for others is not shaming them!

How much bodily fluid do you think is on a pantyliner? They’re not sanitary towels. How fragile are you that you can’t handle seeing a tiny bit of discharge and feel the need to shame women for it?

Fuckthatguy · 21/08/2023 16:17

Christ sake nobody is shaming anyone for having bodily functions.

Hotels/aeroplanes/public restrooms all have sanpro bags, there is a clue there for those of you thinking this is perfectly acceptable, at a minimum due to politeness / etiquette / whatever, for the sake of the poor host, who this GF hasn’t even met, she should wrap it in something.

Snorts, at the jizzy condom, again, that’s gross.

Naunet · 21/08/2023 16:17

Ok so how many have had a word with someone about leaving tissues IN THE BIN, but not screwed up enough to hide that a human has used them?

Cosyblankets · 21/08/2023 16:26

If someone came for lunch and put one in the bin would you expect them to empty the bin?
She's his guest.
If anyone should be emptying bins it's him.
Don't go in his room. He's an adult. He can put his own washing away and empty his own bin.

Fuckthatguy · 21/08/2023 16:29

Oh, forgot about hospitals having separate bins for clinical waste.

LuckySantangelo35 · 21/08/2023 16:31

Naunet · 21/08/2023 16:08

Great, let’s continue to shame women for their PERFECTLY NORMAL biology 🙄

@Naunet

its not shaming a woman’s biology to not want to see her discharge , ffs

Onelifeonly · 21/08/2023 16:31

YABU. Having said that, I would never have left mine on show like that, even in my own home. But young people these days don't seem bothered. My dds aren't and rarely use the bags I provide.

AliceOlive · 21/08/2023 16:33

Naunet · 21/08/2023 16:15

How much bodily fluid do you think is on a pantyliner? They’re not sanitary towels. How fragile are you that you can’t handle seeing a tiny bit of discharge and feel the need to shame women for it?

Suppose there are women who also happily sit in the pee that's left on their toilet seats so as not to shame their sons.

Fuckthatguy · 21/08/2023 16:35

@Onelifeonly your DDs, because you’ve taught them to do so in their home, are considerate in other peoples homes. Maybe not, but I’ll hazard a guess they just may well be, even if they are not so inclined at home. Usually the case 😀

RedHelenB · 21/08/2023 16:40

FeltCarrot · 21/08/2023 11:37

Oh come on! You’d all seriously be happy disposing of someone else’s used sanitary ware? I’m with you OP.
And pantyliners aren’t good for the planet either.

A bathroom bin is where sanitary products go? Yabu.

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 21/08/2023 17:15

Wouldn't an unwrapped pantyliner or pad get stuck to the liner in the bin so it would be sitting quite near the top of the bin?

A bathroom bin generally has a quite small circumference so if you were just dropping the pantyliner in the bin without covering the stick back, it would just end up practically sat on top of the bin wouldn't it? Then whatever's on it could end up on the lid of the bin which means someone else would need to clean it off.

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 21/08/2023 17:17

LyndaSnellsSniff · 21/08/2023 15:36

I would wrap them, but it's hardly a crime.

2 weekends running you say? So the poor woman suffers from periods that last 9 + days? I think I'd be offering some sympathy to her.

OP says pantyliners, not pads. Panty liners are used throughout the month for discharge as well as light periods.

Keyworks · 21/08/2023 17:21

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ThreeLittleDots · 21/08/2023 17:21

Bathroom bins are gross and unnecessary anyway. Let them use the one they have in their bedroom and they can deal with it.

ThreeLittleDots · 21/08/2023 17:21

** i.e. remove the bin from the bathroom

londonrach · 21/08/2023 17:23

It's in the bin ...I don't see an issue...yabu

BrawnWild · 21/08/2023 17:25

Anyone else wondering where the used condoms are?

If you must have words, start there. Bot every woman is honest about contraception. Maybe he will surprise you and say they have both been checked.

Pads are a non issue. You wouldnt raise it with your own friend so dont embarrass her.

WiddlinDiddlin · 21/08/2023 17:30

She is his guest.

He is the host, it is up to him to tell her what the usual rules/expectations are in the home and ensure she sticks to them or, he sorts it out.

The issue lies with him. She is putting refuse in the bin. Thats what it is for, thats where it goes. If you have different or specific rules on this, its on the host to tell the guest what they are.

So YABU for having failed to raise your son to host properly.

DoraSpenlow · 21/08/2023 17:46

Naunet · 21/08/2023 16:11

Why would they start to smell? Are you confusing pantyliners with sanitary towels?

No I'm not. Normal vaginal secretions can smell after a while, hence the market for fragrances pant liners.

brentwoods · 21/08/2023 18:21

It's a covered bin with a liner? You are being mental.

How is she being a CF by putting her trash where it belongs? She's not taking advantage of you in any way. When you think you've heard all the things people can be offended by, Mumsnet goes one better.

AnneElliott · 21/08/2023 18:41

I'm with you up. Surely you wrap them in toilet paper before putting them in the bin? And at someone else's house I would definitely put them in a nappy sack and in the main outside bin before I left.

Fuckthatguy · 21/08/2023 18:45

@brentwoods well, arguable as she’s not taking advantage as she is enjoying the comfort of OPs, and her BFs house at every opportunity OP is not around.