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Tmi but left sanitary towel in bathroom

451 replies

Embarrassed3 · 12/10/2024 08:45

This morning I accidentally left a sanitary towel on the bathroom side. I did roll it up as usual but it must have come undone. This has never happened before and it was a genuine accident. I normally always put it in the bin straight away. Next thing I know DP comes storming in the room shouting “are you having a laugh you fucking scruffy cunt”

I get that nobody would want to see that but it was a genuine accident that has never happened before and I feel so ashamed and embarrassed. I wouldn’t have a problem at all if he’d have come in the room and reminded me not to leave it on the side but what he did actually scared me a bit

Sorry I know tmi

OP posts:
LunaMay · 12/10/2024 08:47

Get rid. What a complete overreaction. Would you want him doing that to a daughter?

CuriousGeorge80 · 12/10/2024 08:48

Your husband is a c*nt

MintTwirl · 12/10/2024 08:48

Your DP sounds horrible and immature tbh. You shouldn’t be with someone who leaves you feeling scared.

NerrSnerr · 12/10/2024 08:49

Life is far too short to be in a relationship with someone who calls you a scruffy cunt.

I suspect he is like this about other things too?

DuBoo · 12/10/2024 08:50

He is a massive wanker.

A normal response would have been to just chuck it in the bin and not give it a second thought.

His reaction isn’t ok in any circumstance.

MrsPelligrinoPetrichor · 12/10/2024 08:50

Leave him immediately. Urghhh!

Nannyfannybanny · 12/10/2024 08:51

He is incredibly rude and nasty! My DH came out to me the other day from the bathroom and laughed because somehow my pantie liner had detached it's self from my pants and was sitting on the toilet seat! Now he has haemorrhoids, and when they pop out,he uses a pantie liner
I know mn as a whole are. Freaky about such things,you need fancy bins in your bathroom, I don't have one,no room. Complete overreaction on his part.

ahemfem · 12/10/2024 08:51

Please tell me you don't live with him or have kids with him.

IamnotSethRogan · 12/10/2024 08:51

Nope he completely over reacted. I've done this a couple of times by accident and my DH just laughs.

WinkyisbackontheButterBeer · 12/10/2024 08:51

What an absolute arsehole. Yes, not the nicest thing to find in the bathroom but surely he knows that this is something that you wouldn't want to do on purposes.
It sounds like he wanted you to be ashamed and embarrassed.
I couldn't be with someone who actively wanted my to feel that way after a mistake.

Onelifeonly · 12/10/2024 08:52

He sounds horrible

wulves · 12/10/2024 08:52

I’d bin him faster than the left out pad. You deserve better.

Winter2020 · 12/10/2024 08:54

Your partner is not a gentleman. Sounds like you are not married - that's good.

StonwEd · 12/10/2024 08:54

My husband once found one I’d left out, he popped it in the bin and I only found out because i remembered. That is the only acceptable reaction surely.

what your other half did is abusive and despicable. I presume he speaks to you like this about other things?

pavementgerms · 12/10/2024 08:55

Put your "D"P in the bin with your sanitary towel.

GroovyChick87 · 12/10/2024 08:55

That's a complete overreaction and he sounds vile. I would not stand for my husband or any previous partner calling me a cunt. That is very low level basic respect. With regards to the last sanitary towel I think most of us have done it. I've even accidentally thrown one in the washing machine.

Poshjock · 12/10/2024 08:56

It’s just blood from a normal bodily function ffs. I have done this a fair few times over the years and I have no idea how many times DH has found them because he would just wrap it in toilet roll and stick it in the bin without comment. But then there are
similar things I do for him. That’s what happens when two humans co exist in close proximity. Please don’t be ashamed. There is nothing to be ashamed of. we’re not prefect and mistakes happen. I would consider this no more than any other piece of messy rubbish forgotten to get put in the bin. But you sure can tell a lot about a person by the way they react to minor errors of others.

the problem here lies entirely with your DH.

magicstar1 · 12/10/2024 08:58

That’s awful. If you were leaving them all over the house I’d understand him getting annoyed, but that was nothing. I got my period one night and didn’t realise in the dark. DH found blood everywhere in the bathroom when he went in. He cleaned up and didn’t even mention it until I told him I’d come on unexpectedly.

Is he like this all the time?

bifurCAT · 12/10/2024 08:58

I'm guessing this wasn't a 'jokey' tone from DH?

If not, yeah, that's not an environment I'd be comfortable in...

Butteredtoast55 · 12/10/2024 08:58

If a man had ever spoken to me like that it would be the end of any relationship. He's a pig.
Get yourself organised and get away from him as quickly as possible.

Nodlikeyouwerelistening · 12/10/2024 08:59

Assume you don’t have children together and hopefully he never has a daughter. If he can make a grown woman this ashamed of her body doing what most female bodies do, then it terrifies me how he’d make a young girl feel.

Namechangedforthis60 · 12/10/2024 08:59

My ex husband reacted similarly to this when I did the same, shouted at me, told me I was disgusting, insisted I bleach the entire bathroom after putting it in the bin and gave me a lecture about how I could have traumatised our sons if they had seen it. It was just another example of his abusive behaviour that I didn’t see at the time because “he didn’t hit me” or “he only shouted when I had done something wrong”. looking back, he was abusive and I tolerated far too much.
I’m in a relationship with second dh (well fiancé!) now and he would never react this way, he’d just put it in the bin and that would be the end of it.
I suspect that if you really look at the way your DH treats you, you’d find other examples of abusive behaviour. Be safe OP and know what you’re worth, you don’t have to put up with being treated this way - life is better without an asshole
making you tread on eggshells every single day.

ShinyPrettyThings87 · 12/10/2024 09:01

Please see from these reactions that the way he speaks to you is awful. The pad is irrelevant compared to his reaction. My DH would never speak to me like that.

It's a massive red flag that you don't recognise this isn't how couples normally speak to eachother. I can only imagine how he is about other things and you must surely be ground down by it. Hope you're ok.

Embarrassed3 · 12/10/2024 09:01

Just to answer a few question, we live together and have 2 DC. Not married.

OP posts:
ahemfem · 12/10/2024 09:02

Embarrassed3 · 12/10/2024 09:01

Just to answer a few question, we live together and have 2 DC. Not married.

Oh dear

Can you move out?