Husband uses my towel!!

[ExhaustedPigeon37]

Exactly that!

Am I being unreasonable to think DH should use his own towel when showering/bathing?

We hang our towels on the back on the back of our bedroom door, my towel is usually pink or purple as I bought them for me and my daughter when we lived together, just us two, a girls house. DH’s towel is usually blue or green, from his house when he lived by himself!

I’m suffering tonight with cramps and back pain and it may be because it’s TOTM but DH had a shower and then came downstairs with my pink towel around his waist and it really annoyed me!! I’ve told him so many times to use his own towel. Tonight he just said in his nonchalant male tone “sorry I just grabbed the first one I saw!!”. He just doesn’t seem to get it. I only changed the towels this weekend and now he has used both of ours, so I’m going to have to get another clean towel tomorrow morning!

YABU - get yourself some chocolate and get over it he is your husband!

YANBU - he should be more understanding, send him out to get you chocolate!

You’re shocked people prone to athletes foot take steps to prevent it? Seriously?

On the occasions I’ve found out my partner has used my towel all hell breaks loose. I don’t want him flossing his arse with my towel and then me using it to it dry round my bits. It’s totally unhygienic.

I don't understand why people are debating whether it's fine to share towels or not. Some households do and some households don't. The OP comes from a non towel sharing household and doesn't want to share towels. She seems to be doing the washing. She has asked her husband not to use her towel, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to ask, when there is a clean towel for him to use, easily available. So it's shit that he can't even reach round for his own towel rather than use the OPs.

One thing I would do differently though OP is make him wash it once he has used it. At the moment you are dealing with the natural consequences of his actions and there is no impact on him.

No, you’re not. But unlike the uber-squeamish MN cohort, we don’t have a horror of sharing towels.

It’s not about being squeamish. I was brought up not to share towels, after 71 years of having my own towel for my exclusive use I’m not about to change. Why would I?

Well I mean he’d be offended if I made such a massive deal about sharing a towel!

People don't dry their toes? You're all blowing my mind today😂Do they just airdry?

Update: he used his own towel today!! Mine has remained in situ (in the bedroom) and his was hung up on the bathroom door! 🥳🥳

We are all entitled to our opinions and in my humble opinion, people that reuse towels for a week cannot be clean. Just even the thoughts of drying myself with a towel that has been used twice a day for a week is disgusting.