Period etiquette. New bloke. Fucking hell.

[ChippyPickledEggs]

I have a new friend. He is very new. We are still just getting to know eachother fairly casually, although things look tentatively promising.

My kids are going for a rare weekend away with their father and so he is coming to stay. We're looking forward to it. Yay.

Except my period started today. Saturday will be the second full day so I will still be bleeding fairly heavily. Personally I'm still happy to have sex but I realise some men don't enjoy it, especially with such a new partner.

When do I share this information? Expressly giving him the option not to come seems a bit - I mean hopefully we would enjoy eachothers company anyway? But then again... shouting SURPRISE! just as the knickers come off seems a bit off too...

I dunno. I've been out of the game for too long. Help me Mumsnet.

When I said I didn't want a man who was squeamish about women's bodies, I meant more the kind of man who finds anything to do with periods disgusting, as though they make women unclean.

I agree with this. It's good to hear about a man who isn't squeamish by it, after all, pretty much every woman has them, if they date women, they'll have to deal with it A LOT!

I don't mind men who don't like the blood though. People can be freaked out by blood. I'm not bad about blood, but there's been times when I'm on my period and seen the blood and felt like passing out at the sight of it!!!!!!

I am putting myself in a man's shoes. I think that I might be a bit squeamish of going near there, if I had never really seen that much blood before.

But if I loved someone I would get used to it.

Once a man saw my blood on his sheets and he said " yes it's blood, yes it's disgusting", so now I am always afraid of a man going near me in my period :(

See, that's exactly what you don't want, angel84 - a guy who makes you feel bad for a natural function. Exactly the kind of guy it's best to give the boot.

I can't think of anything worse especially with a new partner - it's not just the obvious bleeding that puts me off but that week I'm generally feeling totally unsexy and bloated not to mention hormonal - I think DH would be too scared to even suggest it lest I went all lorena bobbitt on him. 🤣

The very first date I had with current partner I had the decorators in lol. Just basically came straight out with " blood sport week so nothing more than a snog" he accepted it and 18 months later we still laugh about it. Be honest and upfront and if he's a grown up he will understand. Hope all goes well

I had the decorators in lol
Just basically came straight out with blood sport week so nothing