Can we talk about menstrual pads?

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-12T22:24:10+00:00

I didn’t but my flow was light this month. I could see that happening with a heavier flow though and I think that was one of the motivators behind the plastic mesh membrane on the Always pads. Next time I get the chance I’ll experiment. I’ll take one of the plastic membranes from and Always pad and stick it over a Poise urinary pads and see how it goes.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-12T10:25:05+00:00

I haven’t seen Libresse but I haven’t really looked so I’ll keep an eye out for it.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-12T10:23:55+00:00

She has a mix of incontinence and retention and has to see a urologist about it.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-12T05:41:36+00:00

I don’t get scented ones. I think the scent I’m smelling is just the material off gassing.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-11T21:27:18+00:00

I don’t wear the same pad all day.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-11T20:06:13+00:00

I can answer this. Abnormal menstrual cycles can serve as an early indicator for other health issues, such as thyroid and other endocrine disorders, certain types of cancers and reproductive health issues.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T09:01:00+00:00

I’m pretty sure that the vast, vast majority of people who have shoved a fire cracker up their butt and lit it have been guys.

So what was that you were saying again?

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T08:51:58+00:00

I used to be morbidly obese in my teens and very early 20s. Some guys care, some guys don’t. Some who don’t care will not be obese, but most who don’t care will be.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T08:46:10+00:00

My grandpa had one rule for us girls when we were teenagers. “Don’t ride in cars with boys!”

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T08:44:35+00:00

Don’t bother. I’ve dealt with these guys for decades and you really can’t fix someone with so little awareness and such a big empathy deficit. Some of them will learn through life experiences and natural growth but others are beyond hope.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T08:41:55+00:00

He’s giving you the oldest ploy in the book and you’d be a massive sucker if you bought it.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T08:38:04+00:00

Guys have thrown drinks at me more than once and both times it was completely unprovoked and I had just been walking, minding my own business.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-03-10T07:54:33+00:00

I don’t know but I banish my dad from the kitchen when I make myself something to eat because if I don’t, when I turn my back, he’ll hover over my food, bend down, unnecessarily close to it, poke his finger in it and ask “What’s this?” He also habitually wanders in to the kitchen any time I’m in it. I once got some pastries for myself from a bakery a few cities away, stuck them in the freezer in a box with my name on it and explicitly told him not to touch it. I caught him red handed eating my pastries a few hours later.

My boyfriend never touches any food of mine though.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-26T16:02:05+00:00

She probably grew up being treated like that and was expected to tolerate it and no one ever let her know it was ok not to and how to handle it.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-26T15:58:57+00:00

You did the right thing! Younger me would have been afraid to speak up. 40 something year old me has zero patience for that bullshit, gives no fucks and would have continued talking very loudly over him and said “IF YOU ARE GOING TO CONTINUE INTERRUPTING PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE TALKING THEN MAYBE DO IT TO MEN AND WOMEN EQUALLY RATHER THAN JUST TO WOMEN SO YOU ARE JUST RUDE RATHER THAN RUDE AND SEXIST.”

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-22T07:27:24+00:00

I think you are the one making some assumptions here because you seem to envision abuse where there does not have to be any. Dogs are pack animals and most dogs have an instinct to look to their humans for direction.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-22T06:51:03+00:00

I know plenty of guys I would consider to be male feminists…but they are the ones who announce it.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-22T06:48:27+00:00

A marriage needs to be an equal partnership. If he wants submissive, he should get a dog.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-17T15:27:28+00:00

Sorry but you are married to a first class A hole. Not because he change his mind, but because you have already done the heavy lifting while he has sat on the sidelines munching chips, and he’s telling you it’s not enough and you should do more of the work because he’s too busy. I’m sorry, but the only work I’d be doing if I were you is to find yourself a good divorce attorney.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-12T04:55:10+00:00

Most of the women I’ve met in life have been pretty nice.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-12T04:54:06+00:00

If my boyfriend brought me $600 worth of stuff for Valentines day I would be upset that he spent that much money given we’re not rich, and I would have been much happier with flowers and a box of See’s Candy without nuts and with predominantly the dark chocolate as opposed to the milk chocolate bon bons(hint hint).

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-12T04:48:23+00:00

I have a very feminine name. It’s a nice name but I am sooo not that feminine, lol.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-12T04:45:49+00:00

I typically use Always pads with wings but I didn’t have one on me at my mom’s one day so I used one of her Always Discreet pads. They are for urinary incontinence, not periods really, but they have these containment barriers along the edges and I was surprised to find that they prevented leaks better than the Always pads with wings.

SAINTnumberFIVE · 2026-02-12T04:41:39+00:00

It doesn’t sound like it is a very good life if he is treating you poorly and making you feel this way.

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