Hodge360 wrote:Birthday night in with the wife ruined because I've shown some resistance to picking up women's sanitary products in the shopping.
I've no problem doing it in an emergency but I do feel some embarrassment when going through the till and don't want to be in a position where I'm expected to get them all the time.
I don't think I'm being unreasonable, I know there are people it wouldn't bother and there are people that would never pick them up for their missus but for some reason mine has completely missed the idea that it could be uncomfortable for me even though I've done it in the past.
Yossarian wrote:I can understand the embrassment, I certainly felt a twinge of it when buying this sort of thing once upon a time, what I don't understand is failing to suck it up and just buying them anyway. The embarrassment can exist, but it's clearly an irrational feeling, and as such shouldn't be considered a good enough reason not to help out your partner.
Hodge360 wrote:I have sucked it up and got em in the past but it just seems to be becoming a more regular thing. That's more where I'm coming from. I don't see how its my responsibility when I don't use them and she has a better idea when she'll need them and should stock up.
For the context,she always flat out refused to pick up condoms or lube when she was in the shops.
Nina wrote:About getting the right ones, B just sends me pictures of the whole aisle and I tell him what to get.
This. We've been brought up to be embarrassed and ashamed for anything and everything. I blame the Catholic church.Kow wrote:Ireland is a backwards pit, to be fair.
Plant em and they'll grow into wonderful potato plants.The Daddy wrote:When potatoes have been in the cupboard too long and grown those little fucking tendril things. Makes my skin crawl, creepy little potato fuckers!
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