AITA for bleeding on my boyfriend’s sheets?
I (23F) got my period a week late 2 days ago.
The first day was so light I thought it was spotting at first, but yesterday, it got really heavy, really fast.
I use a tampon in the morning & it typically holds until the afternoon. Not this time. I bled WAY more than normal, thru 2 super tampons in 2 hours.
It was so unexpected that some blood leaked on my undies and even my jeans :(
I can’t do laundry at my place for a few weeks but wanted to treat the stains asap, so I asked my kinda-boyfriend of 1.5yrs, Joe (33M), if I could do laundry at his place.
I did laundry and then spent the night at Joe’s. Throughout the day my period seemed to level off. I wasn’t bleeding through tampons as quickly as in the morning & my flow was fairly normal.
Before bed I put in a super tampon like I always do. I can’t remember the last time it didn’t last all night.
Last night though, my eyes flew open and i immediately felt a sense of dread. Fuuuck. I bled through the tampon. I panicked & ran to the toilet to assess the damage. There was lots of blood and I knew the sheets probably got messy.
I changed my tampon & figured I’d clean everything in the morning. It seemed like a bad idea to wake Joe at 3am and rip the sheets out from under him, yknow?
I checked the sheets, didn’t see much in the dark & fell back asleep.
3 hours later I woke up again.. I’d bled through the second tampon as well!! Joe woke up too this time & now I’m mortified. I go “fuuck I’m so sorry but I think I accidentally got blood on your sheets.”
Instantly ticked off, he said, “Are you kidding?” in a harsh tone. Clearly upset. His response made me feel so awful. I said sorry again & that I’d clean them after I got cleaned up myself.
I can’t remember the last time this happened. And it wasn’t just a little bit. It was a crime scene down there! I put in ANOTHER tampon and rinsed off because there was just so much blood.
I got back to his bedroom and saw a decent amount of blood on his sheets but they weren’t ruined.
I apologized profusely and offered to clean again. He snapped, “I don’t want you to touch another thing. I just want you to get your fucking car out of my garage.” Basically implying he wanted me to not “bleed” on anything else and to GTFO.
I offered to help once more. I had brought great stain removers for my own laundry, but he didn’t “want me to touch anything else.”
I was mute after that b/c he was stomping around angrily and seemed so pissed. I didn’t want to get in his way and get yelled at. He kept making me feel worse with comments like “This is an $8000 bed, what were you thinking?” and “Don’t you know how to put a tampon in when you go to bed?”
Of course I know how to put a tampon in and manage my period. I really did everything I thought was necessary but accidents happen. I am sorry about the sheets, the extra cleaning, the rude awakening.. I just don’t know if i should be feeling soo fucking guilty and ashamed of what happened.
AITA?