u/Raraahahah200

I’m having a really difficult time discussing and putting up boundaries or what I want in a relationship whether it’s platonic or romantic. I’ve hit a hard place recently after getting out of a relationship of 2 years, I feel like all the walls I learned to break down are going right back up. I can’t say what I feel, and when a boundary is crossed (to no fault of the other party at all!), I can’t seem to say “oh yeah let’s maybe not do that.” For example, I’ve been exploring FWB situations with different people, although I only really have one actual situation with one of my ‘friends’. But, with this being an active situation I tend to talk about it with my other friends and somehow I’ve gotten myself into another with a friend I’ve had for about 3-4 years now. Unfortunately, somehow in discussing/not discussing this, it seems that this friends idea of FWB is not only sex but also kind of with romantic hints? We went on a hang out that felt very very date like. He is a very nice guy. He paid for my dinner, my movie tickets, etc. held doors for me, held my hand, kissed me on the cheek, and just got very close in general. This just isn’t natural for us and I felt myself freezing up instead of just putting up the boundary or even reciprocating it back. This seems like a non issue and obviously I will have a talk with him about it, I’d never like to leave him in the dark but whenever the moment comes I just feel frozen, anxious and I can’t say anything. Is this an issue anyone else has or has had?? I feel so weird and alone.

Guys, I’m absolutely mind blown.

I’m 19F, been on my period for 3 weeks as a sexually active person which is very frustrating. In this, I’ve discovered menstrual disc. I was afraid to propose this idea at first to the guy I’m hooking up with, but I brought it up today and he said come over so I did!

I wasn’t bleeding as much but I figured it wa either coming to an end or it was clotting before it left my body.

Well, it’s safe to say that it was clotting. I left from this experience and went home to check my discs to see how it held up. For context, this guy is very well endowed, so I figured he may make me bleed a little bit and the disc would catch it. So again, I went to check and there was no blood before I took the disc out, good sign!! So when I took it out, it was FILLED to the BRIM with blood and clots. HOLY. FREAKING. COW. It held up SOSOSOSOSO well!! Definitely recommend. My only con about this was that he could feel the disc and said it was slightly uncomfortable, but it didn’t stop anything, besides the blood!

So for context, I’ve missed my period for maybe 2 months and now that I’m on it again, and have been for over a week (coming up on 2), I’m noticing that my blood clots, in very small amounts, the lining of my uterus. Initially I thought the excessive bleeding had to do with a clotting issue, which it very well may still be, that was related to Cymbalta. However, when I began to notice the small, skin like clots coming out, I figured it may be excess lining from missed periods/build up.

Does anyone know a good way to encourage or speed along this process? Long periods can get really exhausting and painful to deal with.

I’ve been on cymbalta for probably a year now, and a mistake I made was stopping it without telling anybody because it gave me a month long menstrual cycle. I just got back on it and now I’m experiencing another long period and I’m growing increasingly frustrated as it goes on. It affects my daily life, my sex life and many other things. Has anyone else experienced this and is there a way to stop it??