I’ve been seeing this guy exclusively long distance for a few months. I always stay with him, but we’ve managed to avoid my period. Well, I might be getting it, and I was planning to stay there this weekend.

My problems are, it’s super heavy, I usually wear a pad plus cup or disc, sometimes bleed through onto the bed, need to sleep on a towel, sometimes I feel like the pads smell, I’m worried the trash will smell, and I’m worried his dog will like the period trash. I feel like he is generally very understanding, but I’m really anxious about this ruining some of the magic. I already feel like things have been “cooling down”.

He is divorced, and has a daughter, so on one hand I feel like he kind of knows about this kind of thing.

How early is too early for this? Should I just do it? I may ask him how he feels about it tonight. Any tips?