#menstruation

#menstruation

When it gets close to my menstrual cycle, he gets into an angry panic for us to be intimate because he travels for work and is home only four nights a week. If we're not able to, he pouts, then becomes angry and distant, and peppers me for updates to determine how soon we can resume intimacy. Regardless of how I feel at my time of the month, my feelings are ignored.

Thankfully, my husband is the opposite of that, and so many millennial dads are following suit, like TikTok user @scuba.y.korea, who demonstrated a masterclass in being a girl dad after his daughter expressed fear she may be getting her period. "I don't feel so good," his daughter says. In true dad fashion, he first asks, "Got a poop?' She replies, "I don't know. All I know is that I haven't had my period yet."

Getting a period is a social and developmental milestone that many American girls are reaching earlier than their mothers and grandmothers, about six months earlier on average.