AITA? Period blues yesterday

So I’m a tguy (20) and my partner is gnc (37).
I just started my period yesterday, and they made me a kind of fort in the closet, because it’s one of the places I’m most comfortable and it’s darker than most other areas in our room. My periods usually hit me like a truck, with the most mellow one I have still sitting at about a 7 on a 1-10 scale.
I had to leave work early yesterday, which I told them about when I started feeling like shit, because the pain was sitting between a 9-10 and I was genuinely tearing up when I wasn’t in the foh.
They had told me before they left the house that day that they wanted me to finish doing the laundry (literally just socks and underwear) if I felt up to it. If not, no hard feelings. I had been curled up in the closet all day with a heating pad on my stomach, and maybe a slight change in pain level, but I was still feeling way too crappy to actually be up and moving.
Around 10pm they got home from work, and came to sit with me. They had asked me otp and in person what would help me feel a little better; to which I had said “I just want you to hold me or touch me”. They ordered us some food with their hand barely touching my side, and then proceeded to get up and start cleaning the room. After they got done they came back to the closet door telling me all about how it was ‘’your mess that you couldn’t be bothered to clean up” and telling me off for being in the closet all day. I asked them one more time if they would just sit with me for a couple of minutes and JUST touch me, or hold me, anything physical, and they said they didn’t want to.
I started crying, to which they had zero response and didn’t check in at all. This made me cry harder. They muttered something about having to put their pants back on, and then left the room entirely, not returning except to drop off a bag of food that they had already eaten their portion of.
I’m not upset that they wanted to clean up the room, but I’m upset with how they treated me after I’ve been nothing but there for them every time they’ve been in pain or in a shitty mood in general.
We have been together for a year now. They’ve sat with me through periods before, my periods are Always like this. Although this one has been the worst one I’ve had in a while, which I also told them.

AITA here?

Posted May 8, 2026, 3:40 PM UTC

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