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[youngcaesar.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend and I live together and spend a lot of time together, yet our periods never synched (it's been a year and a half). What makes people not synch up? Can we do anything to make it so that we do?

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[edge-ofthe-sea.livejournal.com]

Actually, research has been mixed about whether women's periods actually sync or not. Think about all-girls boarding schools, colleges, dorms, etc...we don't all sync up, right? My dormmate from a few years ago...we never synced up, even though we spent like...all our time together. There have been studies that show that it may happen, but those aren't entirely definite either (could be other factors).

Because even the research is super mixed on whether it actually happens or not, there is nothing that will just make you both sync up, unless you both go on HBC and time it so your "sugar pill" week is the same week.

[youngcaesar.livejournal.com]

I actually ALWAYS synched up with (possibly) every woman I've lived with before her:

1st year in college - all 8 of us in the dorm.
2nd year - all 4 of us
3rd year - I didn't notice
the past 2 years - our past 2 housemates synced up with me, and my girlfriend was left out lol.

[archangelbeth]

Perhaps you weren't syncing up with them, but they were syncing up with you? In other words, they might've been "pheromone responders" -- their bodies sensitive to the pheromones of other female bodied people's menstruation. (This is all assuming that syncing up isn't just coincidence, mind; it is a very untested theory.) If you're actually un-sensitive to pheromones in that way (despite possibly producing stronger ones yourself?), and your girlfriend is also not sensitive to them... You two may never sync up without HBC. (Or even then, depending on how you came off it!)

[apricotflower.livejournal.com]

My ex and I lived together for a long time and we never synched. My cycle was 28 days like clockwork, and her longer, and slightly irregular. I don't know if we would have synched even if it had been the same length...

I honestly don't put that much credit in it, but then again I haven't heard a lot of info about women actually doing that.

[youngcaesar.livejournal.com]

I should tell my gf to count her cycle. I just started tracking mine, which is why I just realized mine is 28 days. But when I've lived with new women, I specifically remember the month when my cycle was thrown off schedule and started matching hers.

[anthylorrel.livejournal.com]

If you haven't synced, its likely you won't, and your only real optin is the birth control method mentioned above, but since you're both girls, the hormones really aren't needed. LOL

But I feel ya on the whole sync thing. The only times my periods have ever been regular is when living with a regular female. Mine just hops right on their schedule. Summer camp was hell in the girls cabin when we all got our periods.

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[bachlava.livejournal.com]

Synching up isn't known to be the "rule" - it probably can happen, but it can't be expected/predicted to. Anecdotally speaking, I've mostly heard/read about it happening when people are actually living together.

[ilikerivers.livejournal.com]

My girlfriend and I have slept in the same bed for 5 years and we sync sometimes but it's only by chance as our cycles just don't and I think mine is a bit longer. It's pretty normal for her and I to have one person ovulating while the other is bleeding. When we do have PMS together it's hard!

I'm in synch with a bunch of my LJ friends that I never see but my gf and I, nope!

[kellie29.livejournal.com]

While my fiance and I don't have our periods together, we have been experiencing a different sort of thing. About a week before I get my period, she will pms for me. Meaning she has the cramps, moodswings, headaches, etc. while I have absolutely nothing. Of course, this isn't very fair to her seeing as she has already gone through it once in a month for herself. I wish there was a way she didn't have to go through my pms, but we don't exactly know how to change it.