my body, my choice... right?

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no this isn't about abortion but...

all of this talk about skipping your periods is making me want to do it. i turn into a total biznatch the week before my period and i cry at the drop of a hat on my period. so basically i'm completely unstable and out of control for about two weeks, not to mention the horrible cramps and back aches and iniconviniences of a period that go along with it.

i'm on the Nuvaring and i've been looking into trying to skip some periods. i'm a little hesitant to do them all together but even once every two months is way better than once a month. the only thing is that my boyfriend and i are completely paranoid about having children. to the point where even though i'm on the Nuvaring, we still use condoms every time. we've been having sex for over a year and he's only come inside of me 5 times or so.

he really depends on my period to make him know that i'm not pregnant. he's worked up for the entire week before my period because he doesn't know if i'll get it or not, even if we haven't had condomless sex. it's a little irksome, mostly because i like when he comes inside of me and i trust my birthcontrol. but he doesn't want to take any chances. so we depend on my synthetic "period" every 4 weeks to keep him from losing his hair.

so i want to skip my periods. but doing so would be really hard on my boyfriend. but at the same time, having a period sucks (at least, for me) because of the pain involved. and it's not causing him physical pain, so i think i should have the final say in it.

i don't know, i know he's against it but at the same time he's not the one that has to bleed for 4 days and having agonizing cramps and nausea the sometimes keeps me from going to work.

thoughts, anyone?

thanks ladies.