“That while men are afraid women are going to embarrass them, women are afraid men are going to kill them.”

Angelica Martinez is the Latine Editorial Lead at BuzzFeed and covers a little bit of everything, from quizzes and true crime to celebrities and pop culture.

"My wife made me turn up our water heater temperature so she could make her showers hotter."

"Oh, you can get bras (almost) that cheap, but then they are evil and try to eat you alive by chewing through both sides of your rib cage and your sternum at the same time, while also climbing up your back in an attempt to break your neck. Good bras also do these things, but much more slowly, increasing your chances of daily survival."

"I have some female friends who, just casually when making plans, mention that they can't go to this place or that place because then it'll be dark or there's always some creepy guy hanging around, etc. All the extra things women need to think about when simply going outside baffles and shocks me."

"On top of that, there are certain pairs of underwear for certain times of the month, as well as times of day and/or activities. There are so many kinds of underwear."

"I was just telling my husband that I basically have to go through the five stages of grief before washing my hair.

* Anger: I just fucking washed it the day before yesterday!

* Bargaining: Maybe I can get away with dry shampoo until tomorrow?

* Depression: Now my hair smells like I Febrezed it and it still doesn’t look clean. I am gross and lazy.

* Acceptance: Fuck it, I guess I’ll just wash it."

"My wife kept telling me these stories about her doctors and specialists not taking her seriously. I’ve never experienced this. I just say what’s wrong, point to a thing or explain a thing, and then we get a treatment plan. It’s quick, but I've always thought it was efficient, not dismissive. I thought she was describing the same thing from a different perspective.

So she says, 'Why don’t you come with me to my next appointment?' and I said sure. Holy shit. It was like watching an ape try to figure out Ikea furniture.'Uh, well, hey I don’t know, uh I guess you could try a chiropractor. I don’t really know what they do, but uh, that’s what some people do.' AND THAT WAS THE WHOLE APPOINTMENT.Ladies, how you go through life with this bullshit, I have no idea."

"Endometriosis is a close second to the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life. The pain is unmatched. I've heard other women say the pain from cramps is comparable to contractions. Oftentimes, the back pain and the cramps are so debilitating that I can't get out of bed, and if I do, the only place I go to is the bathroom.

 One thing I don't hear very many women talk about is the fact that endometriosis also causes very large blood clots. It's so uncomfortable, and if you're in a situation where there's not a bathroom around...you have a giant blood clot right at the edge of your vaginal opening that's just sitting there. Or, worse, it comes out, and now you've got a gigantic blood clot on your pad and blood all over the place. I've gone days without eating because of how bad it can get.  There's no accurate way to describe endometriosis with just words."

"One time my toe was hurting, so I took off my shoe and sock and noticed that a strand of my girlfriend’s hair had wrapped itself TIGHTLY around my toe and had cut off the circulation."

"I just stopped taking birth control because the progestin-only pill made me break out terribly, and the combo pill made me feel unhinged."

"Oh god. I will never forget legit sobbing to my then-fiancé (now husband) that I felt like a stranger in my own body. He just said, 'I don’t think getting to have sex without protection is worth it, babe.' I went off birth control like a day later."

"After about a year of unnecessary strife with my girl, I learned a trick that I will pass on now: When she tells me about her problems, I give her a big hug, look in her eyes, and say, 'Aww, babe, I'm so sorry, that sucks. Do you just want love or do you want help?' Ninety-five percent of the time, she just buries her head in my chest and says, 'Just some love would be nice.' Let me tell you something: GAME CHANGER!"

"My best friend moved four states away and has three kids. I don't even know his kids' names. We'll talk every once in a while for an hour-ish, and my wife will ask how his kids are. I'll respond, ‘Oh, uh...they’re good.’ She’ll ask, ‘How do you know? You didn’t ask him.’

"‘He didn’t mention anything bad about them, so they must be good...’Blows her mind.”

"Yep. My fiancé is 5 feet 2. We upgraded to a king-size bed, and she still takes up the whole bed. She likes to sleep in the middle of it, but also diagonally."

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