AITA Looking for opinions here… my sisters believe it’s normal to share towels after you shower. We grew up never doing that, I am particularly clean and do not want to share a bath towel with anyone… when one of my sisters partners(M) came home for thanksgiving, they were confused with using my bath towel and didn’t think it was a big deal at all to use a towel I had indicated was mine… I freaked out because I noted before they showered that I am particular about my bath towels, and this happened a few years ago at thanksgiving which really upset me. Also want to add that our hygiene is different… both my sister and her partner do not always use deodorant and are comfortable with their natural scents being on the stronger side, including after exercise…am I wrong for wanting to use my own bath towel? And for not wanting to share it with people who have different hygiene than me? My sisters are both telling me I am wrong for feeling this way but I think this is very reasonable, if for no other reason than that I have expressed this boundary before. So, am I the asshole?
Edited to add: The towel is not being washed in between.
NTA. This is up to personal preference and they should respect your preferences even if they don’t have the same. I would keep your towel on a hook in your room because it’s clear no one is going to respect this.
NTA, but keep your towel (before and/or after your shower) in your room then, because you cannot control what others do.
NTA. Why freak out though? Just wash the towel. I dry my butthole with my towel I don’t even reuse it for myself.
I wouldn’t freak out, but I would be quietly unhappy about it. Especially if I provided them their own towels to use.
Even if I am clean, I don’t want someone else drying their butts with the same towel I put on my face.
However, I don’t have any problem sharing a towel someone else used once it’s been washed.
I’d freak out on my sister. How do I know she actually physically washes her ARSE HOLE!!!??? most people only rinse their crack. They don’t physically wash. So yeah I’d freak out
NTA. However, you are probably going to have to keep your towel in your room to keep them from using it.
No way dude that’s how you can transfer fungus and who knows what else. I won’t even share a towel with my own husband 😅.
NTA. Anything that touches a person’s privates is something they should have for themselves alone. Granted, we’re clean when we get out of the shower, but you are still drying private areas. I don’t care who it is (excepting hubby), if it touches another person’s privates, I want my own.
NTA
The only person I’ve ever been comfortable sharing a towel with is my partner, and even then it’s once in a while because… reasons (like he forgot to grab one, or I did).
I like knowing I’m not drying my face with the part someone used to dry their butthole.
NTA. The sharing of any towel must be of mutual consent. If the sisters are comfortable with it let them share but you are 100% entitled to your own.
ABSOLUTELY NTA
I wouldn’t even share with my husband right before we rub all over each other
NTA. Do they want to share underwear too?
Sharing towels is gross…not to mention unsafe.
NTA
I wouldn’t leave them in the bathroom. Take them to your room and hang them up there.