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To be putoff intimacy with DP due to this?

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Justinegh · 04/09/2025 15:34

DP and I are doing the deed a lot more regularly at the moment because we are ttc. This is usually in the evening when we first get into bed.

DP has a habit of going to the loo for several minutes before he joins me. I told him I find this off putting and unhygienic and asked if he can wait until after or go earlier in the day.

He just doesn’t see the issue and how someone would find it off putting.

Do you think I’m being unreasonable or would this annoy you too? It just seems stupid timing when you know you are going to be intimate with someone. It’s not a one off, it’s most occasions.

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toxicjobrec · 04/09/2025 19:27

SeaAndStars · 04/09/2025 17:52

I always give my backside a swill in the sink after a poo despite it having got me in trouble at work on more than one occasion.

please tell me how this has got you into trouble. I'm in stitches here imagining your colleagues seeing you hovered over the sink trying to clean your bum.

FieryA · 04/09/2025 19:22

Not sure what's wrong in using the toilet before. Surely he'll be uncomfortable if he tried to control it. I often go to the toilet, brush etc. and feel fully fresh and ready for intimacy. I'd rather not be trying to control a fart or be worried that I might have to stop half way!

seanconneryseyebrow · 04/09/2025 19:21

I feel like I live in a parallel universe. It wouldn’t even occur to me to know to care if my fella had a short before sex. I mean why would I care? I’m not shagging him up the arse or eating his arse so why is it any relevance to me?

kkLeeNex · 04/09/2025 19:21

This thread is really stressing me out. DH and I have "an appointment" for sex tomorrow morning ( yes yes I know, where's the spontaneity?) as all 3 kids(including 2 very clued-in teenagers) will be out of the house and we're both off work!!!! Really looking forward to our morning together... until now 😬 Suddenly, I'm worried about poo!!!!! I'll probably try and poo first-thing and then shower. What about him? Should I ask him what his plan is?!!

Localres · 04/09/2025 19:18

This thread is amazing. Lordy if some posters got time travelled back to the thousands of years in which humanity managed to procreate without showers (or indeed loo roll) eh?

it’s all a 2025 reverse version of Jonathan Swift’s Celia poem which is all faux horror at the discovery that his adored has normal human anatomy (“Celia, Celia, Celia shits!”)

(almost raising the tone … and yet not).

Swift, "The Lady's Dressing Room"

https://jacklynch.net/Texts/dressing.html

Dontsayyouloveme · 04/09/2025 19:18

NRFT but men have hairy bum holes.. no one wants cling ons flying around during sex!!

Fargo79 · 04/09/2025 19:13

NoKnit · 04/09/2025 15:57

I already feel sorry for the child you are yet to conceive. Not because of your issue with your husbands toilet habits but more the need to post it on the internet

Should we also feel sorry for your children that you felt the need to make your snarky comment? Or should we all - you included - accept that we are all using the same forum and do not occupy any sort of high ground over anyone else?

P.S. it doesn't take much common sense or basic decency to realise that TTC can be fraught with issues for many women. Making completely uncalled-for comments about whether or not women deserve to be able to have babies with nasty remarks about "feeling sorry" for their future children is disgraceful. Imagine how that could feel if OP struggles to conceive.

CoffeeCakeAndALattePlease · 04/09/2025 19:08

I think there’s a difference between spontaneous sex, where you’re in the moment and not thinking about washing etc.

If at home, going to bed with the intention of having sex is different.

if we just do it spontaneously that’s one thing, but if it’s planned then we both freshen up first.

Newsenmum · 04/09/2025 19:08

I mean it’s definitely a bit of a turn off. Can he not do it earlier in the day?

Kreepture · 04/09/2025 19:07

EmeraldShamrock000 · 04/09/2025 19:06

He needs to shower afterwards, more fool you having a baby with a man with filthy habits.
He could have a poo fetish.

That's a bit of a str

yeah.. no. not going there... not when it involves assholes.

SusiQ18472638 · 04/09/2025 19:07

Who are all these people who can’t wipe their arses properly and need a full shower after taking a shit?! Baffling

Imisscoffee2021 · 04/09/2025 19:06

Justinegh · 04/09/2025 15:46

Sorry, yes I meant he is using the loo (no.2) and openly says he is making sure he isn’t bloated. He doesn’t shower after, no.

Yeah that's gross, and my husband wouldn't like me just using the loo for a poo before having sex either tbh, it's hard enough to keep the romance when TTC let alone knowing someone's just had a poo and didn't shower after it at least.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 04/09/2025 19:06

He needs to shower afterwards, more fool you having a baby with a man with filthy habits.
He could have a poo fetish.

Kreepture · 04/09/2025 19:04

spot the people who've never had impromptu sex in the middle of a field at midnight after a weekend of camping.

Oh no. You must not poo, fart, sneeze or come at me with any sort of sweat or smell.. you must be primped and powdered, and sprayed with the finest of perfumes like a pretty french poodle before i will deign to allow you to put your penis within me.

Calliopespa · 04/09/2025 19:03

Shewasafaireh · 04/09/2025 18:57

“Ma’am, how very dare you!”

That's exactly the look I was envisaging.

JifNtGif · 04/09/2025 19:03

Ablondiebutagoody · 04/09/2025 16:12

Brown to pink

Exquese me ? What on earth are you talking about. Are you concerned that OP DP (pun intended) is having a shit then finishing by quickly fucking his own bumhole with his penis before he does the deed with OP?

sweetpickle2 · 04/09/2025 19:02

Calliopespa · 04/09/2025 19:00

Ah! I hadn't thought of seated.

I was imagining standing up for some reason ... maybe bending forwards ... It all seemed quite inefficient.

This reminds me of the thread on here where I learned that some people wipe their arses stood up and facing towards the toilet.

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 04/09/2025 19:02

Calliopespa · 04/09/2025 18:45

Which direction would you fire it in? Upwards or forwards - which seems to me it might blast everything in the direction of a nasty uti.

I suppose downwards?

Edited

Down and backwards according to RubySquid.

Crazycatladywithnocats · 04/09/2025 19:02

CaroleLandis · 04/09/2025 17:15

I’m picturing you laying seductively on the bed wearing a silk nightie, a scented candle on your nightstand and the lights are dimmed, you flick your hair and lick your lips and he appears from the en-suite, naked from the waist down, flapping his hands and holding his nose, ‘ Bloody hell love, the size of that Jobby, I’ll have to get the plumber out in the morning, I think I’ve stunk the whole street out…’ 😩

😂😂

Calliopespa · 04/09/2025 19:00

RubySquid · 04/09/2025 18:55

If you ever transit through the middle east pop in the airport toilets , Doha, Dubai, Amman etc all have them lol.

I have one at home ( although we had to put some special plumbing in) as well as much prefer to wash that wipe with a bit of tissue or ruin the environment with wet wipes.

And aim down and backwards while seated lol

Ah! I hadn't thought of seated.

I was imagining standing up for some reason ... maybe bending forwards ... It all seemed quite inefficient.

Notmyreality · 04/09/2025 19:00

nomas · 04/09/2025 15:57

He should shower. I’m guessing he doesn’t use a bidet shower or bum gun?

He needs to gun his bum with a bum gun before he guns the bum of his bum chum with his bum gun.

sweetpickle2 · 04/09/2025 19:00

Firstly- this thread needs to go into Classics. Crying laughing here.

Secondly- putting a pin in the total lack of spontaneity between co-habiting couples when talking about a mandatory pre-shag shower... when I was single, I would quite frequently either go on a date after work and sleep with the person, and I would have definitely dumped at some point during the day and not been able to shower between that and the date. It certainly didn't stop me getting about!

BananaPeels · 04/09/2025 19:00

Didimum · 04/09/2025 18:56

The amount of Mumsnetters who are terrified of human bodies is truly astounding.

The amount of mumsnetters who don’t live in small properties with teenagers and are simply grateful to get 2 mins of privacy to do anything remotely intimate with your partner that you will take them any which way they come! 🤣😂

Shewasafaireh · 04/09/2025 18:57

Calliopespa · 04/09/2025 18:54

Imagine the affronted looks on a cat's face or the yowl of a dog if you fired a bum gun at their anus.

“Ma’am, how very dare you!”

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Notmyreality · 04/09/2025 18:57

Didimum · 04/09/2025 18:56

The amount of Mumsnetters who are terrified of human bodies is truly astounding.

Indeed

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