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To ask if my boyfriend doing this last night is ‘normal’?

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Helenaslide · 08/09/2026 15:45

I was having a bath last night and he came in and used the loo (no.2). I shouted and asked what he was playing at and he said he has always done this with partners and vice versa as have plenty of people he knows. He stayed for a couple of minutes until he had finished and left laughing.

For context - together 4 months, he was staying at mine last night.

He has said he won’t do it again but I feel a bit humiliated by it tbh.

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Mary46 · 12/09/2026 19:40

There was a clip on Holly's insta/podcast the guy got out of the bath took a * and then back in the bath. Why are women putting up with this. Super gross!! They must be zero respect in these relationships. Its disgusting.

SailingOnAWave · 12/09/2026 19:28

I've only ever crapped in front of my husband of 25 years once and that's when I was giving birth!

Schoolgatelassie · 12/09/2026 19:26

Is that not an Ick ?

gamerchick · 12/09/2026 19:13
  • wonders how many poo stories are on this thread.
House12 · 12/09/2026 18:37

This is terminal in my book.

MrsSlocombesCat · 12/09/2026 18:32

This happened to me. I never got over it. We’re not together anymore.

Hereagain2 · 12/09/2026 18:24

Blurgh

Gross

SunnyOchreNewt · 12/09/2026 18:21

With two alternative toilets available? He's trying to mark his territory, like an animal. Please tell us you have ditched this disgusting creature.
p.s. What will be next I wonder: Dutch Ovens, Scratch and Sniff, Snot Rockets, Belching the Alphabet?

Razor1965 · 12/09/2026 18:03

It was a test. Been with my partner 15 yes and not needed to do this. If he was apologetic, omg, need to go, that's one thing. Nah, he wants to normalise it

ForCandidDuck · 12/09/2026 05:31

ForCandidDuck · 12/09/2026 05:30

Did I read some where you have 3 toilets? My bf will use the toilet when I'm in the bath however he has ibs and I'm okay with it (discussion we've had) we live in a flat and have one toilet. It's taken us a couple of years to get to this stage. If we had 3 toilets he definitely would chose to go on the one I'm having a bath in!

Wouldn't chose I meant!

ForCandidDuck · 12/09/2026 05:30

Helenaslide · 08/09/2026 15:45

I was having a bath last night and he came in and used the loo (no.2). I shouted and asked what he was playing at and he said he has always done this with partners and vice versa as have plenty of people he knows. He stayed for a couple of minutes until he had finished and left laughing.

For context - together 4 months, he was staying at mine last night.

He has said he won’t do it again but I feel a bit humiliated by it tbh.

Did I read some where you have 3 toilets? My bf will use the toilet when I'm in the bath however he has ibs and I'm okay with it (discussion we've had) we live in a flat and have one toilet. It's taken us a couple of years to get to this stage. If we had 3 toilets he definitely would chose to go on the one I'm having a bath in!

Lifesd · 11/09/2026 00:45

What a vile man - and I’d there were other toilets available then this is 10x worse - I hope you dump him.

FairAmberEagle · 11/09/2026 00:27

It's not normal, don't see him this Friday.

Borracha · 10/09/2026 19:54

Ewww no. My husband and I are very open and relaxed about our bodily functions but even after 20 years together, this would be a hard no. If he was really that desperate, I would expect him to tell me so I could get out the bath and leave the room.

Sallywag134 · 10/09/2026 16:26

Been with my husband for 26 years, married for 20, never ever has he come in the bathroom whilst im in there for a shit. There have been times when h has knocked on the door and asked if he could have a wee but he doesn’t want to shit in front of me any more than I want him to. Gross!!

UnctuousUnicorns · 10/09/2026 15:45

dreamiesformolly · 10/09/2026 15:13

When I was a kid we lived in one of those houses that had the toilet in a separate little room to the bathroom. I can never understand why that's not a more common arrangement, much more practical. (Although tbf the toilet room needed a sink in it for hand-washing, there wasn't one so you still needed to go into the bathroom to wash your hands, bit of a design flaw there!)

I agree that that's much more practical, but at the time we lived in a terraced built before WWI so a sole bathroom with bath, toilet and sink was all that we - and millions of other people - had. I now live in a thirties semi which also only has one bathroom with the toilet in it. DH and I have raised our three DC in this house. So long as everyone respects each other's privacy and is considerate, it's fine. It's when people aren't respectful and considerate that problems arise.

My DH grew up in a 60s semi with the same toilet and bathroom arrangement as you describe. Like you, I remember thinking when I visited that they could have done with having a little washbasin in the toilet room.

Ashhh56 · 10/09/2026 15:16

dreamiesformolly · 10/09/2026 15:09

DH's ex apparently used to leave the door open when she was taking a dump in their ensuite and expect him to chat to her while she was doing it! Apparently he was 'uptight' for wanting her to close the door... 😣

There's a reason these people are exs 😂😅 absolutely revolting 🤢😂

dreamiesformolly · 10/09/2026 15:13

UnctuousUnicorns · 08/09/2026 17:26

Same, I was born 1970. Not once did my mother, father or brother ever use the sole toilet in the sole bathroom in our house while I was taking a bath. We would always check if someone needed the loo before we got into the bath. From age seven I was bolting the bathroom door for privacy - this was seen as entirely normal for us even back then.

When I was a kid we lived in one of those houses that had the toilet in a separate little room to the bathroom. I can never understand why that's not a more common arrangement, much more practical. (Although tbf the toilet room needed a sink in it for hand-washing, there wasn't one so you still needed to go into the bathroom to wash your hands, bit of a design flaw there!)

dreamiesformolly · 10/09/2026 15:09

Ashhh56 · 08/09/2026 22:41

I'd have got out of the bath immediately on realising what he was doing and ended it tbh. That's grim. It was bad enough when my ex would shit in the en-suite and I'd hear the plopping/farts 😭🤢

Could not imagine shagging anyone I'd just visibly seen shitting and wiping his arse. Did he wash his hands?

The mental image would absolutely haunt me.

DH's ex apparently used to leave the door open when she was taking a dump in their ensuite and expect him to chat to her while she was doing it! Apparently he was 'uptight' for wanting her to close the door... 😣

CruelsummerTS · 10/09/2026 13:55

Helenaslide · 08/09/2026 16:26

I have three toilets. I was in the main bathroom, there is also an en-suite and downstairs loo.

Reading the replies has made me realise it was likely deliberate/making a point.

He Chose to have a poo next to you in the bath despite other toilets in the house.

100% LTB

HAPPILYMARRIEDSINCE2012 · 10/09/2026 13:54

porridgewithsalt · 08/09/2026 15:55

Hmm. I'm married 20 years and we would do this. However neither of us mind. If you do mind and he doesn't respect that going forward, that's an issue. So it's less about the action and more about his respect for your viewpoints and preferences. If you explained you didn't like it and he apologised and said he wouldn't do it again then that's ok. If he deliberately poos in your presence to piss you off then it's a dumping offence

This

goingtotown · 10/09/2026 13:41

Extremely unpleasant. Lock the door, tell him that’ll be the first & last time he does that.

Thegirlwhowent · 10/09/2026 13:24

Goatsarebest · 10/09/2026 13:11

Goats don't. Female goats do what is called a submission urination where they pee right in front of you with eye contact followed by a poo and tail upright. This means they trust you and respect your position in the herd. They will wag their tail of they really like you.
Maybe this is what he was doing. Indicating he really likes OP.😅

I don't think any animal feels shame - that's just us anthropomorphizing. We can train some of them to do it in a certain place and not in others.

Goatsarebest · 10/09/2026 13:11

workshy46 · 08/09/2026 15:50

Not normal , in my entire life no one has taken a dump in front of me .. even animals feel shame when they do it. Yuk

Goats don't. Female goats do what is called a submission urination where they pee right in front of you with eye contact followed by a poo and tail upright. This means they trust you and respect your position in the herd. They will wag their tail of they really like you.
Maybe this is what he was doing. Indicating he really likes OP.😅

PickledMuffin · 10/09/2026 13:02

Eugh! no no from me!