Husband stuck in bathroom after door jammed, any tips to open it?

[DoorJam]

My husband is stuck in the bathroom - the door has jammed!

Does anyone know any tricks for unsticking doors?! I’ve tried googling but can’t work it out. He’s been in there over half an hour now.

Maybe it’s me but I would be more stressed if I was locked in and someone was consulting MN for a solution!

Assuming he had his phone and Netflix, he could be pretty comfy for a while.

Well, I wasn’t having much success with Google so I thought actual people might be more helpful

Advice am I being unreasonable due to illness

I've been unwell for the past few days, bedridden with an awful chest infection.

I work 60 hours a week and have two children that to various activities each week, life is pretty busy,

I've been married for 20 years and for the last few it feels like my husband has checked out of our relationship, he's a good dad when it comes to the practice things but doesn't show much emotion warmth to either me or the children,

In the last few days of being bedridden he hasn't once check in on me, not once asked if I need anything he's just left me to rot, luckily the kids have been lovely and have made sure I e got drinks and have taken my medication, I was feeling a little better this morning so asked him why he hasn't even checked in, he told me that I need to think about others not just myself,

That's hurt more than the not checking in to be honest, I'm constantly considering others like most mums juggling everything to make sure everyone has what they need when they need it,

I do love him but I don't think I can spend the next 40 years of my life with someone so selfish, he considers himself somewhat of a hero and portrays this to others but with me and the kids he's grumpy and miserable 99% of the time, I'm scared of ending the relationship because I don't want the kids to be upset but I really can't see this working

Luckily it’s a downstairs bathroom so I was able to pass him tools through the window. Thinking about it now I could’ve passed him his phone too 😂

Alas, this was 40 years ago. No phone, no Netflix.
I was downstairs watching TV waiting for the cavalry in the form of a fireman friend.

There's no hope, concentrate on sourcing a new husband.

That happened to me years ago. As it was a fire door I ripped it apart otherwise I'd have been there over a bank holiday weekend with the kettle on. Hope he made it out safely.

You may want to ask MNHQ to delete your comment and start a new post as you won’t get many replies by posting mid-thread!

I am now 66 and trying to get fitter via the gym and Parkrun. (Have only done two.)

I am now 'only' 14 stone and a size 18. I did my first Parkrun wearing a pair of black cycling shorts, black running vest, a pair of black knee supports and a black ankle support. Oh...and my hair tied back in a ponytail.

The look I was aiming for was Lara Croft.

The finished result was more like 1960s era Pansy Potter.

P.S. Indiana Jones for the win.

I did my final stint of supply teaching last year.

The school where I was working had to change the locks on the toilet doors. The boys had discovered that you could use a 2p coin to unlock the doors from the outside (a safety feature).

There was an incident where one young man was left exposed to the world when her pals decided to play a 'prank'.

Apparently, the new locks can still be opened from the outside, but only by the jannies.

@WearyAuldWumman 💪💪

What, husband?

It's not called Parentsnet though.

Sounds like that was very stressful for you .

Booting a door open needs to be done in line with the way the door is set to open - unless you are to completely wreck the hinges and the door frame.

Some people here aren’t even parents.

I’d be sodding annoyed if the person stuck inside the bathroom smashed the door down breaking the door and the frame.

It’s happened here, for future reference if anyone is reading this faced with the same situation, we levered ours open with a large screwdriver. Our downstairs loo doesn’t even have a window!

Think of the fun you could have had if you had an axe and had used it on the bathroom door and recreated the scene from the Shining

“Here’s Johnny”

🤣🤣🤣

Hilarious. Presumably it would have been just as funny for the husband to do it if the wife was locked in?

And yet it has both a board specifically for Mumsnetters without children, and a Dadsnet board (not related to the website alluded to upthread afaik). Both, obviously, created by MNHQ. It’s open to any adult who can post within talk guidelines.

I'm guessing you haven't seen The Shining.

You’re great craic

Many many times - I understood the reference, just the context wasn’t funny

I'm sorry about this @DreamyAmberMoose .

You need rest and he sounds awful