How long is too long in the loo?

[lavenderbongo]

My DH and I have just had this discussion and I would like to canvass peoples opinions on this issue.

DH is very regular and spends 30-45min in the loo every evening. This annoys me beyond belief as its eating in to our only time together during the day. He takes stuff to read and even his laptop in sometimes. I just don't understand why it takes so long. Surely 45 minutes is over the top. I am lucky if I get 5 minutes in there before one of the kids interrupts.

So what do people think is 45 minutes too long?

A week, A week is too long in the loo

Ooh the Tiger store have brough out a "toilet fishpond" and "toilet golf" for people like DH. Have already bought some for rellys and friends that we know well. .

DH is like this. I like to get in and out as quickly as possible but DH just sits in there reading. I seems to be something a lot of men do. I would prefer to sit on a comfy sofa to read than a cold bog seat but each to their own.

DH also ALWAYS seems to need a poo just when I need his help with something too

He insists he does need the loo but I am very dubious!

Oh and he has an app on his iphone called ipoo where you can see who else is pooing nearby and can chat with other people having a poo. That is seriously nasty. I am contemplating divorce

I have found banning any kind of reading material from the bath room especially "Poo"doku's has miraculously decreased the length of time my husband spends on the loo. It is still however at least three times longer than any normal human being should require.

My DH will sit there so long that his legs go numb , and takes in his netbook and his new fancy-pants phone. I draw the line at my good food magazines though [throwing-up emoticon].

My FIL takes his cup of tea and porridge in there on a morning, thats just unhygienic!

That would fuck me off royally. Now I don't feel quite so bad about DH regularly taking 10 mins for a no 2

What is it with men, why does their poo seem to move so slowly ? It takes me no more than a minute to have a number 2, and takes a couple of sheets of paper; how can it take men about 15 and half a roll ?

oh, and he doesn't take anything in with him. Maybe he's having a wank while he's in there

Oh and he takes months in the shower

Unless you have an illness - it makes no sense and IMO is just an 'escape'.

I think it's horrible that people take reading material/puzzles etc in there FGS - just go in, do the biz & get out (those with IBS etc excepted - grudgingly ).

I think if you are spending 45 mins in there (people with bowel probs obviously excepted) then you must merge from one toiletting episode into the following one without getting up and carrying on with life in between. At that rate you could be stuck in there for ever.

Roffle at "man science"
DH takes a loooong time too. Up to half an hour or more.
What annoys me is when he does this and knows I need to go too.
He does read in there. We used to have a magazine rack in the loo for him, but DS2 took to peeing in it.
Growing up there were 9 of us in the house, and only one toilet. I'm used to doing what needs to be done and getting out.

45 minutes is nuts. DH takes about twenty minutes in there on occasion and I have pointed out that it's not normal and maybe he needs to eat a lot more fibre. He thinks it is normal. I don't get it. What are they doing in there? If wanking, could they please do it elsewhere and at a more appropriate time?

I don't remember ever spending that long on the loo unless I was actually ill with D&V and getting off the loo would have been pointless because I'd have had to get straight back on it.

Also, how come I can have a bath, do my make up, moisturise my entire body with three different creams (face, body, feet), get dressed and dry my hair in half an hour where DH apparently takes more than that merely to have a shower and a rather sketchy shave?

45 min is a bit long, but I sometimes like some "me time" in the only room of the house that has a lock :)

loving the ipoo! Will have to tell DH about that.
During our "discussion" on this subject last night I said to DH that he will end up having spent years of his life on the loo. Is this really what he wants to have flashed before his eyes when the end comes. Just image after image of himself sitting on the loo?

I used to retreat to the loos when working in very dull office jobs (temping). I'd sit on the loo, sometimes have a little read, often have a little snooze even (the work was VERY boring). I'd stay there as long as I dared, or as long as I slept for.

Years on, I agree with Mousymouse that it's the only peaceful room in the house once you have children.

In our house it's the other way round. Ds and dh are both very efficient pooers. Dd has recently taken to doing wordsearches on the loo, and can easily be in there for 20 mins. And I go and do a 10 minute poo when I need to escape from the children for a bit because it's the only time they seem to accept that I can't stop what I'm doing to find an essential lego brick or the sellotape.

Don't some men enjoy the sensation of withholding their faeces for as long as possible - like an anal retentive thing.

sockmonkey wonderful idea - I shall have to suggest to ds that he might find out how high he can pee in the smallest room

it's obviously for privacy not for pooing, if he was alone in the house I don't imagine for a moment he would take his laptop into the toilet for a 45min poo.

laptop in toilet = porn pictures IMO.

I am betting your house is of a normal size/design where there is no other space where he could be undisturbed for 45mins - so get him out - oerhaps get a dog, and can get his downtime walking it (although that'd rather redcue his opportunities for a crafty tug)

45 minutes - he will get piles (haemorroids) !