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Men sudden urge to sit on toilet just as ur about to leave

18 replies

jxnx · 06/11/2018 14:19

Seriously just out of shower has achieved nothing all day and suddenly needs a 15mins toilet just as I say let's go drives me insane!

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Ophelialovescats · 06/11/2018 14:30

Eh...this is not men in general just your partner.
But, it sounds like what my children did when they were pre schoolers!

jxnx · 06/11/2018 14:49

My dp, df and teenage son maybe it's me lol

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Ophelialovescats · 06/11/2018 15:02

Maybe it is!

OwThatsGottaHurt · 06/11/2018 15:04

This is my DH too. Drives me nuts!!

QwertySmalls · 06/11/2018 15:05

And bursting to go just before you get home even though you have been past 5 toilets when outside.

PlateOfBiscuits · 06/11/2018 15:06

Not men for me as my DP does it. Also if we’re about to sit down to a meal and when I need to use the bathroom.

So annoying.

SputnikBear · 06/11/2018 15:08

My DH is the same. Drives me nuts! He knows we’re going out so why can’t he go to the loo 20 mins before? But no, he waits till the second we’re about to walk out of the door and then needs to go while DC and I have to sit there waiting with our coats on.

Notonthestairs · 06/11/2018 15:54

Yes. My DH does this. Every single time.

I'm going to put in a chair in my porch so I can at least sit down whilst we wait. Maybe I need some magazines in there too. Or a tv.

HiGunny · 06/11/2018 15:54

Yep my DH does this too. And often when I announce dinner is ready. Drives me mad.

SachaStark · 06/11/2018 15:58

My DH has a compulsion to clean his teeth whenever we are due to leave the house, no matter how many times he has already brushed that day, nor even if we are just going to Asda. The teeth must be brushed!

Obviously, lovely to have such great oral hygiene, but he takes a full seven minutes every time he does this! (Yes, I've timed him)

Dontgiveamonkeys1350 · 06/11/2018 16:05

Faffing. It’s called faffing. My mil is a world class faffer. My husband was when we met. I made him change. It was either that or I left Grin

needsanewname · 06/11/2018 16:06

My DH does it too!

BeautyGoesToBenidorm · 06/11/2018 16:09

Mine does it just as dinner's being put on the table too. Every. Single. Fucking. Time.

queenofthemountains · 06/11/2018 16:10

My friends husband does this, she just leaves now with or without him.

Happypie · 06/11/2018 16:11

Mine does it with hand washing. We are ready to walk out the door and he will turn back to go upstairs to wash his hands. Absolutely infuriating.

DanglyBangly · 06/11/2018 16:14

It might be because as a child he was told to go to the toilet before leaving the house. So now his brain is conditioned: leaving the house = going to the toilet.

IHeartKingThistle · 06/11/2018 16:38

You need to read the story 'The Way up to Heaven' by Roald Dahl!

isseywithcats · 06/11/2018 16:53

yep thats my other half he will ask if im ready and just as i put my coat on to walk out the door he disapears up the stairs for the next ten minutes and i end up sitting there waiting fully dressed for outside for him to reapear why didnt he go when he asked if i was ready

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