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To break up over toilet hygiene (or lack thereof)?

313 replies

wobblychicken · 05/01/2025 17:44

Name changed for this one.

So I've been seeing a new chap for several months - my first relationship since divorcing over three years ago, and with a lot of dead-end online dates in the interim. I.e. quite a big deal for me to have entered into. Lovely chap, very like-minded, considerate high-achieving professional, seems into me, etc. - and the relationship is exclusive.

I need a sense of perspective on this issue - not the only emergent niggle in the relationship, but the most "in your face" (as it were) in recent weeks.

Most of our "sleepover" dates are at mine for various reasons. I've noticed bad toilet hygiene at mine in terms of weeing on the seat / leaving poo stains, which I wasn't overly impressed with, but didn't say anything at the time. Last week I was at his - not the first occasion, but this round time the toilet / bathroom was pretty grim. Not Trainspotter bad or anything - but think piss and pubes caked into the ceramic and bristles / toothpaste residue all over the sink. The rest of his place is cluttered but clean enough.

I was again due to visit him at his today, and - after some agonising on the subject - sent a message during the week that he'd need to give the bathroom a once over first, to which he replied already on the list. And he did clean up, and even made a point of asking me if it was acceptable when I arrived.

Later that afternoon, we were taking it to the bedroom and I made a quick pit stop - only to find massive poo stains down the pan and wee over the seat from a visit he'd made in the meantime. It's hard for me to address these things directly, but I basically came out, said it was a massive passion killer and that I didn't expect to find the toilet like this at his or at mine, and if he wanted bedroom activity he'd need to factor in bathroom activity. He did clean it, apologised (blaming not having his glasses on - he did have his glasses on) and said my views were fair enough. I left soon after without re-initiating any sexual activity.

It's not the mess in itself that bothers me - I'm not a clean freak, and have literally used some of the worst toilets known to man in my time. It's the lack of respect it indicates - especially coming from someone so otherwise clearly intelligent / senior, etc. and not otherwise seemingly unhygienic. And the fact that I'd already pointed this out once before coming round - which is already unattractive enough to have to do towards a grown man. In his shoes I'd personally be dying of embarrassment, not making a mess of things that very same afternoon. Unless he was doing it deliberately to make a point right back to me, but that doesn't seem like him at all.

Either way, whether deliberate or just obliviousness, it's not attractive. I made a vow at the end of my last relationship that I wouldn't tolerate man children / incompetence (whether strategic or otherwise), so maybe I'm overthinking this one - but yeah it's irked me a lot.

Please do tell me if I'm being unreasonable on this one! I wouldn't end things "only" cause of this, but genuinely not sure if I'm just being a massive priss on this. TIA!

OP posts:
roses2 · 05/01/2025 18:15

Jojimoji · 05/01/2025 17:51

The type of person who's careless enough
to leave shit stains and pubes on full view in the bathroom will be careless in other areas of their life too.

Exactly. My first thought would be sex is off the agenda until he’s had a thorough shower of all his crevices!!

nonbinaryfinery · 05/01/2025 18:15

HoundsOfHelfire · 05/01/2025 18:04

Be honest with him, give him a chance to change

Let's face it, he would make an effort for about a week, and then revert to old ways. He's a man not a child.

cannaecookrisotto · 05/01/2025 18:16

Reading these replies is making me very thankful my OH doesn't leave shit stains on the sheets or drip shitty sweat on me. How are these men raised?! Jfc.

OP, you have 2 options really.

  1. Tell him that his shitty toilet is giving you the ick and you're thinking of ending it unless he improves.
  1. Throw this one back and find one with a clean bog.

Personally, I'd go for option 2 because once I've got the ick it would be game over.

Cattery · 05/01/2025 18:16

SevenMoon · 05/01/2025 18:08

How did he get wee on the seat AND shit stains in one 'sitting'? Does he shit standing up?

Ha ha ha ha 🤣🤣🤣

Welshwhales · 05/01/2025 18:17

Yuk, I wonder what his underwear is like 🤢

wanderlustwherever · 05/01/2025 18:19

TomatoSandwiches · 05/01/2025 17:58

I would no longer find him attractive at all so there would be no point continuing this.
He probably hasn't been washing his hands either 🤢

Or wiping his bum thoroughly if he’s sloppy with the things other people have to see 🤢🤢

username0763 · 05/01/2025 18:20

I think you're completely reasonable to dump him over this. It means that if you ever lived together you'd need to clean up after him and he doesn't respect you enough to clean before you come over.

2025uk · 05/01/2025 18:20

It’s not just the toilet is it? He would not be clean enough for sex if he had just made that mess.

Some people do have awful toilet habits and horrible hygiene (men in my experience.)

Cattery · 05/01/2025 18:21

imagine the pants, the dressing gown, the sheets. Just a thought… and why did he clean the loo before your visit then leave poo stains down it once you’d got there? It’s like marking his territory but even cats cover up their business

comedycentral · 05/01/2025 18:22

Absolutely foul 🤢

Dterun · 05/01/2025 18:23

Why have none of the 7% who voted you're being unreasonable commented? Come on 7% please tell us why.
Edited: now 6%

DailyEnergyCrisis · 05/01/2025 18:24

Really horrible. I’d be worried he’d leave shit on other people’s toilets when introducing him to friends and family- I couldn’t handle the embarrassment of even the thought of it.

SoNiceToComeHomeTo · 05/01/2025 18:24

This is too much especially after you warned him. If you're sharing a toilet with anyone at all you need to make sure you leave it clean each time. It's basic manners.

Joelle84 · 05/01/2025 18:24

AMurderofMurderingCrows · 05/01/2025 17:58

It would make me think about how clean he is. Does he wipe fully. When he washes does he clean his penis properly.

That would worry me for any P in V action.

And I'm not a clean freak, I've just read about too many manky men dripping sweat mixed with shit onto their partner during sex 🤢

Jesus, I've made myself queasy just typing that.

Agree! If he cant keep his loo clean and shit stain free, i doubt he cleans his nob properly! Eww how do men not get wee in the loo. My 11 year old can 🤷🏻‍♀️

id have to consider if this is one you throw back, but let him know why

Hunglikeapolevaulter · 05/01/2025 18:24

I know that this is me being a bit precious but I wouldn't want to shag someone who had been for a massive dump and not had a wash afterwards.

NessaSmith · 05/01/2025 18:24

I'd give it one more opportunity but if it happened again i'd be third time and out.

SoNiceToComeHomeTo · 05/01/2025 18:25

Dterun · 05/01/2025 18:23

Why have none of the 7% who voted you're being unreasonable commented? Come on 7% please tell us why.
Edited: now 6%

Edited

I was the last-minute 1%!
Yes come on, 6%-ers, why????

AInightingale · 05/01/2025 18:25

Once went out briefly with this man who passed 'motions' that the toilet couldn't cope with. I daresay there is some Viz-type name for them, but they wouldn't flush, no matter what. So he left them there, in the bottom of the bowl, and seemed to think it more funny than anything else.

Then he would make the effort to break them up with a toilet brush, which he PUT BACK IN THE HOLDER THING in that state. No bleach, no steeping etc.

Some men are just foul and frankly you are better off with a cat.

gamerchick · 05/01/2025 18:25

You've seen your future if you move in with him OP. This is the way he is.

Who doesn't clean the bog when they have someone coming over. If it's not on their radar, it'll never be on their radar.

FeralWoman · 05/01/2025 18:27

@AInightingale He should have had a poo knife.

AInightingale · 05/01/2025 18:27

FeralWoman · 05/01/2025 18:27

@AInightingale He should have had a poo knife.

There is such a thing?!

nonbinaryfinery · 05/01/2025 18:28

Dterun · 05/01/2025 18:23

Why have none of the 7% who voted you're being unreasonable commented? Come on 7% please tell us why.
Edited: now 6%

Edited

They're probably minging.

Fleurdalys · 05/01/2025 18:28

Get rid
He isn't going to change
Embarrassed for him
Urrghhhh

Middlemarch123 · 05/01/2025 18:30

LTB&B
(Leave the bastard and bathroom)

BettyBardMacDonald · 05/01/2025 18:30

TomatoSandwiches · 05/01/2025 17:58

I would no longer find him attractive at all so there would be no point continuing this.
He probably hasn't been washing his hands either 🤢

This.

If there is one thing I cannot stand it's slovenly hygiene and disgusting bathroom habits. I hate to be this frank but: what must his body be like after a bowel movement if he's so careless with leaving shit stains for you to see? Would he expect a BJ with uncleaned faeces on his arse? Aggggggghhhhh, the thought is revolting. Does he wash his hands before preparing food and drink?

I get immersed in projects and sometimes as a result my house gets cluttered but my bedding, bathroom and kitchen are always pristine.