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Do you watch your partner on the loo?

57 replies

MamaLazarou · 10/05/2011 12:27

For the love of god - WHY?

I've lost count of the number of times I have seen posts on Mumsnet by women describing the face their husband pulls when he is wiping his arse, etc. One woman recently told how her husband took his trousers off for a poo.

Am I unusual in staying out of the bathroom while my beloved 'downloads his brownware'?

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atswimtwolengths · 10/05/2011 20:37

What, they DISCUSS it as well, TheSecondComing? Oh god, I can't think of anything worse than some man you're supposed to fancy doing that and talking about it in front of you. Ugh!!!

usualsuspect · 10/05/2011 20:40

Never ever

Famouslastwords · 10/05/2011 20:44

Yuk no way! He stinks so badly I don't even want to be in the same house.

I'll never forget a hotel we stayed in when we had only been together a short while, in Amsterdam. It was very modern and the en suite was like a glass box next to the room.

Not even frosted glass.
Not the most romantic experience! Grin

TheSecondComing · 10/05/2011 20:52

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usualsuspect · 10/05/2011 21:11

Does he TSC? ..thats a bit weird Grin

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usualsuspect · 10/05/2011 21:30

mind you, my dp does comment if hes been more than once in a day or not at his usual time

weirdos

2rebecca · 10/05/2011 23:28

Very grateful for bloke who closes the door and does not discuss his bowels or enquire after mine. I also find blokes who take an intimate interest in their wives periods creepy and will discuss how painful/ heavy etc their periods are. Very weird, although suspect their wives see their periods as a shared experience to have long chats to them about it in the first place.
I'm not prudish but I do think to keep the sexual desire in a marriage you have to have a bit of privacy re bodily functions.

ImChangingMyNameToDaddy · 11/05/2011 00:18

Me and DH will talk to each other having a wee, like if im inthe bath or he is and if we need the loo we'll come in, but poo? No way!!!

deepheat · 11/05/2011 07:59

Could never watch DW take a dump. Tbh, when we moved in together it came as a bit of a shock that she could ever do something as rank as taking a dump. Not sure what I thought she did Hmm.

However, two DCs down the line and one particularly nasty episode of pregga-piles later, combined with a nasty infection for me in that region we did go through a couple of months where some of our conversation was arguably worse than actually watching the other do their business. We still don't though. Because it is wrong. And because when your DP takes off their kinickers/pants/boxers/whatever you just want 'nice' thoughts and not distressing flashbacks!

Once heard an interview with the Northern DJ bloke who is married to the fragrant Tessa Daly from the Dancing Programme on BBC1 and he said that they are never in the bathroom together because they like to maintain that mystery and respect about each other. I'd imagine that this is much easier when you probably have about 20 bathrooms, but I thought it was a nice idea anyway. That said, a slightly snarky bit of me looks forward to the day when they stop being beautiful people and have to deal with the fact that everything goes south, bodily control wanes and they have to start clearing up after each other....

missmiss · 11/05/2011 08:13

We have no shame when weeing but the bathroom door stays firmly clOsed for number twos. DP has been known to try to watch me change a tampin, though. He's fascinated.

Buda · 11/05/2011 08:27

Ugh. No way. No no no.

And he would hate it too.

In our house now (rented) he uses an ensuite loo in the spare bedroom that has a smoked glass door with clear glass around the edges. It wasn't designed as a bedroom - was meant to be a gym and actually has a blocked up sauna in and plumbing for a plunge-tub thingie! He gets antsy if he realises I have walked past while he is taking a pee.

My bathroom has full windows into the walk-in-wardrobe. He has on occasion gone in there while I am on the loo. Cue lots of ughs from him and get outs from me!

virginiasmonalogue · 11/05/2011 08:34

Oh dear, we poo in front of eachother. Rank I know but oh well......

gawdonbennett · 11/05/2011 09:40

It could be worse. Imagine being married to Paula Radcliffe.
She did in front of millions.

diddl · 11/05/2011 09:52

Well, I don´t actually watch, but we are often in the bathroom at the same time.

Sometimes he´s on the toilet & I´m getting dried after a shower.

I´m not going to leave the bathroom just because he´s on the toilet & vice versa!

Unless advised by the person on the toilet that vacating might be wiseGrin

morleylass · 11/05/2011 10:10

Same as diddl, we are often in the bathroom at the same time so it happens, but we don't actually make an event out of it!

2rebecca · 11/05/2011 11:41

Why not lock the door if someone comes in regularly when in the shower?
I do feel an adult should be able to wait until you have finished in the bathroom, but we always check the other folk don't want the toilet before going in as we only have 1 toilet which is in the bathroom.
It maybe depends on how you were brought up. I was never brought up to walk in on other people in the bathroom and to knock on door if you need in urgently and it's occupied, and find the way some people regard the bathroom as a sort of communal room other people can wander in and out of when in use, like a kitchen rather odd.

mumblechum1 · 11/05/2011 11:45
diddl · 11/05/2011 12:25

If we don´t want anyone to come in, we do lock the door.

But tbh, it doesn´t bother either of us either way!

He´s seen me give birth, held my hair back whilst I´ve been throwing up, neither of us are bothered by seeing the other on the toilet, in the shower, getting dried.

primrose22 · 11/05/2011 14:48

Never! We are both very private about such things and I like it that way! My long very happily married parents wouldn't dream of such behaviour and I personally think its a positive thing.
My friend has to leave the door unlocked when she showers, as she knows that both her ds's and dp will turn up for a poo - charming!!!

2rebecca · 11/05/2011 14:58

Why doesn't your friend just tell them to go and have their poos before she goes in the shower and then lock the door and tell them to wait, or change her shower time if it coincides with household bowel evacuation time. They are all mad.

2rebecca · 11/05/2011 15:00

Plus what is she doing in the shower if 3 people can have a poo in the time it takes her for 1 shower? Does each skin cell get special attention or something?

WhereonearthamI · 11/05/2011 15:08

My OH will lay in the bath for hours (and I do mean HOURS, he was in there for 10-2 the other night) so I do quite often use the toilet in his presence. I once went to a friend's house but decided I can't do that too often, and have been known to go in the garden, but quickly came to the conclusion that it's his choice not to move. I used to pull the shower curtain down but don't even do that. He can shut his eyes, put his fingers in his ears if he wants.

And yes, I've also changed a tampon in front of him, though that was because he wanted sex so I went to prepare myself, but then he burst into the bathroom to brush his teeth or something.....

OnlyWantsOne · 11/05/2011 15:12

Did Radcliffe really have a shit mid marathon??

I thought she had a wee??

Any hoo... I sometimes talk to DP through the bathroom door but I always ask if he's having a pop first - then leave!!!

LouMacca · 11/05/2011 15:16

That what I thought Only - surely it was only a wee??