S/O Bathroom habits

[thelongroad]

In the post about e cable guy pooping at Countthestars' house, somebody mentioned that she and her husband keep their bathroom habits private. This has me intrigued! From that thread MM seems to have pooping hangups.

I don't poop in front of H, like while he's in the batmroom,but it's not a secret! And if I have to go, I tell him I've gotta go poop, I'll be right back!

What is the pooping dynamic, if you will, with you and your H?

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Umm I guess we don't really announce it, but it's fairly obvious if one of us poops.

I only poop at home on the weekends, usually, so it's less of an issue for me than for him. He appears to poop as soon as he gets home from work, which is annoying because he's terrible at spraying and leaving the fan on

We don't really talk about it, but it's not really secret either. It would be hard to truly hide with the way our house is laid out!

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There was a multiple page thread on this some months ago.

I stated that we sometimes left the door open and 99% of the board thought that was disgusting.

[Deleted]

My sister won't even fart in front of her H. If she has to poop, she locks the door, which is bad because the other day she took a bath afterwards and a shelving unit fell on her head. Nobody could get in the door

She was ok, but the situation had me kind of "WTF".

[gumi]

I always go first thing in the morning in the office bathroom. My husband is still sleeping so its a non-issue. But sometimes when I need a break from parenting, I will say I have to poop and hide in the bathroom with my phone. Door closed, of course.

My husband leaves the door open...sometimes I find him in there pooping with both kids and the cat hanging out.

Ha, reminds me of when we first started living together and I found him in the bathroom with the most distressed look on his face. I asked if he was okay and he replied, "no, I feel like I am laying an egg!" Love that quote, lol

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[ladygrey]

We always shut the door, even for just peeing, and never talk about it. I have no desire to share my bathroom habits with DH and luckily he feels the same way. A little privacy and mystery is good for our marriage.

[bunnysmom]

We live in a small appartment so it would be impossible not to notice. Also I notice when DH goes because he has this annoying habit of taking out the toilet paper when he uses it and leaving the roll over the sink. 8-D

[SJ]

We do not talk about bathroom habits. I have no desire to learn about, nor am I ever curious about, DH's poop schedule/customs/whatever.

I had really bad hemorhoids and didn't tell him until I got really worried. Even then I emailed friends before talking to him (sorry friends).

Bathroom humor and discussion is just NMS.

[hski2349]

We don't poop with the door open. But often we do announce that we are going to the bathroom or a "don't go in there" kind of statement.

[Deleted]

I tell my husband about my pooping habits. If I have particularly big or unusual poop, I like to show him or describe it to him. This is probably the second biggest thing he would change about me. I do shut the door though. I don't want him to see me in the act!

He is very private. I think he is embarrassed when I ask what he is doing and he's pooping.

[KaraOrNot]

My bathroom habits are private. It takes H like an hour to poop and if he has been in there a while, I call in to make sure he hasn't died. We never fart in front of each other (save for one time, 14 years ago, when he squeezed me and I farted and one time when he farted in his sleep). I think it is gross to use the bathroom w the door open for pee or poop.

ETA. I would die if H showed me his poo. Gross!

[shadyblue42]

My H and I must be weird. We only close the bathroom door when we have company.

[audry80]

My husband had to wipe my ass after my transplant so we are pretty open about our shitting. He always joke that I better never question his love for me and that true love means wiping your spouses ass.

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Jan 9, 2013 0:05:07 GMT -5 shadyblue42 said:

My H and I must be weird. We only close the bathroom door when we have company.

That's what we do too.

Honestly, we've both worked in jobs where we had to deal with adult human shit and we've been through so much together, medically, that shit doesn't even phase us.

[pbutter]

We don't go in front of each other, but we do like to partake in potty humor. He teases me about how fast I can poop and I tease him about clogging the toilet. (Not on a regular basis). However, we do not fart in front of each other. Even after 20 years together! Weird, I know.

[7costanza]

Jan 8, 2013 23:08:55 GMT -5 ladygrey said:

We always shut the door, even for just peeing, and never talk about it. I have no desire to share my bathroom habits with DH and luckily he feels the same way. A little privacy and mystery is good for our marriage.

I was the person in the other post who said we keep our bathroom habits private, and the above is exactly how we are.

The one exception to this is the time I had food poisoning and was sick at both ends. In a one bedroom condo there is no hiding that!

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We even have separate bathrooms. Total privacy.

[steph96]

I have a huge hangup. I used to wait for him not to be home, but now I have loosened up. I now sneak off to the master bathroom when he is caught up doing something else (reading, outside playing with the dogs, etc). If he asks what I'm doing I tell him that I'm going to get X item. I'm pretty sure he knows what I'm doing, but I just don't feel like I should announce it to him.

He has no hangup on telling me when he is going.

[CloudBee]

I tend to swing the bathroom door towards the closed position if I just have to pee but it doesn't actually latch shut. If I'm popping I always close the door. He's helped me to the bathroom and stayed with me post-surgery and during recovery many, many times at home, though, and there's no discomfort in that. Sometimes he will stand at the door to chat and I do the same if we were mid-conversation or I have a question.

My husband closes the door at home regardless. Sometimes if we have guests (and we are only using the master bathroom) or are on vacation he will come in to pee while it showering.

We don't get into too much detail but do say as we are getting off the couch "back in a few" and the other often chuckles and wishes them good luck. If one of us has been in the bathroom a while it's also not uncommon to knock and say "feeling ok?" etc. So I suppose we are semi-private.

[ECB]

We don't do it in front of each other, and usually the door is closed (although to pee, I don't always close the door). But w/ a young child at home - sometimes the door doesn't stay closed!

DH and I don't "talk" about our habits, but we'll sometimes make a comment/joke. DH's new "joke" is that he won't do his weekly weigh-in (for WW) until after his morning poo - wants to be as light as he possibly can be.

[mrshandy]

No secrets really. DH and I usually leave the door open when peeing so if the door is closed then we know someone is pooping. DH poops every morning at practically the same time so it would never really be a secret.

We will not ever poop in front of each other, but that is the only boundary we won't really cross.

[aspentosh]

Usually we say "I gotta go to the bathroom" and leave it at that. Sometimes we'll say we have to poop. I'm not trying to hide it but we don't make a huge announcement either.

[CloudBee]

Jan 9, 2013 0:24:42 GMT -5 pbutter said:

However, we do not fart in front of each other. Even after 20 years together!

Unless one slips out, we don't either. Usually we are quiet and then blame it on the dog if the other suspects.

[ssmjlm]

Eh we're pretty open about it. Especially with pregnancy when I had a couple days of irregularity. And the one time I had to really go and was in there so long DH asked me if the baby was ok (not me, just her of course ).

I try and go upstairs if I have to #2 just b/c I like to keep the half bath clean for guests and DH usually does the same.

[chessie]

When we use the bathroom we lock the door, otherwise its left open normally ( we have 1 bathroom in household).

[h]

We don't announce or discuss it or go with the door open, but it's not like we sneak around trying to be secretive about it either.

[calico]

We are open with one another about our bathroom habits. It's common to hear "Be right back, I have to poop." It's pretty obvious when I shut the door in the bathroom that I'm either pooping or on my period. We pee with the door open unless we have company.

The annoying part of it all is that whenever I shut the door, DH will sometimes open the door to try to talk to me and I have to be all like "I shut the door for a reason, honey". If I do the same thing to him, he gets pissy and always says "I'm trying to take a shit, will you leave me alone?". Who knew that pooping would put someone in a bad mood.

[SJ]

Why do you have to tell each other where you are going? Do they worry otherwise?

I just go to the bathroom when I need to use it. I see absolutely no need to tell DH when I stand up "I am going to go into the bathroom to use the bathroom. I will pee and maybe poop."

Just does not compute.

[callie]

I close the door and won't poop if he's in the bathroom. He'll close the door but doesn't care if I'm in there.

[gibbinator]

We pee with the door open and poop with the door closed. So it's no secret :-P