Do you always keep the bathroom door shut

[dulcemariamar]

when you are at home? Or do you have no problem with your SO seeing you do your business in the bathroom and vice versa?

[doctoranda]

I usually keep the door shut. Growing up my mom always kept the door open and I hated that. So I try to keep it shut. DH keeps it open sometimes.

[swissmama]

I usually keep it open so I can hear the kids. Plus, DD would bust in about .3 seconds after I closed it anyway.

[azure]

If the toilet and bathroom are not in use, the doors are shut.
If I'm home alone I go with the toilet door open, otherwise we all shut it if others are in the house.
Lately I've been showering with the bathroom door open because it is too hot and I hate getting ready in a humid bathroom.

[aMrsin09]

If I'm home alone, open. If anyone else is in the house, closed.

[Deleted]

It is closed if anyone is home except the one time I had food poisoning and the bathroom was so hot I was about to pass out (the bathroom is the size of a small closet) and I had to leave the door open and didn't care in the least that H was home But food poisoning aside, we close the door if the other person is home

[blushing]

The only time our bathroom door is closed is when we have guests. I think I need to start teaching DS that we should close the door because even when we go out he never closes the cubicle door, but then he is a boy.

[travelingturtle]

I prefer to keep it open. I might close it over if I'm feeling generous.

[dulcemariamar]

I read a blog post about this girl who couldnt pee if her husband was close to the bathroom. I think that is odd. I have lived through stomach flu and food poisoning. I think the cat is out of the bag on what happens in the bathroom.

[dorothyinAus]

I tend to keep it open for some visits, closed for others. DH always keeps the door closed. But I hate my toilet closet. In the US I had a huge bathroom with the sink, toilet and tub/shower; I actually had enough free floor space left to practice my tap dance in my bathroom. Here we have a little toilet closet and then a hall of a room with the sink, shower and tub. It's tiny and closed off, and I do not understand the purpose of having the toilet in a separate room from the sink. There are times when I need running water and have to open doors with messy hands.

[popcorn]

Jun 27, 2012 5:21:33 GMT -5 dulcemariamar said:

I read a blog post about this girl who couldnt pee if her husband was close to the bathroom. I think that is odd. I have lived through stomach flu and food poisoning. I think the cat is out of the bag on what happens in the bathroom.

Yeaaah...peeing is not the grossest thing my H has heard (or will hear) me do. Childbirth and a stomach bug that had me exploding from both sides at once resulting in a short hospital stay during my last pregnancy have helped me realize peeing is just the least of what he has to deal with as a spouse. I used to have a shy bladder and couldn't pee when H was standing outside the door at the beginning of our relationship, but things have changed since then.

That said, I leave the door cracked open if just peeing. If it's number two I always close the door. H does the same. If anyone other than H is at my house the door is closed all the way. The most annoying thing about living with my ILs (temporarily before we moved here) is that they both pee with the door cracked open--and at night they don't turn the light on. I have walked in on MIL peeing many times. NOT FUN!

[clogged]

Jun 27, 2012 5:21:33 GMT -5 dulcemariamar said:

I read a blog post about this girl who couldnt pee if her husband was close to the bathroom. I think that is odd. I have lived through stomach flu and food poisoning. I think the cat is out of the bag on what happens in the bathroom.

I can't poo if he is anywhere near the bathroom. Anyone for that matter. In hotels, if I hear someone in the hall walking by it all clamps down and not even the jaws of life can help. I have no idea why. It's weird.

[Deleted]

When I was living alone in CA - door open all the time unless someone else was in the apartment. At my parent's house I'm in the basement, while everyone else's bedrooms/bathrooms are upstairs, so generally door open, again unless someone else is in the basement. With DH I usually partially close or with peeing, fully close with other things. But I wouldn't have a problem doing anything even if he were in the same room.

[Deleted]

No problem with hubby being near or in the bathroom and viceversa. When we're home together we talk continuously and let nothing interrupt our conversation

[Cheesecake]

Depends on which bathroom it is. Downstairs bathroom opens into the hallway and if you'd really try the window by the front door could look into that if the door was open. so that's always closed. Upstairs it depends. If other people than DH and I are here, it'll be closed, if one of us is doing nr 2, it'll be closed, in all other instances it can go either way, but it's generally not fully closed and definitely not locked.

[Cheesecake]

Jun 27, 2012 6:46:52 GMT -5 clogged said:

Jun 27, 2012 5:21:33 GMT -5 dulcemariamar said:

I read a blog post about this girl who couldnt pee if her husband was close to the bathroom. I think that is odd. I have lived through stomach flu and food poisoning. I think the cat is out of the bag on what happens in the bathroom.

I can't poo if he is anywhere near the bathroom. Anyone for that matter. In hotels, if I hear someone in the hall walking by it all clamps down and not even the jaws of life can help. I have no idea why. It's weird.

Oh, I have that too, not weird at all!

Also, it takes me a couple of days to be able to poo in an unfamiliar bathroom, even when there's no-one around. The first 2 or 3 days I'm at a new place, I just can't do it. Had that since I was a little kid. When I was 3 years old I was taken to the ER for something and they wanted a stool sample so they sat me down on a potty. 4 hours later, still nothing. I was crying because I had to go so bad, but I couldn't do it there.

[crimsonandclover]

Our bathroom door is always closed. Now that DD's getting a little older I sometimes take her in with me, and I imagine that will continue as she gets more curious. At the beginning of our marriage, DH and I actually had a little talk about how we wanted to handle the bathroom situation and decided that we'd prefer not to have an open-door policy and to avoid going if the other person is in the room if possible. Illnesses or desperately needing to pee while the other is in the shower are exceptions, of course, we're not militant about it. Not that we don't know what the other is doing in there, but there are some things you just don't need to see.

[clogged]

Jun 27, 2012 10:14:22 GMT -5 Cheesecake said:

Also, it takes me a couple of days to be able to poo in an unfamiliar bathroom, even when there's no-one around. The first 2 or 3 days I'm at a new place, I just can't do it. .

you. me. soulmates.

[tktravels]

If I'm not peeing or pooping, the door is open, and DH lives by the policy as well.

Growing up, my parents left the door open for EVERYTHING and it grosses me out. When my mom visits (and DH is not home) she still leaves the door open, even after being asked to close the door because not everyone wants/needs to see their parent use the bathroom.

I'm not keen on pooping with someone else standing outside my bathroom door at home, however, if I'm elsewhere, I'm a pooping machine. I used to be totally shy regardless of the manner of evacuation, but after living in the dorms, I have learned to pee and poop freely, even in the out of doors.

Just out of curiosity, did any of you shy poopers live in a college or HS dormitory, and if so, how did you deal?