As a tangent to the couples sharing email thread…
Do you keep the bathroom door closed in the presence of your significant other? Or does your house have an open-door policy? Are there mundane grooming tasks that you refuse to do in front of your SO?
In my case, nature’s calls are attended behind a firmly closed door, and I will close the door to avoid tweezing my eyebrows or applying deodorant in front of my SO.
You?
I’m curious, and hoping this doesn’t veer into TMI.
Closed if I’m using the toilet. Open for anything else.
Well, in my house the door is always closed, but it doesn’t matter if I’m alone or not. I’m just weird like that. I don’t mind hubby walking in while I’m shaving, using the facilities, or doing my beauty routine so long as he closes the door behind him.
I can’t rationalize it, I guess it would just make it less embarassing if someone broke in the house or something. Or if my parents decided to drop by.
Open. I don’t care.
I don’t, however, want him hanging around if I’m taking a poo. Not that he wants to…
I was raised that way. We never closed the door growing up, so I don’t do it now, unless there are “outsiders” in the house who might think it icky.
Depends on who is home. If everyone is home, then door is closed for #1, #2 and bathing (hubby can come in but that’s it). If it’s just me, then the door can stay open for whatever.
Deoderating, beautifying and all else is done in another room and the door is usually left open - hard to see around the corner so doesn’t bother me.
Closed door for #2.
Anything else, door open.
In our house personal modesty means nothing. Plus, our cat lives to be in the bathroom with either of us at all times, no matter what. It’s easier just to let her in then deal with an upset kitty.
I used to close the door, but now we have kids and there is nothing more fascinating than watching Mommy go potty, apparently.
I try to go at work so that I can have a little privacy!
Closed door, unless I’m home alone. Then, it’s open door in case I need to listen for Aaron.
As a sidenote, I don’t lock the door at all, unless I’m in a public bathroom. If I fall or something, it’s a pain to have to unlock the door from the outside.
Robin
Closed door for using the toilet (even if I’m the only one in the house.)
Open for everything else.
In our apartment, it’s open all the time. #1, #2, whatever. My wife and I just don’t care, I guess. 
We close the door when we have guests, lest they think us cretins.
Ditto ivyglass.
why do i close the door when im home alone?
Our bathroom door is closed only when guests are in the house.
It just doesn’t bother Mr Goo and I, and we usually continue our conversation if everything is quick and running smoothly.
Open - Since 1971 when a friend was in an earthquake and trapped in the bathroom for about eight hours until I got home. The building shifted enough to jam all closed doors. She was burrowing out with my moustache trimming sissors.
I had to get friends to use a jack and pry bar to open the front door. Fortunately, the bathroom door was more breakable. She was a total wreck. Early on she smelled gas and knew she was going to be blown up or burned alive. Then the pipes started leaking.
Ever since then I keep the bathroom door at least a little open.
TV
All three of us keep it open unless it is going to be stinky and it is dinner time. Otherwise odors demand the fan, but not always the door closed. We also close it during showers to keep the nice steam in and sometimes hubby closes it to trim his beard because the clippers are so noisy.
I guess I’m a bizarrely prudish freak. I lock the bathroom door when I’m home alone, even.
Home alone: Open. Keeps the air circulating.
Home w/others: Closed. Doesn’t circulate the air.
Home w/significant other: Closed for #2, open for #1. Unless much farting is necessary.
Might I suggest a little boom box and/or really loud exhaust fan? I know what’s going on it there, and we’re all human. I’d just rather not hear it.
[hijack] 1971? Would that be the Sylmar earthquake? [/byejack]
Like Goo, we have an open door policy unless we have guests.
Closed for #2 and sensitive female occasional tasks, if you know what I mean and I think you do (I don’t think he wants to see any of that). Otherwise open, unless he’s taking a shower or bath and wants lots of heat and steam.