An Onion article today is about a couple who’ve finally reached the point that they are comfortable having one take a pee or drop a deuce while the other is in the bathroom.
My fiancee and I have already had this discussion and have mutually, and quite happily, agreed that this will NEVER happen, ever. I am never going in there and taking a whiz or dropping the kids off at the pool while she is brushing her teeth or something, or vice versa. Never, never, never, never, never. God, how gross.
Never. I’d rather he wasn’t even in the bedroom while I’m in our bathroom! Yesterday was our 20th anniversary and I don’t expect my opinion will ever change.
We steer clear of each other’s dumps, but if she’s in the shower, I’ll come in and pee in the toilet. If she’s peeing in the toilet and I’m drunk, I’ll come in and either pee in the sink, or try to aim into the toilet between her legs. She finds the former amusing as long as I wash it all down with the tap, and the latter amusing as long as I don’t miss.
Well I live alone but have 3 toilets in my place, 2 in bathrooms and 1 stand alone, so it wouldn’t occur to me to use the one in which my visitor is performing her bathroom stuff.
I don’t get what’s gross about this, at all. My wife and I have done this since before we were married. It’s only using the toilet, FFS, not scat and golden showers.
Multiple bathrooms? I’ll use a different one. One bathroom and I need to pee NOW? I don’t care if it’s my partner, my BFF or a travel companion, I’m by Jove peeing NOW.
And it’s also not running screaming from your spouse in horror, it’s just different levels of privacy and comfort. There are also the sounds and odors that come along with someone using the bathroom, that yes, I do find kinda gross.
We do have a second bathroom, and when it’s just the 2 of us at home, I’ll use the one he’s not in. But when we have guests, all bets are off. So I picked the first option.
Our toilet is in it’s own little room with a door (water closet) within our master bath…so yeah, happens everyday.
ETA: worst house I ever owned was one that the on-suite master bath to the master bedroom, has no door, and the toilet was not in a separate water closet. It was just downright awkward to take a shit while the spouse was laying in the bed.
We have our own bathrooms, and I lock the door anytime I’m in mine. If I had a chest of drawers or piano in the bathroom, I’d roll it over to further block the door. If she is peeing in her bathroom she sometimes leaves the door open. I’m squicked out by it, and turn on my heel if I encounter her in the act of urinating.
Married 44 years and it doesn’t bother us at all to perform these functions when the other one is in the bathroom. It’s been that way pretty much from the start.
Poop…no. Although he does creep up to the locked door to ask me what I’m doing. He thinks its funny.
I farted on his leg on our first date. We had been friends a long time. I had several long term relationships before that, and never farted in front of a boyfriend. I knew I didn’t want to spend the rest of my life holding it in, and I knew he might be the one. So I bit the bullet, and let one go. He laughed hysterically. Happily married 5 years this October.
If it’s absolutely urgent, and the other two bathrooms are occupied or it’s too urgent for me to run to the other end of the house? Yes, I’ll pee while he’s in the shower or shaving or whatever. I won’t take a dump if he’s in there, and, like IvoryTowerDenizen I’d prefer that he not even be in the bedroom if I’m pooping. He knows I defecate, I know he knows I defecate, but there’s no law that says he has to see it or hear it or smell it.
I’ll go bug my wife and ask her questions while she’s on the throne, and she’ll do the same if I’m taking a leak, but she steers way clear of me while I’m taking a dump.
We have three bathrooms, but being married 36 years no problems being there.
If you are disgusted by this kind of thing, my advice is to not be around when she is in labor. Eight times as messy.
