For the Love of All That is Holy, Can’t a Girl Just Shower in Peace?
What is up with the men in my house? Both of them think it’s their God-given right to invade MY shower.
First it was just Tate attempting to ruin my shower. He’s always looking for a little sumpin’ sumpin’ and I’m just wanting to be ALONE while I clean my body. I don’t need, nor do I want, companionship in the shower. On the weekends when Tate is home, I’ve learned to shower when both kids are awake and in need on very strict parental supervision so that I can shower in peace. When I do make the mistake of waiting until the afternoon to shower and the children are napping, I have to fend Tate and his eyebrow wagging and feeble romance attempts in order to JUST shower. Alone. And clean my body. And nothing else.
It wasn’t always like this. In fact, we used to shower together regularly. Sometimes we showered together in our attempt to save the planet and save water, other times we showered together because…well, just because. You’re a smart group of Internetz, I’m sure you can figure it out. Anyhow, now one of my only solo excursions IS the shower and I’d like to be left the hell alone.
Showering is an iffy prospect many days since the birth of my children. Some days the stars align and the wind is blowing just the right direction for me to shower in peace. Ella naps while Carson watches Wonder Pets and I shower ALONE. Lately, though, Carson has also decided that showering with me is absolutely necessary. No amount of bribing, cajoling, or strong arming him makes him see the need for mommy to have her few minutes alone. Admittedly, the first few times he hopped in the shower with me, it was pretty cute. Now WEEKS later, and nary a solo shower to be had, it’s cuteness has completely worn off.
Can’t a girl just shower in peace? Maybe I should invent locking shower doors and curtains. I’d probably be a bajillionaire.
If you manage to figure out a lock that will keep men and toddlers out of the shower, I’m buying it. I might have to buy ten of them. I don’t care how much you charge because I NEED ME ONE OF THEM THERE LOCK THINGS!
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I would totally buy the shower door locks.
Both boys went through a phase when they wanted to shower with me..and I was a meanie and said no, no, no. This is my time. It is hard to fend of the little ones and the hubby when all they want is you.
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Put it on my tab!!!! You WILL be a bajillionaire!!
I’ve gotten spoiled during the week, as my youngest REFUSES to shower with me. She’s terrified. It’s the weekends when I have to watch out….for obvious reasons. I love your tactic of making sure the kids NEED supervision at shower time. ha ha! I think we are kindred spirits.
It’s going to the…aheam…bathroom when I need super de duper locks. That’s when the kids ALWAYS decide they NEED me. (Or need to run around, hurt each other, and get into naughty things.) Ugh.
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I’m sooooo with you on that! I get totally perturbed when he asks if he can join me when he is already naked and walking in. If I dare take one when the kids are napping I also know what will happen afterwards….sigh.
The only redeeming thing is that at least I get a neck/shoulder rub out of it. Still, I would rather have my hot steamy shower to myself.
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Hellloooo! Some of us are in a SEX drought. You need to stock up on the nookie before the pond runs dry woman!
Shower… what is a shower?
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Oh isn’t it the truth?! How do I explain to hubby that maybe I don’t wanna be groped all the time. I love him, dearly. He’s still sexy to me and I love knowing that I am to him but enough!
My biggest loss of personal time, lately, has been eating. Up until the past few weeks, for the most part, I could eat lunch in peace. The boys fed and parked in front of the tube and me hiding in the office to eat and sneak in some computer time. Now they don’t give me more than 2 mins alone - enough to eat 1.5 bites of food - before coming to ask/whine/nag/cry about something.
Oh how I wish men and children understood how little personal time we get and how very important it is!
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I hate showering when T is home because I never know if I’m going to find out he’s been watching me execute whatever embarrassing maneuver or whatnot. Or if I’m going to be washing my hair with my eyes closed and find him staring at me when i open them! I just hate when I get OUT of the shower all nice and clean and he gropes me and hangs all over me, dude, I JUST took a shower I don’t want to have to take another one!!!
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My husband is the SAME way. The only thing that keeps him out is that I love a SUPER HOT shower. I mean really really hot….like steamy and hot and skin scalding. He hates that hot of a shower and it keeps him out!
I just like to clean myself and enjoy my shower…..
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I feel like this about my bath. And I have no helpful advise at all.
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I would pay you a “bajillion” dollars for that invention…
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OMG, you would be a super bajillionaire. Invent them!
Oh, and Milk Maid, I feel your pain on the sex drought. at this point I would share some shower time for a little share time….
Anyways, I think it’s an unspoken rule that when you become a parent all of your bathroom privacy rights are null and void. Ah the joys….
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If I don’t get in the shower before the kids wake up, then I put them in front of the tv so I can shower in peace.
My husband? Doesn’t even try to invade my shower anymore. He learned eventually that it just ain’t happening in there.
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I feel ya on this one, sister. On weekdays, I usually leave the bathroom door open and put the big kid in front of the TV. I then corral the baby in a baby-proofed area using a baby gate. Usually he’ll hang with his sister and watch TV. Because I’m classy like that - anything I can do to get 10 minutes of peace!
And on weekends, it’s often the same. Especially given the husband’s love of sleeping in and taking naps.
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Put my name on that list of need the lock thing! Please make sure it will also keep animals out. It is a little unnerving to open your eyes from washing your hair and have dogs and cats staring at you! I still don’t know how they get the door open! My husband, let’s just say I know how you feel. And the whole, “You should be glad I still want to join you after 20 years!” just don’t cut it.
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That question goes right a long with ‘Can’t mommy go to the loo without an audience?’ in this house. I feel ya - big time!
Hehe, I’m with the ladies in the drought…but then again I clearly remember the days where I couldn’t shower alone and it was annoying!
Let me know when those locks are ready and I’ll take a set. Hey, you don’t have to lock it…Right?
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No, we can’t shower in peace. I have actually gotten where I take a shower when he is at work…Babyhead is more than happy to watch a movie while I shower now..though I realize when Baby Girl gets here I can’t do that anymore…
And what is it with men and showers anyway…DH gets to shower alone all the time…and if Babyhead wants to get in as well (he likes to play with the boats in the shower) then he whines “I wanted to shower aloooooooone” then why can’t we??
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I too look to showering (alone!) as my greatest moment of the day, when that day arrives!
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I HATE showering with Wally. It ticks me off when he tries to sneak in.
Showering alone is the ONE time I can stop sucking my saggy stomach in and then he gets in and ruins it all.
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Oh, boy, my husband is a do-it-in-the-shower kind of guy too. My libido still isn’t great, so sometimes I like it because it’s quicker and cleanup is a snap. Isn’t that awful?
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I’ve had to specifically tell my kids that if there’s no fire, nobody is badly hurt or if there isn’t some other kind of actual emergency, then they are absolutely, positively not allowed to open the bathroom door when I’m in the shower.
And yet, they still don’t leave me alone. Go figure…
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OMG, we live parallel lives. Totally.
DJ’s feelings have been hurt for DAYS because I nixed a co-shower this weekend, WHILE Dylan was awake and watching TV and I really just wanted to shower.
And, thanks for the Site O’ the Week love! Yay!
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Ha! It’s been 21 months since I last showered in peace!
Yes, I know that “leave me the hell alone” feeling very well.
amen, sister
the peeing with company I dont mind for some reason.
the showering? makes me wanna weep.
or perhaps I am.
just with the shower water you cant tell.
M.
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Locking shower curtains! I’m in!!
Seriously, that is one fo the few times I get to myself, too…except lately during the great bathroom reno when we are using the bathroom in the girls room. With them in bed saying, “Mommy…potty…mommy baff…”
Joy.
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Our shower is roughly 2 x 2 and the floor is covered with small, sharp, plastic animals and one beligerant (beligerEnt?) 3 year old who WILL NOT LET ME BE. If I even look towards the bathroom she is naked and on her way. “Make it rain, Mommy! Make it rain!!!” I pity Jack if he ever tries to usurp my special me gettin’ clean alone time. If I ever get that time.
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I was just thinking about this the other day. I am new to the SAHM gig and noticed that I do not get regular showers like I once did and when I do shower all three males in the house have ot be in the bathroom with me. How is it that Daddy can get ready in peace but I can not? We use to shower together daily also…now, not so much.
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I always wonder why I’m needed most when I’m in the bathroom….What the HELL is that?
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gawd, i love you guys. this too shall pass, my friends.
not soon.
but it will pass.
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Oh, poor you, Jennifer. Fighting off the romance of one, and the anatomy questions of the other.
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When we move I am having a big ass shower with three shower heads JUST FOR THIS REASON.
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i must be weird, cuz i love it when it’s my husband’s idea to shower with me…i like the attention…
however, i DO know what you mean and i have experienced your frustration in the past.
Yikes! Sometimes shower time is our only moments of peace!
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Oh A-men to THAT. I can’t shower or even go to the bathroom alone.
That ain’t right!
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It seems a mommy’s shower is just not sacred anymore. I mean did your parents ever shower toGETHER? NO. Eww.
But my kids totally know that WE do. And I get you. Sometimes I think it’s Eww, too.
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I just handed the laptop to my husband so he could read this. He doesn’t understand why I get annoyed at 6:30am when he and Alex are crammed into our bathroom, which is the size of a dressing room doing assorted things, as I shower. He laughed, but i still don’t think he gets it.
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Seriously. Anything I do in the bathroom, I want to do it alone.
May I mention that one time the phone rang for me and my husband handed it to me while I was in the shower?
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Ha ha! I can’t trust my son to stay out of the kitchen when I’m in the shower so I either end up waiting half the day in my pj’s to take a shower when he’s napping or take a 3 minute shower while he’s eating his Cheerios. Neither are great options, but I’m not willing to get up at 6:30 (and fight my husband for the shower!) just for that. I like my sleep better!
Good luck on the hubby part…
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When I was a single mom, I showered after Liv went to bed or early in the am. Now, Im just happy to get a shower and find myself with visitors often. If you invent those locks, let me know.
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I feel ya! When I was a kid, my mom used to say, “CAN’T I JUST POOP IN PEACE?!?!?!” I thought she was crazy - now I get that AND the shower thing. EVERYONE wants a piece of Mommy!
Put me down for one of those shower locks!
This lack of alone time in the shower must be contagious! I just wrote about it too.
And yes, I’d kill for a locking shower curtain!
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Good god. It’s like you and I share a brain. I could have written this post (if I was clever and witty like you).
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Just wait until they hone their “potty sonar” - I KNOW my kids and hubby just wait for me to sit down, then choruses of “MOMMY” begin with a “Honey, where are you” thrown in for good measure.
Shower alone - hah, I’d love to potty alone!
(And if it’s not the them, it’s the cats who figure you’ve got nothing better to do then pet them!)
Oh, I hear ya. My daughter does the same thing. Only recently she has started hogging the water. When I am washing my hair or something under the water she stands to the side and says “Hewy up, Mommy. I cold!” I just want to shout THEN GET OUT AND TAKE A BATH LATER! but that would be mean. Right?
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I hear ya, sistah! Let me know when you market the lock!
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Sadly enough we have a pocket door into our bathroom that doesn’t lock. I love showering alone, and I too have a hubby that loves to jump in with me. For years we showered together (young love)… Let’s just say, I love showering alone.
I keep my daughter’s out with movie bribes, I just put a movie in and they don’t make a peep or a move.
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Preach it, girl!
I’ve finally got mine to realize the shower is off limits when I’m in it. They settle for standing outside the door gawking…both the hubby and the kids. It’s equally disturbing but hey, baby steps, ya know?
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I’d buy one! I’m sending this to my husband right now. Seems like he and Tate have a lot in common.
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Your only recourse is to check into a local hotel and take a shower. Seriously, you aren’t going to have any peace. My sweet little manchild would whine at the door to let him in until he was 5. My loving first husband still whines at the door. Run girl, run to a hotel for peace and quite!
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