Exclusive | My bathroom divorce saved my marriage my husband is disgusting, but I now have toilet nirvana

“You’re disgusting!”That was the bathroom battle cry of Debbie Wiener, whose home was the scene of endless toilet turmoil when she and her husband shared a bathroom.Wiener, a retired interior designer, decided last year that it was time to end the tyranny of the toilet and opt for a bathroom divorce.It’s not unlike a sleep divorce, in which couples have their own dedicated spaces for slumber to stay off each other’s nerves.

But with a bathroom divorce, other functions are at hand.“As you get older, your gastrointestinal needs change,” Wiener said.“My husband’s habits didn’t age well.

One toilet was not cutting it.”Wiener, 66 — who doesn’t poo-poo toilet talk — hated her bathroom ever since she and her husband, Jim Weinberger, 67, bought their house on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.That was in 2011, when their two sons were teenagers.They lived — although miserably — with a bathroom connected to the primary bedroom on the ground floor.Its layout was bizarre: Someone actually had to walk through the bathroom to reach the bedroom.“If you are sitting on the toilet and someone wanted to go into the bedroom, they were going to pass you,” Wiener said.

“It was kind of a joke.”Fed up, she resolved to solve the commode crisis and create a spouse-saving bathroom suite, with two of everything.It’s the envy of everyone she knows, Wiener told The Post.“All my neighbors lined up to see my bathroom.

Every time I tell a woman about my bathroom, she is, like, ‘OMG I want that.’ This is the next step after a sleep divorce.You can share a vanity without sharing cooties.

You can share a wet room but not a toilet.”(That former, and awkwardly placed, bathroom? It has a new life as a linen closet.)While it’s unclear whether there’s a trend toward “separate primary baths” or “his and hers bathrooms” in new or remodeled homes, primary baths are becoming larger, said Tricia Zach, director of research for the National Kitchen and ...