I don't want my boyfriend to know i'm pooping. what can i do?
Okay, so this is a really embarrassing problem, but a big problem. I have Parcopresis, or a social anxiety about defecating. It bothers me especially when my boyfriend is around. I know that he knows I poop(because everyone does), but I have this irrational fear that he's going to think I'm gross and unfeminine for doing so.
THis is really affecting my life because I literally cannot use the bathroom at his home, or when he is around. Even if I went to try, nothing would come out. It's a like a psychologically imposed constipation.
As a female, I feel that women have been socialized by our society to be "pretty" and "delicate" and "clean" and "pure". This makes it hard to be comfortable doing something that is often loud, foul, and smelly. I need help, because he and I are supposed to be going to CA for a week, and I can't go a week without pooping. What can I do? Is it normal to feel this way?