The answer: The other has to wait outside with a hand remaining inside the bathroom and they take turns showering.
Couple handcuff themselves to each other for three months ‘to fix relationship’
A couple have attempted to save their relationship by handcuffing themselves together after going through a rocky patch.
Online car salesman Alexandr Kudlay, 33, and beautician Viktoria Pustovitova, 28, began the “experiment” on Valentine’s Day following a period of off and on romance.
He came up with the idea after Pustovitova said she wanted to break up with him.
Pustovitova refused his idea at first, hanging up the phone on him the first time he suggested it, but eventually changed her mind.
“In terms of physical comfort, with every day passing, we are getting used to it more and more. It gets easier,” Kudlay said from their flat in the eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine.
“We used to break up once or twice a week. When during another fight Vika once again said that we had to break up, I replied: ‘Then I will attach you to myself.’”
For nearly a month now, neither has had any personal space and they do everything together, from grocery shopping to cigarette breaks.
Photos of the closely attached couple show them getting dressed together, surfing the web together and getting freshened up in the morning together.
“I decided it will be an interesting experience for me, that it will bring into my life new bright emotions which I did not experience before,” Pustovitova said.
“I love him, so I came to a decision to do it.”
Now they post images of themselves on Instagram portraying an idyllic coexistence, complete with captions stressing the importance of mutual respect and understanding.
They have also appeared on talk shows on Ukrainian television.
As for their relationship, “some tension has come up”, but the couple say they have found new ways of dealing with discord out of necessity.
“Fights between us did not disappear, we still fight,” Kudlay said.
“But when we approach a dead end and there is no understanding between us, we simply stop talking instead of packing up our things and walking away.”
The public response has been a mix of praise, scepticism, and simple curiosity.
Comments on Instagram range from “Lovely couple” to “Can anyone explain me what for?”
Among the most burning questions is how the couple go to the toilet.
