You've noticed your girlfriend looking depressed lately, and the realization snuck up on you: She's been on the crapper for a while now. At first it was just a few hours, but that turned into days and weeks, and now you're up to two years. You bring her food and talk nicely, but there just doesn't seem to be anything that can convince her to get off the pot.

This was the dilemma faced by Kansas' Kory McFadden, whose 35-year-old squeeze, Pam Babcock, was on the john so long that the skin of her butt had fused with the seat.

"She is an adult; she made her own decision," McFarren is quoted as saying about his lady's strange bathroom habitat. "I should have gotten help for her sooner; I admit that. But after a while, you kind of get used to it." His girlfriend evidently had an intense phobia about leaving the bathroom, developed as a result of childhood beatings she sustained.

McFadden called the police last month when he noticed Babcock was "acting groggy," and EMS workers had to pry the toilet seat off with a crowbar, take her in to the hospital with the seat still attached to her body.

Authorities are still looking into whether they should charge McFadden with anything, but he claims that he tried to coax her out of the bathroom every day.

Question raised: Is McFadden guilty of some sort of abuse?