My husband's flatulence problems are really starting to affect our relationship. Now before you think this is a a troll, i forgot my email after so long of not coming on. Am a long term user. This is a genuine issue.
He does it when I'm eating and puts me off my food. He doesn't try to hide it in anyone's presence and it's so bad that it seems to soak into the bed linen and his clothes. I have to change the bed sheets up to 3 times a week which I think is excessive. I have encouraged him to go to the doctors but he refuses to think that there might be something wrong. I am thinking he may have IBS or something similar.
He tries to pass it off on his diet but we eat the same things and I'm pregnant and I do not pass wind on his level. It has actually made me vomit on several occasions. I have even taken to sleeping on the sofa some nights because the stench is that bad.
Now here's the interesting part. Some may say that he is being immature and should control it like everyone else does. I agree but I think it comes from his childhood. I have noticed that MIL is also the same. She loudly passes wind in front of visitors, in public, when people are eating and doesn't apologise. She thinks it's hilarious and normal (she's 50 with good health). So DH has never been taught that it isn't normal and it's actually quite rude and disgusting. I'm not his mother so I can't 're-teach' him that what he's doing isn't notmal. I can't physically force him to go to the doctors either.
I feel that if it continues I may have to leave him. I really wish his mother had done a better job of raising him.
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Husband's flatulence problems
wingpurple · 30/01/2016 10:14
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