Partner Freaked Out By Women Who Fart/Poo (so yes, all women)

I've been with DH for seven years, and have three kids. We have never farted on purpose in front of each other.

They have slipped out on occasion; my favourite being when I was laughing and accidentally blew off, and the farts kept coming with every 'ha' I made 🤣 they were so loud as well 😂

My DH is the same and I still fart in front of him 😆My Dad was also the same. He would take himself to the loo if he needed fart while my mum would sit beside him and force them out while killing herself laughing.

It’s good for the body too.

Lol, this is going to be very torn. You'll have those who say it's natural and that people should get over it and deatigmatise it...

...and you'll have those with manners.

Let's face it. However 'comfortable' you are around people, is it ever 'nice' to subject someone to that view or those smells?

I know everybody farts/poos and it doesn't bother me. However, apart from with my kids, I don't need/want to hear about it or deal with it. It's not disgusting or shocking but just something I'd rather not think about with other people.

The amount of uptight posters about letting one go is hysterical. 😆 One does not fart. Can't Imagine how some deal with a dose of holiday diarrhea or other.There is no way people go for years not accidently farting In front of partners. How will you all manage if doubly incontinent when aged? Lighten up, a sense of humour works wonders.

Gosh he should avoid our house, we are active farters!! Well in front of each other, I have IBS so it's hard for me to keep it in.

How does he feel about vaginal flatulance?

Because he's got a phobia of human bodily functions, that's why.

Literally started to type this reply and can tell my husband is waking up as he just farted.

He's not properly awake yet but I know I often fart when in between awake/asleep too.

I do wonder how your DH would react if you accidentally farted in your sleep?

When DH and j started dating we both had such tummy ache at night/in the morning especially due to trapped wind. We don't fart excessively as it is pretty disrespectful but we also don't expect the other to not have bodily functions or to get out of bed etc just to fart. We know exactly what the other is doing if they roll over in bed to point their bum in the opposite direction!

Because

He is completely freaked out by the concept that women fart/poo

Every animal fart/poos... if he is so freaked out the he needs some help.

its a normal bodily function. You have sex with your partner but you can’t fart in front of them?

Trumping? Five year old s call it trumping.
And trump (ing) is almost a byword for megalomanic idiocy is't it??!!😀

We fart in our sleep so nothing you can do about it. My Aunt used to be like this and said she never burped (must have been something wrong with her as it is quite normal). One day she was with my SIL and let out a rip roaring fart! My SIL said nothing but I would have done!!!!!

Sorry but I'm with the DH. It doesn't sound like he wants women to behave differently, more that it thinks it's impolite for people to do those bodily functions in front of others.

I totally agree. I'm not prude nor do I deny facts about bodies, in fact I'm a nurse and deal with these things everyday no problem. But no, I don't think it's nice to fart or use the toilet in front of others if it can be helped. Being yourself at home doesn't mean acting as disgusting as possible.

Hopefully they'd all be grown ups if they found themselves in a situation where a woman they knew ended up pushing the entire removable contents of her abdomen out of her body in a hospital room.

I feel exactly same and yes it's stems from shame in childhood. Thankfully my dh is understanding and try's not to do it in front of me . I don't freak out if I do hear him though and weirdly I'm ok with my kids doing it. How was he with nappy's?
But yes if someone was burping at the table I would feel sick and leave/not finish.

This post makes me very pleased to be married to a medic, who has seen literally everything and is never bothered.

I’m with your DH. Farting is a natural thing, but people who let rip in front of people are disgusting.

WRT your pooh in labour, it’s likely he never said anything to you because he didn’t want you to feel embarrassed. Because while poohing is a natural function, nobody wants to do it in a situation where they have no control over it. My partner wouldn’t be freaked out over it, but he knows I would be mortified, and as such wouldn’t say anything.

And your thread title is disingenuous. Your DP hasn’t said he’s freaked out by women poohing/farting, you say he doesn’t do it either, so clearly he just agrees with many others that to do it so publicly is just bad manners.

did he never set light to his flatus?
🤣🤣🤣

Tell him Jonathan Swift got there first in 1732?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50579/the-ladys-dressing-room

Although there is a nice balance between absolute repression and using the toilet in each others presence.....

I’m with your DH. It’s incredibly rude and unpleasant to fart in front of other people.

I don't think anybody likes to smell another person's farts and to purposely do it in the vicinity of someone when you are able to walk away and do it somewhere else is rude imo. However sometimes this just isn't. Possible as you just can't feel one coming especially as I've got older I've noticed the odd one just slips out (fucking annoyingly). I've also been known to sleep in the spare room if I come to bed after DH and he's been farting in his sleep and the room stinks.

But hey it is what it is, we are only human, everyone shits, everyone farts.

Years ago I was with a bloke who never farted in front of me in five years. We didn't live together though. It amazed me he was able to be so restrained but it also made me feel that I could never do it in front of him which was something I vowed never to get into again after we split up.

not sure it's a dealbreaker op but it's not very normal in a relationship I don't think. Like others have said can you really imagine the pressure of living the rest of your life trying your utter best not to let one go in front of him.

I once farted in year 1 and the teacher stopped talking and demanded whoever did it to own up and apologise. She was furious and there was complete silence until I had to put my hand up and own up. I still remember it, and it's not like I did it on purpose! It's probably the only time I even got told off in primary school. What's worse is my friends remembered it years later and made fun of me for it 😩

Umm. How has he coped with nappies? Toilet training? The fart joke stage of childhood? Kids farting? Good luck getting kids not to fart in front of you, I have been trying for a long time.

You could always have a bath or shower after a poo with nice smellies to disguise it if you were wanting to disguise it.