New relationship and ‘bodily functions’

Wow I love these threads when I learn how far off the average I am 😆. I knew there would be some but I had no idea so many would view farting as rude. Obviously I wouldn’t at work or something! But with close people, of course. There was a period where DH had some gut issue and his farts smelled awful; I eventually was asking him to go to the loo to do it, but diet change and he’s grand now. Mostly both our farts smell of very little so it’s just a noise, what’s the big deal.

6 months. To the day 😂

I will not love someone more because they fart or burp at me. I may well love them less if they do this continuously.

I've never farted in front of my husband I'd be mortified 😂🙈

I’m not at all prudish but being honest it’s a turn off 🤮 … Imo it’s just not something you do …

I'm not in a relationship now but I've never farted in front of a partner. The best relationships were with guys who didn't like to in front of me either. The ones who did turned me off very quickly. One in particular suffered from severe flatulence due to his sleep apnea machine and while he couldn't help it I lost my attraction within months. I don't think it's polite to deliberately fart in front of anyone including a romantic partner. Sometimes it can't be helped and that's understandable, but otherwise no thanks.

I would be disgusted if my boyfriend farted in front of me

Omg the last sentence of your post cracked me up! "... pray to the Lord for forgiveness..!" 😂😂😂

Seriously? You think that every time someone trumps they ‘have the potential of shitting in their underwear’?? 😂

In all my windy 61 years, I’ve never shat myself when trumping! And I am prolifically windy!

Trumping does not equal shitting oneself! Neither does it ‘usually’ equate to a ‘full bowel’…it is primarily a build up of gas in your digestive system!

Unclench a bit…literally! 😂

I think this depends on how you were brought up. My brother and I used to fart competitively when we were young, although we called it blowing off. My parents never told us to go to the bathroom although I don't remember them farting themselves. So I look on farts as amusing not disgusting.

not mine..i sleep on the sofa to get away from his flatuence

lived with my fella for 38 yrs and have never farted in front of him...the same can't be said about him..stinky fucker can't get his arse in the toilet...i don't want to be smelling his stench...so disrepectful

Early on when we hadn’t been together that long I accidentally let one out just as I was dozing off to sleep next to him. I mean… we’d spent the whole day together so there was a lot of bloating and my body just took its moment the second I was relaxed. There was no ignoring it had happened, it’d woken me fully up (like when a dog jumps out of their sleep when they fart) and although embarrassing being the first to break, it at least opened those gates for us. My stomach became a lot more comfortable after that moment.
You just need one of you to have your “ooops” moment.

And for those who think they’ve never farted in front of their spouses… LOL. Your body has 10000% betrayed you when you were sleeping many, many times you just don’t know. Your spouse does though…!

I was reading this very post when DD5, who has climbed on to my lap for a cuddle, farted on my leg.

I can’t hold mine in, not that I would anyway. Thanks to extensive bowel surgery, it’s not an option.

You may have to be prepared for him not ever wanting to or wanting you to! My DH and I do not in front of each other and have been together 15yrs (rarely by accident). Each couple will feel differently about these things.

We always fart in front of each other, farts are funny and I’m not getting stomach ache in my own home. I wouldn’t fart at the dinner table though.

Nothing to do with being a prude but I never farted in anyone else's presence, ever. To me, it is about being respectful, that is how I grew up. Burping would be another thing. I am not from the UK originally, and it is considered beyond rude in my country of birth to do any of these two (perfectly normal) bodily functions in the presence of other people (close family members included). It simply doesn't happen.

I take it you haven’t been through chemotherapy? That really can screw up the digestive system; to the point when one can’t help but fart unfortunately!

13yrs with mine and never intentionally done it. He has only done it in front of me a few times. He has done it deliberately so can't be that embarrassed but most of the time they have clearly slipped out and he tries to hide it by making some other noise like a cough or something. All very strange but I never let on I have heard him.

I don't think expecting people not to fart in front of you is being prudish.
I think expecting people not to fart in front is expecting them to treat you and your comfort with a bit of respect.
Civilised behaviour isn't prudishness.
Do you regard your new partner as a prude because he, as yet, hasn't farted in front of you? Most people would actually be pleased to have some one who is civilised.

I made what is known as a tongue in cheek remark . It's quite funny that you appear to have taken it seriously!

I have to conclude that none of the "fart deniers" , families who have NEVER let rip in front of each other, have ever given birth to male children
I will just leave it there 🤣🤣🤣

@BauhausOfEliott Noted, I'll take my creepy self off the thread. 😅 Enjoy.

No.

Look, nobody’s saying you have to fart in front of your partner, but it’s quite weird that you’re so invested in (and seemingly quite angry about) other people farting in the privacy of their own homes.

Also the degree to which you seem to be obsessing over the biology of it is borderline creepy. I’m genuinely finding the way you keep talking about it and describing it in detail a lot more unpleasant and rude than my own partner accidentally letting out a little fart in front of me.

For someone so vehemently against farting you do seem to have a weirdly strong interest in talking about every aspect of it.