I can't stand DH's crunching

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Crunch and like cavernous noises it's awful it makes me physically react I can feel myself tensing up and getting angry. What's wrong with me?! Is it hormones? I used to be ok until about 3 years ago.

Has no one on this thread sought or obtained help about their misphonia?

My husband is the same. I can hear him eating when I'm 2 floors up. I feel like he enjoys the crunch and does it on purpose. He sort of strikes at his food like a snake.

That's what I'm wondering. So far it seems loops might be the answer

I think your husband is my work colleague OP. Can I kill him for you please?
He slaps his lips, crunches loudly and makes a horrible‘lapping’ sound. I am perimenopausal so will be allowed off on reasonable grounds

Teeth grinding whilst he's asleep, one day he'll wake up and I'll have pulled the fuckers out 🤬

That lunging at food thing like a snapping starving Alsatian makes me want to sew my Fanny shut for all eternity. Sometimes I feel like I need to wear ear defenders and horse blinders at the dinner table.

I have to actively remind myself of the good things about him because the greedy dog snapping at his fork is pure ick (he smacked his spoon off his teeth in his haste yesterday morning eating his cereal. I couldn’t stop replaying the revulsion for hours!) He eats three forkfuls to my one. I don’t think the shovelling huge heaps of food in and rush to swallow are unconnected to the amount of noise he ends up making.

ive tried approaching the subject and suggesting smaller forkfuls, slowing down etc but it’s clearly his standard operating system for ‘eat’ and it can’t be changed. If I’d properly clocked this behaviour early on I’d have not married him. I was too sex obsessed to care/notice back then though. Lust blinders on 😂

My husband slurps his cereal and it drives me crazy.

One person in our household has Misophonia and hates the sound of chewing and sniffing. Head phones help, but we have encouraged him to push through it a bit as if we just allowed him to walk around in headphones, we feared that eventually he'd struggle to go out with friends etc. It hasn't got worse and he manages it well. When stressed with other things, he is far less tolerant and of course the Misophonia becomes more pronounced. We may try hypnosis for him in the new year, if he feels he would benefit.

I have this, too. It makes me irrationally angry :( I try and have noise in the background during food time.. music, TV.. does kinda help

Oh God I have this too! Not helped at all by my DH liking very dry food, like dry crackers etc. He sat next to me tonight and ate a dry scone. The weird guttural sound he makes absolutely kills me. It's worse though when he's finished the food and continues to use his tongue and finger to fish out all the bits that are stuck around his mouth and between teeth etc. this sound is just the worst and seems to last for an eternity! I put my ear buds in or just go to the toilet for five minutes until he's finished. Luckily he eats fairly quickly. I had to force myself not to say anything tonight. I'm glad it's not just me!