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AIBU?

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To ask if your partner eats loudly?

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HippoEvans · 07/12/2018 19:26

DH is making too much noise when eating. He's only started doing it so loudly recently. We're talking slapping his chops and swallowing really loudly. If he has carrot stick on his plate the crunching is unbearable.

I turn the TV up but he is blissfully unaware.

AIBU to tell him his eating noises are bothering me?

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RayRayBidet · 08/12/2018 19:43

I grew up with a father who has no back teeth. The sound of him eating muesli makes me boil with rage. It's gross. I know he can't help it but I get the red mist.
DH is also a noisy eater, the sound of him eating grapes, apples. Ridiculous loud crunching.
However the worst is when he slurps soup and then seems to bite the spoon. I mean wtf?
Also if he chews something soft I can actually hear his teeth clack together. So soft food is actually worse.
The radio is my friend at mealtimes.
At work there were people I would avoid. I would go and see who was in the break room before committing to going on lunch. Best to wait till 2pm to eat in blissful quiet.

Elephantina · 08/12/2018 19:49

Haha yes, but ONLY WITH FRUIT!!

All other food is fine, but he eats an apple like a horse, mouth open and sucking air past every mouthful. I Cannot. Abide. It.

Grapes, melon, pineapple...gah, the liquid "scwah scwah scwah" sound as it revolves around his back molars makes me want to scream. Luckily he is otherwise perfect, otherwise he'd have had a gala apple shoved up his arse years ago.

LooksLikeImStuckHere · 08/12/2018 19:59

Aaargh. Yes. DH isn’t particularly loud when eating but it still makes me irrationally stabby. I find everyone has a different sound though (but each one gives me the rage). So DH has a breathy noisy type of eating but DFIL has more of a, well I won’t describe it as you’ll all hate me but I really wish he didn’t chew each piece of food 50 times as a good digestion thing.

Just thinking about it makes my skin crawl.

Strangely, my kids don’t bother me. It’s just everyone else. I share an office with one other person and I had to leave as she happily started chomping on a packet of nuts. I was 3 metres away and I couldn’t stand it.

Doesn’t need to be a noise either though, just watching people eat and thinking about the food in their mouth really bothers me.

Hofuckingho · 08/12/2018 20:00

I have to tell my DH now and again, when he gets noisy. Luckily he takes it well, bless him, and goes quiet again.

Pigsinblanketsforeveryone · 08/12/2018 20:06

Oh my god this is a thread I can relate to.

I hate it. So much.

I get rage. Like my insides are boiling. My thoughts become murderous. And I can't keep calm. It's so irrational.

I love my husband but as soon as he starts eating I seriously consider divorce.

Happens with work colleagues too. I have to leave my office. And animals, poor innocent things eating/drinking from there bowls, they know no better but my brain goes into kill mode!!!
I think need meditation or yoga in my life.

HugoBearsMummy · 08/12/2018 20:10

Occasionally he does I end up snapping "are you eating loud enough there????" With a really fucked off expression on my face, he usually stops doing it then. Can't stand loud eaters.

HugoBearsMummy · 08/12/2018 20:13

And yes yes to the teeth bashing on cutlery. Only if something is steaming hot thank god but even so!!! I always say to him can't you just wait for it to cool down rather than smash your teeth to pieces on the spoon /fork etc !!! Arghhh !!!

ladybee28 · 08/12/2018 20:14

My DP does EVERYTHING loudly. I want to poke him right in his eyes

Carly767 · 09/12/2018 11:49

Mother used to salivate loudly while cooking and swish the saliva around before swallowing with a smack of her lips . . AArrrrggghhhhhh!

And does anyone else's OH drink tea or coffee and let out an ahhh type sound after swallowing? I think it's an age thing. He's 56 and didn't do this 20 years ago

For those who develop noisy eating later in life is it perhaps that as sex lives become less hectic they transfer their sex noises (even orgasm faces) to food and drink

SharonCarter · 09/12/2018 19:16

I’ve just had to leave the room mid roast dinner

As well as the chomping, lip slapping and very loud swallowing he actually managed to shut his mouth and start chewing with a piece of broccoli actually hanging out.

WTF? I can take no more!

buzz91 · 09/12/2018 19:19

Tell him, although whether it will make a difference I don’t know. My dh eats really loudly depending on what he’s eating, but it’s only recently that he makes a conscious effort to be quiet, and that’s only because he had to spend a lot of the last year with his dad who is a very loud eater and he now knows the annoyance of it!

Bluesrunthegame · 09/12/2018 19:25

No, because if he did, he wouldn't be my partner. Absolutely cannot bear loud eating.

JustDanceAddict · 09/12/2018 19:31

Same here! I swear he didn’t when we met or I wouldnt have put up with it.
The tea slurping is the worst. So not necessary. Now he can’t seem to eat and breathe simultaneously - is it an age thing?

Oysterbabe · 09/12/2018 19:31

My DH crunches Crisps really, really loudly. He seems like he's doing it on purpose, that he enjoys the crunching noise and tries to maximise it.

buckingfrolicks · 09/12/2018 19:32

I leave public transport if someone in the carriage gets out a bag of crisps. The packet rustle is unbearable.

And I knew my DCs were young adults and no longer adorable kids the day I felt myself noticing the noise of their eating.

And my cat chewing wet food. I love my cat but it may have to eat outside (joke)

People should have individual eating cubicles imo.

Jaxhog · 09/12/2018 19:33

OMG. I thought it was just me!

I have to put the radio or TV on to drown out the noise.

blackcat86 · 09/12/2018 19:34

Wow ok so apparently I'm the loud eater....well according my DH who is extremely over sensitive to it IMO. No one else comments or seems to care. I've told him to pack it in with the judgement and get on with his own dinner rather than worrying about what I'm doing. I've calmly listened before when he's complained, got up and thrown my whole dinner in the bin. Being judged on how I eat does little for my appetite. I have an over pressurised bite which may contribute but mostly I think some people are very good at tuning into the sounds that others make rather than listening to their own. Maybe thats just my DH!

DyingMachine · 09/12/2018 19:41

Mine opens his mouth REALLY wide before shovelling the food in and then grinding it down to a pulp. Whilst doing this, he then puts his cutlery down and rubs his hands together like Mr Burns.

At the end of the meal, he will then proceed to scrape every last morsel from the plate and the licks his knife at the end.

Fucking douche.

Ifangyow · 09/12/2018 19:43

Mine isn't a loud eater, he just eats with a racing spoon!
He reminds me of the dog, snaffle it down while barely tasting it, let alone chewing it.
I want to spork him in the eyeball.

DaysOfCurlySpencer · 09/12/2018 19:44

I have considered buying a trough and have, in the past laid out a trowel and garden fork in his place at the table.

I leave the room if crisps are brought in, it is horrendous, especially as they are the extra hard and loud type.

I didn't give it much thought when we were first a couple although I could hear him eat from the opposite side of the (large) room. Hadn't taken into account the eventualities of living with a waste disposal.

madcatladyforever · 09/12/2018 19:52

This thread explains exactly why I cannot live with other people. My cat has better table manners than either of my husbands.

Noloudnoises · 09/12/2018 20:15

I can't stand it either but worse are the people that clatter the spoon on their teeth every time!

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