That the sound of DH eating crisps makes me want to hit him on the head with a hammer?

[sweetkitty]

I’m sure I have misophonia or something but my house is too noisy for me in general. DH is eating some kind of party snacks and the noise is driving me insane. It sounds like nails down a blackboard.

I think it’s a common thing with husbands and partners unfortunately, some foods DP eats I had no idea could make the noises he manages to make with them. Both my DD and I suffer with being extremely sensitive to certain noises, and my DP eating various foods is one of them. I have no idea why it’s so noisy, his mouth is shut whilst eating (would be shut permanently if I had my way when he’s making such a bloody racket!) At the dinner table, my DD and I sit there, glaring at him, clenching our knives.....

He also sneezes very loudly and 5/6 times in a row and that annoys us as well 😂

Do people posting assume that they are magically silent when they eat?

Zakana

Only 5/6 sneezes?!? I wish that was true for my DH! He sneezes endlessly for up to 10 minutes. I then have to listen to him loudly blow his nose between each sneeze. So awful!

The loud nose blowing is my ExH. Full-on elephant trumpeting sound.

DP chews gum a lot, and loudly, particularly since he gave up smoking. He's doing it now, sat next to me on the sofa . He does the loud gulping thing when drinking too (and totally denies it)

Chewing drinks and dramatic gulps like he has the oesophageal bore hole of a Star Wars action figure can fuck right off.

My husband eating pork scratchings makes me contemplate divorce, he does it when we're in bed watching a film and all I can hear is him chomping

Oh I feel this post in my bones!

Oh yes. Slurping, gulping, clicking jaw .. DH is NOT the strong silent type.

He's now developed some kind of crepitus in his knees as he walks up and down stairs - it sounds like someone's constantly eating crisps on the landing....

I sympathise. My DH slurps and gulps. He does this thing with food like cucumber where he bites it all up with his front teeth really really fast instead of biting and chewing with his back teeth. It sounds like a manic rabbit.

Then... THEN he sucks his teeth for ten minutes after eating. This is usually as much as I can stand and have to leave the room or eviscerate him, whichever is most convenient at the time.

One of my kids as an issue breathing through his nose and makes a "Hghm, hghm" sound when eating. I adore that kid, but boy I have contemplated making him eat in the garden so many times.

It's not so much that misophonia is more common but that a lot of people have absolutely no manners and/or have never been brought up correctly and so aren't even aware of the fact their noisy eating is an issue.

Just leaving the bucket here. All this murdering, would be a shame to see those organs go to waste.

I often yell at DH when he eats crisps. In the next room.

My misophonia got worse during the menopause. Just saying....

I got a few hot flushes but my worse symptom is the severe intolerance to noise - eating,typing, water (fountains, even the water sloshing in an iron).

Ex used to eat with his mouth open and, despite many other things to list, I wanted to put it in the divorce petition. Menopause has actually made me a little more tolerant. Probably because my hearing is going!

I've insisted DH has a feeding tube inserted straight through his abdomen and into his stomach so that I don't have to listen to his infuriating chomping.

Literally pissing my pants at this entire thread!!! Funniest thing EVER🤣

Apples. APPLES!

Howling at this thread!!

But I’m joining the gang. I thought I was just mean. DH’s clunking of his plates with his cutlery. Grrr Christ the plate is almost clean - stop with the clink clink clink! And then he insists on eating food that’s too hot so he kind of has to eat it while trying to not let it hit any part of his mouth and sucking in a bit of air at the same time to cool the food and STOP. Jeez just let it cool a little.

The yogurt carton and the spoon. Scrape scrape scrape. THERE IS NO YOGURT LEFT IN THE CARTON!

Pasta, soup, coffee schlurp schlurp. Thing is, when I remind him, he doesn’t schlurp. So he can eat without schlurping. He says he likes schlurping. Seriously. I’ve often wondered about my marriage at mealtimes. Often.

DH is addicted to crisps. He can never eat just one packet, it always has to be two. He's been known to eat 4 packets in one day. He crunches them noisily, but that's not the worst of it... he then scrunches up the bags in his hand and stuffs them in his pocket, then carries on fiddling with them on and off, until he finally decides to get up and put them in the bin.
He also likes chewing gum when driving. I try to block out the noise but it's difficult when he's just 2 feet away.
Sometimes when it's quiet, he'll start tapping his fingers on a table or fiddling with a pen, or his keys, or he'll crack his knuckles. It's like he finds silence intolerable. Perhaps it's a man thing - being noisy as a way of unconsciously dominating the space? Or maybe there are lots of women like this too?
He's even noisy when he's asleep - snores so loudly we've slept in separate rooms for years.

I've had DH's jaws wired for exactly these reasons ^^

My DSis was known as the Cement Mixer at home as a child because of her noisy eating. I would like to say she has improved as an adult but she hasn’t. The words snack soup in a mug coming from her gob can get me hyperventilating.

Confession, I upend crisp packets into my gob, always have done!

I suffer with this too. My 4yr old is forever being told to close her mouth whilst eating.

Bit at those who are finding this thread "Hilarious" and are "howling" - what is so funny....!?

I mean.. humour in a dark situation. What's not to love.