DH just asked me not to fart in front of him

[Nobhobs]

I don't make a point of doing it, but every now and then it happens. It's natural and can't always be helped? He on the other hand forces out massive loud farts, makes eye contact and faces whilst he does it. I usually roll my eyes and laugh/shake my head but all in good humour. Just sat on the sofa and I let out a small one (not loud, forced or smelly) and he sighed and said "seriously can you please not fart in front of me"

I'm a bit lost for words. I'm actually a bit upset with him. He's my bloody husband and now I need to feel insecure about farting? We're completely comfortable around each other, I've just had our bloody baby he's seen far worse than a little fart. He thinks IBU for getting upset about it and thinks it's a fair request. I think he's being an arsehole.

Well I suppose it's not very feminine to fart 💨 in front of your dh. Maybe he wants a lady like wife and not 'one of the lads?'

Surely on that note, it’s not very ‘gentlemanly’ to fart in front of your wife either? Maybe she wants a gentlemanly husband, not a stinking slob?

I think being able to control your farts must be some kind of Super Power

I wish I had it. I find it amazing that there are people who have never had an accidental fart.
In the last year I've had three audible accidental ones in circumstances that the memories of, are making me blush as I'm typing.

I eat a mostly vegetarian diet with a lot of the usual beans and chickpeas which make me quite windy as a result. Yet much to my astonishment, I have never - at least since childhood - had an embarrasing farty experience! And I'm a teacher, so the potential for fart-related embarrasment is huge!

Well I suppose it's not very feminine to fart 💨 in front of your dh. Maybe he wants a lady like wife and not 'one of the lads?

Turn that one around. Is it gentlemanly for men to fart in front of their wives? I doubt it, although I really don't care.

I would far rather be relaxed and able to enjoy a cracking good fart in my own home. If DH wants to do the same then good for him (he does sometimes).

Don't worry about it. I really don't get why people get so uptight about farting.

I'm Just imagining @Nobhobs and hubby having a farting contest 😂

Wow this thread has moved on. I said 'had' IBS in the past tense as I had it intermittently over 15 yrs until I changed my diet.

Had to give up my beloved spicy foods and favourite green veg, broccoli and cabbage etc. Gave up alcohol for 6 years etc. Coke/Diet Coke, anything fizzy and fried food. Basically all the fun stuff.

Not sure how this is helping OP though since she doesn't have it.

Well I suppose it's not very feminine to fart 💨 in front of your dh. Maybe he wants a lady like wife and not 'one of the lads?

Well, it's not very gentlemanly to impose double standards on your spouse.
Maybe OP wants a non-hypocritical husband, not a two-faced judgemental farty twat?

I made a strange hooting sound and farted.

@ClutchinMahPurrrls laughed so much at this it HURTS dammit.

How on earth is it not feminine to fart when you need to? It's just a normal bodily function. That's like saying that sneezing or coughing or rubbing your eyes when you wake up are masculine but not feminine traits when they're just something mundane that humans do.

You have to ask him not to fart in front of you either. When he realises what a pain it is to not do it at home with you, he will realise that you are not making a fuss about nothing.

I don't particularly like my partner farting but wouldn't be so hypocritical.

I also never understand what you are supposed to do at home if you have never farted in front of your partner - do people honestly rush up to the loo??? Surely the acoustics there would make it louder???

I also never understand what you are supposed to do at home if you have never farted in front of your partner - do people honestly rush up to the loo??? Surely the acoustics there would make it louder??? grin

Ooh, yes - Maximum Porcelain Reverb!

Also, when people pretend inform us that they never fart in front of their partners, do they mean that they never blow off at all in their presence or just that they employ careful sphincteral acrobatics to tease it out silently? If so, that could actually be considered as worse - extremely ungallant to deliberately withhold sounding the alarm to warn those present that the air is about to turn fuggy with a certain unpleasant pong.

@expatinspain He wasn’t trusted to run a bath alone for a good six months!! It wasn’t the first time he had made it too hot and burned himself.

For some reason, my brain put 2 and 2 together and came up with 53 - thinking that he burned himself and suffered resulting to toileting ability problems by lighting a fart after a particularly potent vindaloo.

Holding in farts is never a good idea.

Just trust me.

Don't get arsey with him, just say. "Ok no problem, let's make a pact to not do it in front of each other" see how long he lasts before he realises how ridiculous this request is.

My DH said this to me once. He was just being a grumpy twat. He farts and burps himself if he feels the need. I think I've probably 🙄 at him of he's guffed when I've been annoyed with him. I know how you feel though OP. He made me feel grubby.

Well gorky is it grubby to fart in front of your dh. Its not at all polite.

@SacramentoMN Sorry, I just arfed at Don't get arsey with him on a fart thread
(i'm clearly 5)

When his shits smell of roses is the time when you stop farting in front of him.

Say that same back to him. Tosser.

Well gorky is it grubby to fart in front of your dh. Its not at all polite

It’s not polite for him to fart in front of her either.

Buy him the kids' book 'Noisy Bottoms' and remind him, as my mother says, 'even the Queen does it'.
Preposterous man.