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How long did it take for you to be on 'farting' terms with your DPs

452 replies

fuckyeahpercywigwam · 29/07/2021 17:37

This is not really an AIBU, but inspired by the hilarious 'he shat in the garden' thread.

My friend's daughter has been married for seven years...child-free..but her and her DH have never farted in each other's hearing. Nope. They discreetly remove themselves to the loo.

I cannot believe this.

OP posts:
Truthseeker34 · 29/07/2021 21:20

I feel ashamed reading these posts ...

SchrodingersImmigrant · 29/07/2021 21:20

I am doing Kondo!
I discard gasses which no longer bring me joy 😁

deeplyambivalent · 29/07/2021 21:21

To be fair, some people have incredibly trouble-free digestive systems so I guess it's easy to be sanctimonious about it. But we're probably in the minorityshe said smugly

Biscoffbiscou · 29/07/2021 21:25

4 years

It happens occasionally, by accident, and when it does we laugh. Has never been awkward.

However we don’t fart round each other habitually. I don’t ever plan to! Can’t imagine sitting round each other farting away all the time, gross.

Fairfeather · 29/07/2021 21:30

@HasaDigaEebowai

22 years and never. Neither do we go to the loo in front of one another. Why would you?
Because not everyone has hang ups and is comfortable being human?
MirandaMarple · 29/07/2021 21:31

@Truthseeker34

I feel ashamed reading these posts ...
For who?
Steelesauce · 29/07/2021 21:31

Farting is just one of those things, it doesn't bother me at all. I farted in front of my ex and I fart in front of my current fling. I also fart in front of friends and colleagues, even my boss (they all do so too, we work in health care so farting is part of the job). Cant be doing with the belly ache holding it in.

People saying you wouldn't do it in public, a lot of people do sneaky silent ones in public. Crop dusting Grin

HopingForOurRainbowBaby · 29/07/2021 21:35

Neither of us are prudes. In fact we're slightly immature and find it funny. Although it did take me a bit longer though

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 29/07/2021 21:37

all my farty friends, I have 2 words for you: Dutch oven

😉

Stakhanovite · 29/07/2021 21:40

"I think not-farting has become the new competitive-how-many-hundreds-of-people-can-you-feed-with-one-chicken."

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll sage words.

DeadButDelicious · 29/07/2021 21:42

I can't remember (it's been 17 years) but it must of been early on. It's not a big deal, farts are normal, sometimes they are funny (I do find trumping quite funny tbh) mostly its just a little trump, life goes on.

My DP has seen me through having two children, food poisoning, norovirus, he has seen every single bit of my naked body. Occasionally we have had to be in the same room while the other pees (when one of us was in the shower and it was an urgent need for example), we've spent almost two decades together, he's seen me at my best and at my absolute worst, if I can't fart in front of him then I think that's a bit sad.

But clearly that makes us gross.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 29/07/2021 21:44

I'd like to see a Venn-diagram of "will fart - will pee in shower"

DeadButDelicious · 29/07/2021 21:46

DH not DP.

SchrodingersImmigrant · 29/07/2021 21:46

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

I'd like to see a Venn-diagram of "will fart - will pee in shower"
Water saving!
MiaMarshmallows · 29/07/2021 21:46

Laughing loudly at the people who say they accidentally let one go during an argument with their partner. Grin

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 29/07/2021 22:04

We've both got a section of hose pipe 'duct taped' to the sofa for such events. The hose pipes terminate in the hall and provided one is discrete in 'inserting' it a 'parp' can go virtually unnoticed.
I perhaps should add that on one occasion, after a bean-packed chilli con carne it did sound like a massed bands of alpine horns in the hall. Even the cat was startled enough to create a puddle by the front door and she never normally does that!

WrongWayApricot · 29/07/2021 22:09

After I've snapped of course.

Loyaultemelie · 29/07/2021 22:10

My Dh farts all the time as do Dds. I most certainly do not the cat however seems to fart a lot when she's beside me Grin

HasaDigaEebowai · 29/07/2021 22:14

Because not everyone has hang ups and is comfortable being human?

I don’t have hang ups at all. Quite happy wandering around naked etc just don’t see why it would be attractive to see my Dh on the loo. We’ve always had multiple bathrooms and it’s never been necessary.

CrouchEndTiger12 · 29/07/2021 22:15

Never!

Hearing a man fart disgusts me too.

CrouchEndTiger12 · 29/07/2021 22:16

@ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba

all my farty friends, I have 2 words for you: Dutch oven

😉

I would kick them out of the bed onto the floor for that
Biancadelrioisback · 29/07/2021 22:24

Ha! I've got IBS and fart all the fucking time! Literally cant help it.
Think I did it within the first year and DH a bit later

PercyPigAndMe · 29/07/2021 22:30

I don't like it but I'm commenting as I read one of the funniest phrases I've heard for blowing off (sorry I can't type the word beginning with F!') on here recently. Some poster said whenever her or her husband did it, they'd announce 'and it's a clear round for David Broome' which for some reason absolutely had me hooting.

IncorrigibleTitmouse · 29/07/2021 22:32

For me, never. I would never fart in front of anyone, knowingly! DH does, but he knows I don't appreciate it. He went through a phase of weeing with the door open or when I was in the bathroom too. It put me right off.

BashfulClam · 29/07/2021 22:33

I did it accidentally about a month in my and then we just became relaxed. He actually typed into the computer as he had it in his lap ‘my girlfriend farts’ and the first reply said ‘where there is gas there is love!’ We actually shout ‘toot’ when we hear the other one. I get a sore stomach holding it in and everyone does it. We don’t per or poop in front of each other though as that’s possibly a step too far.