DH farts stink - caused argument

[TwodayTuesday]

DH used to drink protein shakes and he would make the worst smell you could imagine. It would actually wake me up in the middle of the night and I'd have to go and sleep on the sofa.

After putting up with this for years, I had enough and jokingly said that I would move out if he didn't stop drinking the protein shakes. I actually meant it though.

Well he stopped! Life was lovely and I got to sleep in my bed without it feeling like someone had rubbed dog muck in my face.

Cut to now, about 2 years later and he had started training at the gym again and he has come home, farted and stunk the whole house out. It lingers in the air for like 20 minutes! God knows what his insides must be like.

I'm now in a foul mood. From 1 fart. AIBU? What would you do in this situation? I know I am overreacting but I don't want to smell his shit!

I'd tell him you can once again smell his colon and he needs to pack it in!

Ah I stink sometimes but I have ibs I can’t help it.

I can’t imagine wanting to have the kind of gas that smells like something died was eaten by something else that crawled up your butt and also died. It’s bloody horrible and embarrassing and frankly the gas hurts.

Yanbu his choosing to stink.

He's doing it through choice, it's not a medical condition. It should be him sleeping on the sofa.

I would tell him to stop with all the protein and balance out his gut microbiome with LOTS of fibre. Personal trainers love to tell people to increase protein, but you still need fibre to balance it out.

It sounds like you need to have a more serious conversation if this really bothers you

He needs to go outside to fart rather than stink the whole house out (and wake you up). Or, quit these protein shakes - it doesn't sound like they are of much benefit to his insides - are they even particularly 'healthy' things to be having, especially since it causes so much bad smell?

Not pleasant, he needs to stop.

Get him to try the vegan ones, maybe that would help. I can't do the dairy ones but vegan fine

Tell him to start taking charcoal supplements every day (3 half an hour before the shake and another 3 after the shake). It that doesn’t improve it then he has to stop drinking them altogether. They don’t agree with him; his body is showing him a negative reaction. He needs to stop.

An ex used to do this and it genuinely made me so angry.

The smell was grotesque and vomit inducing, all purely selfish behaviour drinking rotten protein shakes all the time. It would linger for ages and travel right through the house. Not the occasional harmless fart, but horrible wet, loud and disgusting smelling.

It made him so unattractive to me, i started to associate him with that smell.

Other things resulted in the relationship ending, but I can't tell you how at peace I am not having to put up with that smell.

Get him some charcoal pants and fart pills

I'm sorry for your DH and all the jolly farters out there, but indoor farting is a privilege of the singletons.

If you live with someone, toilets or garden.

I don't make the rule.

Get him some hemp protein powder, it's chalky and not particularly nice to drink but it doesn't make you stink.

He should do this not her.

DH has started back on protein shakes. He doesn't smell so much but the farts are quite noisy and I'm pretty sure next door will be able to hear it and think we are complete nutters.
If he's causing that much doom he needs to at least point his bum out the door. I'd say window but you don't want to risk him falling out now, do you?

Oh God, that would drive me berserk. My son has Crohn's and therefore no control over the fumes he produces sometimes and even then I feel so sickened by the smell (not that I would ever let him know that as it's embarrassing enough for him.) But someone knowingly eating a diet that causes this would be a REALLY big problem for me as once I get a bad smell in my nose, I imagine I can smell it for hours after. Like a phantom smell😬😆 One of SIL's dogs jumps up and sits beside me on the sofa and has the worst breath I have ever smelt. It makes me gag. Anyway, you need to tell DP to sleep somewhere else. Why should you be inconvenienced? Or he could just eat a properly balanced diet instead of one that is so protein heavy. Those farts are a warning sign that his body is out of kilter.

Yeah but he's a farty arse

The smell is caused by undigested materials and bacteria in the colon. He can control that. He needs to go to the spare room.

Biogaia probiotics might help.

Protein Works vegan protein powder. The least farty of any of the proteins I drank.

Toilets, air fresheners, open windows, room spray all exist for a reason and he's decided to subject you to a smell he knows you hate? Genuinely disgusting.

OMG, I expect his colleagues love him.

It’s very disrespectful to you so frankly, if he gets defensive and won’t be more considerate, sort out a way forward which works for you both, I’d kick him out. In a subtle way it’s a kind of abuse.

No way would I live with a disrespectful bag of sewage.

Protein shakes don’t have this effect on me, which one does he have and how many a day? For the sake of 20-30g protein he could eat another small meal and it wouldn’t have this effect

I'd find that intolerable. I couldn't cope with not being able to sleep comfortably in my own bed and I'd feel nauseous at the smell. It sounds so dramatic and ridiculous to say that over bloody farting and I can see how it wouldn't be a problem for some, but it would be unbearable for me. I can't see how he isn't even slightly embarrassed that he stinks to that degree by choice. He can't imagine you find that attractive?

Surely when you're going to fart you've a small window of opportunity to stick your arse out the door or window, or go outside? Or do it in the toilet? That does sound really disgusting. Does he not get embarrassed? What if he did it in public?