Husband farting is giving me the ick

[Marriedtoafarter]

What can I do / say to stop my husband farting so much. He claims he can’t help it but I can hear he forces them out and they stink. I’ve said it isn’t fair for me to breathe in that air, said it gives me the ick, asked politely, asked sharply, asked so many times for it to stop and it does maybe for an hour or two but then he will fart again when we go to bed for example and it makes me shudder.

I love him so much but it makes me not want to cuddle or kiss him let alone anything else!!!

Any advice??? 😷

Perhaps OP could buy him a tiny plastic container, in which he could keep a bit of his most recent poo. He could keep this about his person, and in company, he could take it out, open it and invite the assembled people to inhale the stink. A bit like passing the snuff box. What's not to like?

Stand up and turn the telly off at the wall or the lights off, or something equally maddening.

Make him sleep on spare room if you have 1. If not couch

Why wouldn't one give one's family/housemates the same courtesy as one gives colleagues in the workplace?

With exceptions for medical conditions, there is zero way I would be attracted to someone so boorish, uncouth and crass as the OP's husband. It reeks (no pun intended) of total contempt for his partner.

It’s his diet. I fart like that when I drink protein shakes. You end up forcing them out as the wind is uncomfortable and Unfortauntely it stinks.
He can help it by changing his diet x

I think most people prefer to feel a tad more comfortable in their own home than they do in their workplace…

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Just come back from a cycle with the husband, arse in the air farting while cycling, when we are walking he farts and others are in ear shot (so embarrasing) he has just come down the stairs farting mutiple times very loudly and is laughing at this thread. My older sons (21) farts can be heard reverberating through his bedroom floor and the kitchen ceiling. Husband is off to cut the hedge along the pavement where we live so he's actually a good egg! He says that his farts are loud but that my lady farts are deadly!

I guess we don't find it "uncomfortable" to limit our flatulence to private areas. Just as we prefer to urinate, defecate and perform other acts alone.

The "let it all hang out" school of thought might work for some, but I (and many other people) prefer to maintain a bit of mystery and privacy with SOs, and expect the same from them.

So how can you put up with it?

If you haven't got a spare bedroom I would suggest two separate houses

That's sooo disrespectful and nasty

Does he do it to his boss?

Mine doesn’t do it in front of me , the odd time he has done it when I’m out the room he blames the dog but he usually goes to one of the toilets to let it out thankfully

He needs to check his diet

A friend of mine's husband had, over time, developed really stinky farts. Combined with his snoring and the revolting farts she moved into the spare room.

One night, a couple of years ago, he complained of feeling quite unwell and asked to go to the hospital.

It seems the really stinky, disgusting farts were indicative of a major obstruction in his intestines which were about to explode! He was whisked into surgery that night and was intensive care for 2 weeks. He now has a permanent stoma bag as he had to have so much removed.

As others have said, if the smell is new - get him checked out.

If it's not and he's just being a disgusting person, then YANBU to avoid him at all costs.

I don't mind a fart joke every so often. Occasionally they do pop out and it's usually very funny when they do (DH and I were crying laughing the other day when he innocently bent down to pick something up and the most enormous fart popped out - the surprised "ooh" gave away that it very much was unexpected), but deliberately letting out ones that you know are going to be stinky is vile.

My ex used to deliberately fart close to me.

He ate a diet designed to produce awful stinking farts (just because he sneered at any suggestion of healthy eating etc) and would then make a point of farting to make things unpleasant for me. While pretending it was a huge joke of course)

Funnily enough, when we had separated but were still living in the same house and he started dating there was a sudden interest in healthier eating and indigestion tablets and home remedies and charcoal biscuits aimed at reducing stinking farts.

To those who find it controlling and uptight to complain, If you haven't experienced passive aggressive (or just downright aggressive) farting, you don't know what you're on about!

No. Loads of people can't help it. Excessive wind is uncomfortable, nobody would choose it.

I know when it will happen, but I can't prevent it neither do I have time to go to another room.

Not true. Plenty of people can't control it, but it's not always thAt smelly.

Not everyone has that time and the tablets don't work.

Only on MN do people think that you can hold in a fart!

It's completely different to holding in a bowel movement.

We all fart. That's a thing.
However, my ex also used to do the vile ones that he squeezed out, just like the OP. And they think it's funny, like an 8 year old would. Yes, sometimes when someone farts, it is amusing, but when it is deliberate, it is definitely ick inducing.
I'm glad I don't have to suffer this any more.

Yep.

Yeah, sounds like he's doing it on purpose. Disgusting.

No, it isn't. Both are controlled by sphincter and every pelvic PT (or any person with anatomy knowledge) will tell you that if you can't control your farts, you need to see someone about your pelvic muscles.

I could have written this. I swear my husband has some kind of intolerance but will he go get it checked out?? No...

If you are so sure about that, then explain to me why a diagnosis of flatus bowel incontinence exists? There is literally a medical diagnosis of inability to hold farts which suggests that a healthy individual is able to hold them just fine through the mechanisms I described earlier.