Not farting in front of DH

[Dancingatthepinkponyclub]

Not really an AIBU but I love hearing what others think!

Have been with my DH for 18 years and have never intentionally farted in front of him. I mean I know it’s impossible to hold every fart in but he’s never actually heard one! If I need to I would go in another room or be discreet. My mum and sister are the same and a couple of friends. Also my DH is the same and won’t in front of me unless he does by mistake!

I know it’s natural and everyone does it but I’d never want to endure someone’s else’s fart nor make them endure mine! It hardly makes you attractive does it! That being said I wouldn’t fart in front of anyone… I mean maybe the dog!

what do you think?!

I've no problem letting them rip in the presence of my husband. However, today at church a small but deadly one escaped and I was mortified. I tried to play if off as "well, who did that???" lol.

We just fart.

We have sex, he's watched me give birth etc we're really past the point of holding in farts.

It's funny. It will always be funny. If 1 of us had to go to another room to pop one out we wouldn't spend much time together. Life is too short to not laugh at farts. God help all the uptight non farting brigade if you ever have to help your spouse with personal care through accident/illness/old age.

Never have intentionally, I didn't grow up in a home where we farted freely either.

Partner farts openly and gleefully in front of me and I find it repulsive and disrespectful.

Not generally upright 🙈

All the posters claiming ‘We’d never see each other if we had to go to another room to fart’ WTF are you eating?

Only mistakenly. Try not to and do say - excuse me.

I thought it was uptight af when people on here say they can’t take a shit anywhere but at home, now it turns out there’s another level of neurosis and some can’t even do it in THEIR OWN HOMES unless their husbands are out. Wild.

Reminds me of the story of the elderly lady who mentioned to her doctor that she "passes quite a lot of wind" but at least they were silent and didn't smell. Asked him if he thought she needed anything.

He prescribed her a nasal decongestant and two new batteries for her hearing aid.

Absolutely not 45 years married and neither of us do, ever, I think it’s revolting 🤮

@CharlotteLightandDark - not sure anyone has said THEY CANT DO IT IN THEIR OWN HOMES unless their husband is out, they just don’t do it right under their nose.

If you can't freely fart in your own home with your life partner then something is amiss!!

I don’t really like farting in front of people, no idea why I’m embarrassed about it as my whole family growing up made a running jokes of eachothers farts and announce when they’ve done one. But my partners always farting, they stink but I find it quite funny tbh 😂

We all fart freely in our house! Mine are noisy but rarely wiffy, DHs are more stealthy but properly wiffy!

Delightful.

So, you can fart on demand? Just curious bc I can’t, only when I’m gassy not bc I want to. Haha

This thread has reduced me to tears of laughter, as well as reminding me of numerous indiscretions of mine & people around me...I remember years ago demonstrating a cylinder vacuum cleaner to a customer in the store I worked in. I said "you switch it on here..." and she said "let me try" and promptly let one rip as she bent over to fire it up.

I never have and when we were first together I told him I found it deeply unattractive as he was a farty bloke and 27 years old.

He carried on for a while but gradually got the message you fart and smell then no sex!

Accidentally etc I'm not arsed but he was the fart and hold your head under the duvet type, thinking he was funny. Blurgh...

We are a free farting family,
I would love to be able to fart on demand but as someone with IBS sometimes you just can't take the risk.

Agree, it's not funny. You need to put these boundaries in place at the start of a relationship. Well done for doing so and to him for respecting them.

I agree. We don't go out of our way to let rip a stinky one right next to each other, but we are not embarrassed to have a fart if needed. It's just part of life and having a working body. We still find each other attractive, no problem there!

Let the wind blow high
Let the wind blow free
Or else it will killeth thee

God this is close to my heart today - I ate industrial quantities of celeriac and pak Choi last night and I’ve been dropping some absolute eye-waterers. I don’t intentionally fart in front of DH, but I do wake us both up by farting quite often. (I tut at him, roll over and go back to sleep!)

OTOH DH stores them all up till morning, then goes into the en suite for a wee and releases a 5-minute trumpet solo. That’s just witchcraft IMO.

Enjoying the phrases people use whilst trying to avoid the f word. These in particular:
occasional slips
uncaring blasts
😄

Posters saying “it’s a normal bodily function!” so is taking a dump, but I wouldn’t do that in the middle of the living room either.

I don’t pretend I don’t fart, but I also don’t see the problem with a bit of consideration (if possible). Same as I wouldn’t just fart in the middle of a restaurant or wherever.

No, 2 people said this.

I’m not gonna scroll back through 10 pages so take me word for it