DH kicking off as I want to uninvite DMIL/DSIL from Christmas Day

[Christmasdayissue]

NC’d for this. Please can people let me know if they think IABU.

Background - DH and I recently moved into our own home after renting for years and having limited space.

Yesterday we hosted DMIL and DSIL for a roast. Both have stomach problems - fine. However, they spent the hour following the roast sat in our living room openly breaking wind and making no attempt to hide this fact. In front of our two young DC (both found it hilarious). No apology from either of them, the only acknowledgment being ‘well you know we have stomach issues and eating that makes it flare up’.

DH didn’t say anything to them. When I told him after they left that I found it disgusting, he said I was prudish and that they can’t help it. I asked why they couldn’t leave the room. He said it’s good they feel at home and he grew up with them being like that so doesn’t see the issue.

I’ve told him today I don’t want them to come on Christmas Day as planned if that’s how they will behave, and set such an awful example to our DC. He said how dare I threaten that and if I ever thought that was appropriate then he’d simply go out for lunch with them to a pub instead.

Completely agree with him. Your shit does stink which is why you don’t do it publicly 😅

Correct!

There is discreetly passing wind (we all do it) and competition level farting with accompanying hilarity.

Just force feed them a bottle of Pepto-Bismol each straight after eating. Bingo! No farting.

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Stand firm, OP

I’m missing my cat who we lost a week ago. So feeling sad but thanks OP, you’ve really made me laugh with that one.

I always wondered why my family insisted on going on a walk into the depths of nowhere after Christmas Dinner - it must have been the fart walk

The odd slip out is one thing but sitting in the fumes of your MIL’s IBS sprout farts all evening is quite another. Not even an attempt to contain them to the bathroom?? No one finds that w nice relaxing festive atmosphere, surely.

Can you imagine what they'd be like after the sprouts? I think you should invite them but get your husband to tell them that you don't think farting in front of the kids sets a good example and its pretty rank, so they can just walk outside of the room and let their gas go there.

My sprout farts could clear a Tesco extra. So I only have them a couple of times a year at home🫣

But you’re perfectly aware your shit stinks and that’s why you don’t sit around purposely filling other peoples living rooms with your poo-ridden arse gas..

I think it's a bit rude to be sitting doing that in someone else's home but at the same time I'd hate to have someone confined to the loo on Xmas day or in pain from trying to hold it all in.

I would offer up peppermint tea and schedule a walk after lunch is served to let them get it all out in the fresh air!

I certainly don't think it's enough to cancel Christmas over. And you should be able to teach your kids that it's a medical issue they don't have and therefore shouldn't be copying.

He has actually proved the point with his stupid comment!

You know shit and farts stink - which is why people don't like to do them in public

He isn't overly bright is he. Maybe he was gassed too much when young

Another thing to look forward to now I am getting older then... Flappy anus! Bloody marvellous.

Book the Brewers Fayre! You can cook a nice meal for you and kids the following day.

Them coming. He says as he pays more towards the Mortgage he gets the final say.

And you do the cooking...................so that gives you a say too.

Oh that is much viler than a fart.

ETA what I thought was essentially a light-hearted thread has taken a dark turn.

I was already giggling at the thread, but this made me 😂🤣

A friend is like this - she toots with every step, cough, sneeze, laugh, sitting down, standing up. She has given up saying ‘oops, pardon’ because that is all she’d ever say. Our bodies are designed to let it out, or we’d burst from the build up.

I am glad the children found it funny - better that than a face like a bulldog chewing a wasp. Life is far too short to get all Mrs Bucket over a bit of inert gas being released. I like somebody’s humorous suggestion of putting some tinsel around a notice saying ‘fart-free zone’. Choose to laugh rather than stress it.

On the one hand they might be two old people who have less control and you ought to feel sorry for them and remember that old age comes to us all.

On the other, farts are hilarious and you can play a secret game with your kids to decide who farts the most and who farts the loudest and then give a prize to the kid who guesses correctly.

Nothing to get so prudish and miserable about. One day you'll be in the same situation, the oldest in the room, desperately hoping your DIL doesn't throw you out for some minor misdemeanour. How sad...

one of them is 30..

Wow! Your DH's a fucking prick.

Your inlaws are vile too. I've had similar issues myself in the past and never behaved like them.

Yabu. It's not ideal but people fart, people with stomach issues more so. I wouldn't be saying someone couldn't come on Christmas over it and I certainly wouldn't accept my partner saying my family couldn't come over because they fart too much.

Don’t believe everything you read online.

I’d divorce both of you.