To expect my DH not to eat garlic if I haven't been eating it too?

[Gunnerbean]

Sorry but whilst I've nothing against garlic and am not adverse to eating it myself in some foods, the smell of it on peoples breath when I haven't been eating it myself literally makes me wretch.

If DH goes out and has a curry/kebab or something and I haven't had any and he comes back smelling of garic, I can't tolerate him being in the bedroom. The smell of his breath in the room can even wake me up out of a deep sleep. It's vile and it last the whole of teh next day too. Toothpaste and chewing gum can't mask it either - YUCK!!!!

If I know he's having it, I can have it too and then it's not a problem - we can stink together and neither can smell it - but I have to have advance warning if he's having it!

Anyone else with similar feelings on garlic who has to lay down the law like me?

oh what a fab thread.

If dp eats a yogurt or cold custard I cannot sit on the sofa next to him and if it is close to bedtime there will be no hanky panky.

get a bloody life!

yes but twinset does it wake you from a deep sleep?

YABU

Me or the OP, have you come from the rudeness thread?

No it doesnt donnie but I one did wake up to see dp licking a yogurt lid while in bed with me.

I had to sleep in the spare room.

I used to feel a bit like this about an exbf of mine who drank a lot of milk.....it somehow seemed to come out of every pore on him and really turned my stomach!

I forgot my ultimate turn off, those milkshakes in a bottle. They have been banned from the house while I am in it, the thought makes me want to vomit.

the op of course.i am hoping to get sent to naughty corner

Yes I cant watch someone drink milk either, god knows how I got through motherhood.

MN is particularly bitchy tonight...

If the smell of garlic can wake you from your sleep and makes you gag, then you are obviously very sensitive to it.

I suspect these same women would be up in arms if it was a smell as offensive to them..

I would eat more, tbh, if I was your partner. I love garlic, hardly have a meal without it, so much so, I don't notice it at all on anyone any more. Just eat it and enjoy it.

Well I think you are very rude notnow I will happily send you to the naughty corner

one of our family members used to be addicted to garlic pills- I couldn't stand visiting him in the summer when it was hot and he would sweat digustingly garlicky smell!!!

my sympathies!

I have a very sensitive sense of smell, my DH wears too much aftershave (more than 6 decent sized bottles per year).

It can make me feel physically ill.

He knows this and continues to do so.

I have every sympathy.

I love curry, he hates it, he cannot even cope with the smell. I do not have it when he is in the house, I only eat one if he is away for the night. It is called consideration.

general garlic yabu

foul kebab stench mixed with beer = night in spare room

this thread is hilarious

I have a major aversion to runnerbeans meself, I have to divorce my dh if he eats them

btw, I posted this after reading the other thread, just to further irritate the OP

I am soooo wanting to start a pointless new thread on people's favourite weird smells. Mine is petrol. Or least favourite: bananas.

Somebody else do it!

But you can do without curry every night so consideration about that is relatively easy. Most tasty meals contain garlic; I don't consider it an exotic ingredient.

maybe you're a vampire

I wonder if Gunnerbean likes runner beans?

I looooove the smell of hot tarmac

My pet hate are couliflower cheese farts-

WE DON'T COOK IT IN MY HOUSE- last time my hubby almost made me vomit! yuckkkkkk