Husband's flatulence problems

[wingpurple]

My husband's flatulence problems are really starting to affect our relationship. Now before you think this is a a troll, i forgot my email after so long of not coming on. Am a long term user. This is a genuine issue.

He does it when I'm eating and puts me off my food. He doesn't try to hide it in anyone's presence and it's so bad that it seems to soak into the bed linen and his clothes. I have to change the bed sheets up to 3 times a week which I think is excessive. I have encouraged him to go to the doctors but he refuses to think that there might be something wrong. I am thinking he may have IBS or something similar.

He tries to pass it off on his diet but we eat the same things and I'm pregnant and I do not pass wind on his level. It has actually made me vomit on several occasions. I have even taken to sleeping on the sofa some nights because the stench is that bad.

Now here's the interesting part. Some may say that he is being immature and should control it like everyone else does. I agree but I think it comes from his childhood. I have noticed that MIL is also the same. She loudly passes wind in front of visitors, in public, when people are eating and doesn't apologise. She thinks it's hilarious and normal (she's 50 with good health). So DH has never been taught that it isn't normal and it's actually quite rude and disgusting. I'm not his mother so I can't 're-teach' him that what he's doing isn't notmal. I can't physically force him to go to the doctors either.

I feel that if it continues I may have to leave him. I really wish his mother had done a better job of raising him.

Another one here who's ex did this. My new partner has a medical problem and the medication he takes causes excessive trumps. He takes himself off to the bathroom.

Presuming you've made your feelings very clear about it , it's probably time for some action. If he's stinking your bed out insist he sleeps somewhere else , on the sofa if necessary. Same goes for when your eating , leave the room or insist he does. Or get rid. It's disrespectful and can't be doing much for your sex life.

I find some families (ex's) find farting a source of endless amusement. I don't and never have so couldn't be with a man like this. The sheets thing suggests he really could be ill.

Get him some of these pants

www.myshreddies.com/flatulence/mens/hipsters

OP, by 'soak in' do you mean that his acute fart smell lingers in your sheets until you wash them? Do you have to press your nose to the sheets to smell it, or can you smell it just by moving the sheet without him even there?

I am so grossed out that I cannot stop laughing at this. While I'm sure my fiancé farts, I have almost never heard him do one. Literally. Although his children insist he does them. We don't even do poos when the other is nearby. Personally I feel there is no harm in maintaining some mystery within a couple.

I also can't stop thinking that if he does that to the sheets, then surely his clothes reek too? How awful...stinky jeans etc...

De finely get him allergy tested. Milk intolerance comes to mind. Perhaps try soya or goats milk for a few weeks.

Thue came to mind...

Oh what a sleekit, horrible beastie
Lurks in yer stomach efter a feastie
As ye sit doon amang yer kin,
There starts to stir a michty wind.

The neeps and tatties and mushie peas,
Stert workin like a gentle breeze
But soon the puddin' wi' the sonsie face
Will hiv ye blawin' a' ower the place.

Nae matter whit the hell ye dae
A?'body's gonnae huv tae pay
Even if ye try tae stifle,
It's like a bullet oot a rifle.

Haud yer bum tight tae the chair
Tae try tae stop the leakin' air.
Shift yersel' fae cheek tae cheek
An' pray to God it disnae reek.

But a' yer efforts go assunder,
Oot it comes like a clap o' thunder.
It ricochets aroon' the room,
Michty me! A sonic boom!

God almighty, It fairly reeks
(I hope a hivnae' shit ma breeks)
Straight tae the bog ah better scurry
Aw whit the hell, It's no ma worry.

A'body roon'aboot me's chokin'
Wan or twa are nearly bokin'.
Ah'll feel much better fur a while,
Ah cannae help but raise a smile.

'Twis him!! Ah shout, wi' accusin' glower.
Alas, tae late. He's jist keeled ower.
'Ye mingin' clert!' They shout and stare.
Ah amnae welcome ony mair.

Where e'er ye be, Let yer wind gang free
(Sounds jist the job fir thee an me)
Whit a fuss at Rabbies pairty
Ower the sake o' wan wee ferty.

OP - my DP was exactly the same. He trumped all the time, didn't seem to have the same muscle control as the rest of us.
I went on a Low-Carb diet, and cut out all wheat, potato and rice. His symptoms vanished overnight. He was gluten intolerant, and is fine now, we've introduced rice and potato but wheat is a total no-no.

No bread, biscuits, cakes, pasta etc and the weight has dropped off too!

He doesn't have a flatulence 'problem', he has no boundaries and simply doesn't care.

*Peggyundercrackers
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I'm having s coughing fit from laughing at that!

Did he fart before you married him?

I love that poem put up by Peggy.

Sorry All this talk of farting made me remember this from school.

Beans beans they're good for your heart
The more you eat the more you fart
The more you fart
The better you feel
So let's have beans with every meal.

His mum sounds equally childish and disgusting. She thinks it's funny to fart when people are eating ? She wouldn't be welcome at my house.

We used to have that one too, Peggy.