Okay, so I wanna know...do you fart, fluff, toot, pass wind, etc. in front of your significant other?
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I had to ask, 'cuz I was talking with a co-worker, who won't even pee in front of her fiance...she happened to "sneak" in the bathroom while he was showering, only to sit on the pot just as he shut the shower off. She said "DON'T OPEN THE CURTAIN!!!"...he started to laugh, she did too...then she farted, and was mortified!
I thought it was pretty hilarious, especially since she turned 87 shades of red just telling the story, but...gosh, are there loads of people who don't fluff in front of their spouse?
Never, never, never. Even if my gut explodes.
I may suddenly leave the room to go find something downstairs that I forgot and inexplicably need to go grab it at this very second.
But wild horses will not make me fluff in front of my man.
I have been married for 5 years and have finally just started to be able to pee in front of my husband. whether he be in the shower and I sneak in to go or if he happens to be brushing his teeth or something, I can pee... but that is it. He's always telling everyone when the subject comes up that "apparently my wife doesn't poop or fart. it's amazing!!" I can't do it, I don't know why either because he can do it front of me and laugh his head off about it! And I'll do the same thing, I'll suddenly leave the room to grab something or make a call, etc, etc... just so he doesn't hear me!! So yes, to answer your question, I am one of those who refuses to fart in front of my hubby!
By the way, that co-worker story made me laugh so hard I almost fluffed!!!
But I didn't. I just went downstairs.
hahaha
I have been with my husband since high school and we are 33 now. He has slipped in front of me, but never toots on purpose and I NEVER toot in front of him. I'm sure he's heard me in the bathroom, but that DOESN'T count, no way!
We also don't pee in front of each other, but when we only had one bathroom, I would pee while he was in the shower, but I wouldn't let him look. I know we are strange, but I just can't do it!
Quite frankly, my sis is married to a guy that is constantly belching and farting and while I don't think there's anything actually wrong with letting a fart slip now and then, it's pretty gross to be around it constantly.
This is hilarious - hope it is nice downstairs :)
I had a friend tell me that the sign that you are comfortable in a relationship,is when you can 'fart' in front of your loved one.
Myself I try to be polite and leave the room, or be as discreet as possible - but there is really nothing more fun then letting a real stink go, just before your husband gets into bed, and just lie there smiling sweetly.
My husband and I have strange boundaries. Under no circumstances will we use the bathroom in front of each other. But my husband has absolutely no issue with farting around me.
My mother raised me to leave the room if I have to pass gas. My husband and I have been together for 6 years, and until recently I ALWAYS left the room. Once I didn't make it, and I honestly cried in embarrassment because he made such a big deal about it.
Then in June I had an emergency C-section and now all bets are off. When they take your innards out and put them back in, apparently a side effect is being ridiculously gassy. I'm hopeful that this isn't permanent.
What am I going to do, leave the room and make up an excuse? We've been together for so long, he's had to endure FAR worse than my farts. He watched two giant baby heads emerge from my vagina. I think he can handle it.
Is it bad form to tell you I wrote a whole blog on this very topic? My house and family are 100% shame-free. There's just too much laughter to be had over a really good fart. Sorry if that offends anyone. Don't come to my house on burrito night.
Yeah. We're dainty like that.
But never ever do we use the bathroom in front of one another. Door closed for sure.
Oh, man! You guys are hilarious!!
The Hus and I fart in front of each other on a regular basis...he more than I!
And, like redvixen...the best are the SBD one's under the covers...with a covert little fluff of the covers, and then watching his face!! Too good to pass up!
My husband says the honeymoon is over when he gives me the good old dutch oven.
Sixteen years worth of honeymoon and it may end at any time. It keeps our marriage exciting!
Totally. If I can't let one go in front of someone then I am not comfortable with them and that makes for a very uncomfortable relationship. GF and I have no problem with letting em go whenever the need arises.
I cannot imagine trying to keep my bodily functions "private" from my boyfriend of seven years. We're human, we live together, and I never want to feel like I'm just a visitor in my own house where I have to find a different room to fart. We've peed in front of each other since the first month we started dating. We share with each other if one of us has had a particularly satisfying poop (don't judge, I know some of you do too!) He's massaged my perineum when I was pregnant for chrissakes. I don't see it as a hindrance to romance or intimacy, I see it as a being 100 percent yourself with the one you love, warts, farts, and all.
**Of course, these boundaries are so personal and I understand some people have different comfort levels of being open with their partners, so, meh...whatever works for you.
We have done just about anything and everything in front of each other and I am totally fine with it. He is the only person on the planet that I feel like I am with... myself! So we must be weirdos because we are TOTALLY natural around each other. It's not a boys college dorm room or anything but seriously, who the heck cares about a fart every now and then!? And using the bathroom in front of each other... ummm big deal! lol If you're having sex with someone, swapping all kinds of grossness, then I think you can handle a fart! lol
Both of us can pee in front of the other.
For the other, sorry, strict privacy needed. (Man! I even have trouble *talking* about it. I blame my mother who talked about it WAY TOO MUCH.)
Farting is okay. But if farting in bed, it must be away from the other occupant.
Those are the rules in our marriage.
Hell yes! I once tried to keep it in and then fainted from the pain (seriously). I apparently then let out a huge toot when I hit the floor. That was much more embarrassing then just letting it out in the first place. What is funny is that this mortifies my husband. He finally, after 8 years together, "passed gas" in front of us a few weeks ago. My son and I gave him a standing ovation.
My husband grew up in a family of 4 boys. Farting in front of each other is no big deal, and yes Dutch ovens are funny......that said, it did take awhile, but 19 years of marriage, 2 babies etc and there is not a lot we don't share that way. Occasionally we ask for privacy while on the toilet, but its more about being able to concentrate than about being embarassed. I grew up ignoring farts as just another bodily function. I didn't even know they were funny until the "man with 3 little brothers" pointed it out and laughed uproariously when someone tooted and I ignored it.
Each to his own.
Yes, we toot and pee in front of each other. I can't imagine having to go to the cellar to toot. I don't deliberately lift a bum cheek to make the presence of my fart known but I do indeed toot in front of my husband.
It's good to know we're not the only ones living in a house filled with barking spiders!
Jon farted in front of me during the first 15 minutes our our first date, and I looked at him and he looked at me and we were all SOUL MATES!
Of course! Imagine holding all those in???
Actually, we've been together for over 8 years, but we've always been comfortable around each other. I've even sat with him in the bathroom to keep him company while he's taking a poo...We were just so engrossed in conversation that I only realized that he was pooing when the smell hit and I left. lol
Yep, we share EVERYTHING. He'll even stand in the doorway and talk to me whilst i'm peeing if we were having a good long chat about something. Don't let bodily functions disrupt your activities!
nothing is sacred between hubby and I, although I will kick him out if I am working on a #2, just so I can focus.
i feel bad that I am passing on fart humor to my 3 1/2 year old...well, not really "bad", but is it ok that I love having him break into hysterics when I make his elmo puppet toot? maybe I need some nanny 911 to help me draw some lines.
Honestly I'm surprised at how many of you DON'T do it...clearly we have no boundaries in this area. My DH likes to play it up and be all like woman should not fart in front of their husbands-it's not lady like!
Of course my response is-there is no way I'm going to suffer alone.
I personally like to punctuate comments with a fart, whenever possible.
Farts are funny. We critique and laugh at each other's.
Three years into my marriage and I still have yet to (consciously) fart in front of him. He claims I do it in my sleep, but he has no proof. He's trying to get me to fart in front of him...by showing me how comfortable he is farting in front of me (to which I respond with a quick spritz of the Fabreeze in the direction of his ass). Don't pee in front of him either. he peed in front of me once...in the shower (because we have this ongoing thing about how peeing in the shower is gross). yeah. He's a keeper.
damn! i did not expect this many nay's. i have been with my boyfriend for seven months and we do everything in front of each other. i change my tampon in front of him, we fart, pick noses...everything. and i never look at this and think, god, how did we come to this? i just play the cinderella song in my head, "so this is love" and think, i am home.
No boundaries here - we've been married for 5 years, together for 6 and it's a very relaxed environment. If my gas is particularly foul, I'll give fair warning or try to take it elsewhere.
So to answer your question, yes....all of the above. We also pee in front of one another, but usually try to have poops in private. Some things remain sacred.
You know what's funny though, there have been guys that I would NEVER toot around and I think it was a trust factor, sort of how I knew they weren't the one b/c I couldn't let myself be THAT comfortable in their presence.
So, apparently, my family was way too comfortable with each other because that transcended into my adulthood.
I am going to skip all the other and just say that I have farted ON my boyfriend before and after reading all of you girls, I am apparently the grossest girlfriend in the world. Ha!
After dating for two months, my now hubby & I were hanging out and I had to fart SO BAD. I kept holding it in and it was so painful. I got frustrated and blurted out, "why don't you ever fart in front of me?"
He looked at me, said nothing and let a ripper go. Immediately after that I let mine go. It was like we'd rehearsed.
We've been in love ever since.
Because I knew my husband for several years before we even started dating, and we met whilst working together for a now-defunct airline where the breakroom area was more like a locker room, I was privy to more farts and other bodily functions than any girl should ever be subjected to ever in her life. Farts, burps, etc...they don't bother me.
Also, I have no shame.
i've been with my husband a total of 15 years..in all that time one accidental toot, followed by crying hysterics. the accident occured when i was in a car accident and pinched a nerve in my neck, and he had to help in the shower, and it slipped.
also, he is not allowed to enter a bathroom in which i have pooped in until i say it's okay.
he farts all the time..well not lately, as he's afraid i'm going to divorce him. but not b/c he farts.
Seriously? Why be embarrassed. Everyone does it. My now husband mused before we moved in together how long it would take before we would go to the bathroom with the door open. It took about a day. Though when we were first living together, he would giggle like mad if he farted in bed.
We do it all in front of each other. When we first started dating I tried to be more private, but he coaxed me out of it...
I do have one story though...I was 11 weeks pregnant with our first child and he was driving me home from work and farted the mother of all farts. It was winter and he refused to roll the windows down, and it smelled soo bad he had to pull over so I could lean out of the car and puke. I threw up again as soon as we got home. It stunk so bad that when he got into the car the next morning it still reeked.
We laugh about it now.
Loving it!
So, my husband gets all ticked off at me, 'cuz he claims my farts smell "sweet"! (Why it makes him mad, I dunno...I think he's just jealous, or something!)
I think it just make him love me more...when I fart "cute, sweet" farts...now the under the cover ones (is that called a "Dutch Oven"?), 'them ain't so sweet, my dear'!!
My boyfriend was born with only four senses- he can't smell. Anything. This is one of my favorite things about him, so for the first year of our relationship as long as they were silent I was golden. Four years later, however I couldn't care less. Modesty isn't as much of a big deal after a while!
Umm, I don't even fart in front of my longtime girlfriends. The one time I accidentally did I was MORTIFIED and ran and hid. It's one of the few things that embarrasses me. I'll burp with the wild abandon of a five year old, though.
We don't "fart" in front of each other...we "sparkle"! But when it comes down to it...it's all the same. I have four kids and three of them are boys. Not to mention I'm married to a marine...need I say more?
the only thing I'm embarrassed about in front of the huz is how much I looove cabanos. mmm mmm.
Oh, all the time. We both do. We also have fun rating one another's burps. Wow, that sounds like we have a really low threshold for fun, doesn't it?
I wouldn't do it in front of anyone else, but if my fiance and I can't fart in front of each other, what ELSE might we feel like we have to hide?
Ha. This is so silly.
Of course we fart in front of each other. I can't imagine not being able to. Isn't this like the true test of compatability?
He seems to have WAY more gas than I do. The worst is "morning thunder" before he's even fully awake. Yikes.
I say you people who can't do it in front of your significant other need to start a revolution! Sound the trumpets!
Hey now... I love a good ol' stinking WOMP as much as the next gal, but you lot that are duvet wafters, that's just bad form! Heh heh heh.
There's nothing my husband and I don't do in front of each other. This heroic man shaved my bikini line for me when I was 8 months pregnant because I wanted to go swimming and couldn't... bend that way. He even...
(new line required for this as it is so monumental)
..."dealt with" something that happened to someone, involving some kind of something while I was trying really hard to push our first born baby out.
Poo, puke, sweat, snot, amniotic fluid; you name it, the poor bugger's dealt with it.
I couldn't imagine it any other way.
I wonder if someone can be considered your significant other, truly your significant other, if you don't fart "in front" of them.
And you all do, you just do it in your sleep!
Yes I broke the seal on that early in dating when I was peeing in front of him and accidentally farted. But our vow is never ever #2 in each other's presence. We've had only one bathroom for 6 yrs and even then have yet to break that.
I know plenty of couples that do that too though.
I burp incessantly (when I'm hungry, when I'm full, after I've drunken anything), he farts frequently, it all works itself out. We do try to warn each other, if time/company allows.
Once my husband watched me give birth to our daughter, nothing was off limits anymore! I think all decency went out the window!