# Burping and Farting in front of your Man. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 15, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392 "2013-02-15T15:07:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pooty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Pooty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pooty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/1 "2013-02-15T15:07:25Z")
I have been friends with my husband since grade school all the way through high school. I graduated in 1998 and he graduated in 1999. We both went off to college and stayed friends and later we realized our friendship was more than that and we started dating in 2007 and just got married January 18, 2013. Not one time have I ever burped or farted in front of him. I won’t even use the bathroom in front of him. He doesn’t do any of those things in front of me. I didn’t say he couldn’t, but I’m sure he doesn’t feel like he should since I am weird about it. Some of my friends and my sister in law are totally opposite, they burp and fart really loud. they use the bathroom in front of them and even do it around my parents and family. Like its funny. I just think its so disgusting. I want to know what you guys think about their ladies doing it? ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/2 "2013-02-15T15:18:22Z")
she belches like a high school boy, farts like a cow and swears like a sailor. i overlook these things because she must have some redeeming qualities somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![colander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e8c25b/32.png) [@colander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colander)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/3 "2013-02-15T15:20:46Z")
You’re pretty uptight. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/4 "2013-02-15T15:24:36Z")
> [@Pooty](#): > > I have been friends with my husband since grade school all the way through high school. I graduated in 1998 and he graduated in 1999. We both went off to college and stayed friends and later we realized our friendship was more than that and we started dating in 2007 and just got married January 18, 2013. Not one time have I ever burped or farted in front of him. I won’t even use the bathroom in front of him. He doesn’t do any of those things in front of me. I didn’t say he couldn’t, but I’m sure he doesn’t feel like he should since I am weird about it. > > Some of my friends and my sister in law are totally opposite, they burp and fart really loud. they use the bathroom in front of them and even do it around my parents and family. Like its funny. I just think its so disgusting. > > I want to know what you guys think about their ladies doing it? First: Interesting Thread Title/Board Name combination Second: Pepper Mill will burp in front of me, but she’ll retreat for anything else, and always has. I’ve heard of couples who will use the toilet while their SO is in the bathroom doing something else, but we’ve never done it, and find it kinda gross. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/5 "2013-02-15T15:24:40Z")
He wants you to look good for his gigs but not fart? Sometimes those goals are in direct conflict with each other. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/6 "2013-02-15T15:25:08Z")
Get a dog. Ours farts and it will clear the room out. After that, anything we do around each other pales in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Gary\_T](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_T)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/7 "2013-02-15T15:28:14Z")
> [@Pooty](#): > > I want to know what you guys think about their ladies doing it? I grew up in a family where farting at the dinner table was an art form. Doesn’t bother me. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/8 "2013-02-15T15:31:01Z")
The infamous performer Le Petomane did a series of fart impressions as part of his act. The fart of the bride on her wedding night: inaudible. A week later: two yards of canvas. Says it all, really. ---
**Author:** ![Mrs.Cake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/2acd7d/32.png) [@Mrs.Cake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mrs.Cake)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/9 "2013-02-15T15:36:28Z")
After this many years together we have seen (and smelled) each other at our worst, whether it is one nursing the other through food poisoning, the flu, post-surgical recovery, or just the aftermath of a a big mid-winter chili dinner. The odd fart or belch has to be something spectacular to make it to the marital radar, and then is more likely to be the source of amusement than disgust. Helps if you keep your inner 10-year-old alive. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/10 "2013-02-15T15:37:05Z")
I am pretty grossed out by burping and farting even when I’m by myself. It’s not that I don’t do it around my husband, I just try to conceal it because I am embarrassed. We pee in front of each other, too, but not poop, because poop is just nasty. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/11 "2013-02-15T15:38:14Z")
When we were dating, my future wife claimed she could do the ABCs in a single belch. She ripped a good long one to demonstrate. We’ve been married a long time now and she has never come through on her claim. Is that grounds for divorce? As far as I know she has never farted in her life and may not even have a digestive system as we know it but her feet could knock a bird out of a tree at 100 feet. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/12 "2013-02-15T15:40:29Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Second: Pepper Mill will burp in front of me, but she’ll retreat for anything else, and always has. I’ve heard of couples who will use the toilet while their SO is in the bathroom doing something else, but we’ve never done it, and find it kinda gross. A poem I read once: You know the honeymoon’s over And romance a dying flower When she comes in and take a shit While you’re in the shower ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/13 "2013-02-15T15:54:27Z")
Love me, love my gas. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/14 "2013-02-15T15:58:01Z")
My wife doesn’t fart, but for some reason the cat sometimes has violent gas if the two are in the same room together. At least, that’s her explanation. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/15 "2013-02-15T16:01:47Z")
When we first started dating, my husband would leave the room on some pretext if he had to fart. Now it’s “Pull my finger!” We both belch audibly. “Hey! Good one!” Bathroom duty/doody is private though. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/16 "2013-02-15T16:18:17Z")
But…but…how do you have farting/belching contests if you can’t fart and belch in front of each other?!? (Not that I ever fart or belch - my cat has some _serious_ digestive issues, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Girlfriend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.girlfriend/32/193_2.png) [@Dr.Girlfriend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Girlfriend)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/17 "2013-02-15T16:29:29Z")
> [@Gary\_T](#): > > I grew up in a family where farting at the dinner table was an art form. Doesn’t bother me. Change farting to belching and you have my family. Boyfriend’s family too, apparently. We still don’t use the bathroom in front of each other though. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/18 "2013-02-15T16:48:22Z")
Women do not fart, belch or snore; therefore, we must bitch or else we will explode. J/K 😃 I tend to hold back, mostly because I’m not married so I don’t have any sort of level of comfort about that sort of bodily function in front of men. However, I adore farting and in general, think it’s funny – apparently, I have the sense of humor of a 10-year-old boy. I once dated a guy for quite a while (I thought we were at that comfort level), who would act all outraged and disgusted if I let one rip in front of him. He had a Madonna/Whore complex going so I think it disturbed his image of me as some sort of pristine pure angel of light and goodness. Which encouraged me to do keep doing it. ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/19 "2013-02-15T17:24:23Z")
Back when I first began dating my wife I brought her home to my house and said, “Make yourself at home. Feel free to fart.” Of all the things I said when we first started out, she still remembers that. She shared this inspirational relationship video with me a few months ago. Here is “ **Breaking the Barrier**.” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/-xFaJUZRkQM/maxresdefault.jpg "Breaking the Barrier") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xFaJUZRkQM) ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2013, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392/20 "2013-02-15T17:30:05Z")
I’ve mentioned this on the board before but back when my wife and I were merely dating we woke up one morning after drinking heavily and I stunk up the room with a dangerously awful bit of flatulence. In retaliation, she sat on my head and farted. That’s when I realized that I loved her. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burping-and-farting-in-front-of-your-man/650392.md?page=2)