Whenever I see videos of people farting right next to their SO, many people praise it and seem to think that this makes the relationship “solid”, that it is desirable, and call it “relationship goals”.
While being able to be yourself in front of your SO, and not be ashamed of acting naturally, is indeed desirable, farting next to them isn’t.
I know farting is a natural process, that everyone does it, and I wouldn’t shame someone for it, or wouldn’t really care if they did it, but if we’re sitting in a room togheter, watching TV or playing boardgames or whatever, if you fart there, you’re making us both have to sit in your sticky fart smells for who knows how long. The smell of your own farts might not bother your so much or be bearable to you, but it often smells like shit to anyone else, sometimes even more vile than shit. Some farts also linger for hours after you do them.
So I personally think that the right and respectful thing to do is to go in another room, maybe even the bathroom, and fart there, then come back. That way the other people in the room don’t have to sit in your fart smell.
Like I said, it’s not about not being embaressed in front of your SO, or a sign that you’re so close now that you don’t care about farts, it’s about not having to sit in a smelly room for minutes, even hours.
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So… your ex had bad farts huh
I agree. But it’s not just about farting, it’s about any one thing where someone acts like it’s the only key to a successful relationship. Life isn’t that simple. People are, but not life, and that’s probably why so many people fail with relationships.
I don’t think anyone (except people with weird kinks) thinks that farting next to their SO is a goal. The goal is just to be so comfortable with your SO that if it happens inadvertently you don’t feel absolutely mortified.
Edit: what fart lingers for hours?? Might need to see a doctor if that happens.
No grown adult thinks this is relationship goals. After being together if you let one rip, so what?? As long as no one is eating or it’s not repeatedly done then what’s the big deal? I think this is the sub you want to post this in r/middleschoolersofreddit
I know some people who think that you’re not in a serious relationship if you don’t poop with the door open, my husband and I have been together for 8 years and have children together and have never pooped in front of each other. Maintaining a little bit of a sense of mystery is a good thing imo.
Hours? If your farts smell for hours, see a doctor ASAP.
Hours is insaaaane
Yeah, it’s natural and a lot of the time it can’t be helped. But people should try to head to the bathroom.
Yes, it is.
Rip
farts you can smell for hours sounds like a mental health condition
My partner and I have been together 4 years and lived together for the majority of our relationship. We’ve only farted in front of one another a handful of times, normally by accident. It’s not because we’re scared to, just because it’s more polite to do it in private. I do agree with your opinion, I think it’s kinda gross to force them out or be uncontrollably tooting while you’re hanging out. The goal is to be comfortable around one another, not to stink out the room lol
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This is unpopular?
lol you couldn’t water board me for long enough to get me to stand up, leave the room, and seclude myself, just to let one rip in my own house. This is the sort of opinion that makes me wonder what sort of traumatic events must have occurred in your life that you would handle farting this way.
Its more symbolic than literal lol. Its about having a level of comfort with your partner which passing wind and burping are seen as vulgar and to sometime embarrassing so to have that level of comfort to not be is what it means.
Also, the person you’re with and you’re serious about them will see you at your worst moments, you throwing up, some women shit themselves while giving birth. If you’re worried about a fart, then that’s not really a realistic relationship is it? Obviously no one’s gonna go on a fart spread and shit their pants next to you to prove you’re relationship goals
Hours? Good lord. If it lingers for hours that person needs to go to a physician, not a bathroom.
When you are driving and hit the window locks right before you let out a SBD. Those can linger a while
I do it to make my significant other laugh. I can pretty much do it one queue. Suspenseful quiet part in a movie? Let ‘err rriiipp!
But my farts don’t linger four hourrss, or really smell…. I don’t know what your friends are eating.
I honestly love that we CAN fart in front of eachother cause I don’t fart in front of anyone else except my family, in most settings I hold it in or go somewhere else, but with him I can fully relax, maybe it’s not the answer you we’re looking for, but I guess it just makes you feel you can be who you are by yourself with that person too, a relationship where I constantly had to hold my farts would suck to me TBH I do have a friend that has never farted in front of a partner and she has lived with some of them, which is wild to me lol lol
The second yur girl walks in
My ex-wife sent herself to the doctor because she was so self-conscious about passing gas around me. There’s a distinction between being comfortable enough to let it go and intentionally putting your spouse in a Dutch Oven.
It’s more about comfortably than the actual fart….
I just do it because I think it’s funny. I understand that other people don’t dig it, but I think farts are the purest form of juvenile humor and I wouldn’t be with someone that got genuinely upset about it.
just a personal preference.
I met this super cute guy on Grindr. I went to his house and picked him up. We went and had pho, shopped for shoes, and he cut my hair at his salon. It was a perfect first date. We went back to his house to watch a movie, and I started feeling the urge to shit.
Like now.
I excused myself, telling the truth about needing to shit.
This was a 600 square foot house with a central bathroom on the main floor. Built in 1940 and mostly original. No fan. It had a small window. I unleashed the wrath.
I exited the bathroom and we both laughed about it, watched the movie, and ended up doing some Netflix and chill activity.
Hottest dude I’d ever met, seriously.
We’ve been together 16 years and married 5 now and couldn’t be happier. We also shit ourselves in front of one another and laugh about it.
Getting up to fart in another room is CRAZY