Sharing a bathroom with SO

Poo pourri works great. Shake it, spray about 3x in the bowl, poop, flush. Won't smell a thing.

Lmao Aurora you hold your farts in public? Can't fucking relate.

I'm dramatic????? Girl, please. At least I'm not being unfeminine by being dramatic then, according to your INSANE standards.

Lol when you have been together for 5.5 years and living together most of that time there's no hiding it. We don't care anymore haha we pick on each other jokingly when the bathroom smells but we really are over it at this point

I mean, I get not wanting to let loose a loud smelly fart in public or right next to somebody as common courtesy, and it could make cuddling a little less romantic (lol) but how do you never fart around your partner at all???

We live together and spend a lot of time together, it happens.

It would be so awkward and uncomfortable to run to the bathroom and spray air freshener every time one of us had to fart at all.

@lilly i respect your opinion. I just like to have what I think is good etiquette and try not doing certain things in front of fh. fh does the same for me.

I loosened up as soon as we started dating, maybe even before then (we were friends before)... basically when we started getting intimate. If he wants my body, he gets ALLLLLLL of it, stink and all. TMI? IDC.

It's not the "good etiquette" part that is messed up, it's tying it to gender stereotypes. Is it "good etiquette" for men to fart but not for women? How and why?

@stpaulgal I'm not saying men should have a different standard. My fh and I have a mutual respect for not doing that in front of each other, it's just something we agree on. He's a gentleman and doesn't think it's very "kind" to do in front of me LOL. Other couples don't care, and I think that's great! I'm not here to put couples s down that think differently than I. Just simply saying what my fh and I do.

Bathroom habits are private, door closed. Some things need to be sacred even for married couples. My toothbrush is my own also, even in a dire emergency. We both agreed on this. Case closed.

@MelissaHH, probably crying, if we're going by gender stereotypes

After my FH cuts one, I always get an "I love you honey" & he is smiling ear to ear lol

I was like that when we started dating... not anymore. Gotta take care of business lol

@melissahh agreed that it is regardless of gender, I don't dispute that. I just don't view wanting to be lady like as crossing a line. To each their own opinion.

No he's just being polite. I think you're taking my wording wrong, because I fully agree with you. Perhaps I should have used a different word to describe how it makes me feel, i.e. Gross or rude. Because I definitely don't think their should be different standards! I never really thought of calling it anything different. But I see what you're saying. Thanks for pointing that out! ( I wish they had emojis on this site!)

IDGAF anymore. I used to worry about this but then would literally get sick. All bets are off now!

Yeah, that is totally fine. Not wanting to be rude is great! What is not great is ascribing weird gender stuff to it. Farting in public is rude behavior regardless of your gender identity.

@melissahh Yes! When people do it on purpose to annoy others that's when it's rude. It happens sometimes and that is exactly what should be said when it does. Totally not against natural tendencies in the human body. I just try to be polite, even around the person I love most, and he tries too, so it makes it fair! Lol

I used to be just like this . Now we both poop with the door open . Idc everyone does it. No shame in my game.

Oh if only you understood my relationship. My FH is the most disgusting human being. I would tell you what he does but it is super TMI. We've been together 7 years next Sunday AND I think the pooping privacy went out the window around year 2.

ETA: poo pourri is my best friend. I carry one with me everywhere I go because I am SUPER bathroom shy.