Regarding wive and girlfriends "Silence of the lambs".
Poor little things get slaughtered as we hold them under the covers and unleash our frightening male digestive systems on them.
They have neither the body weight or dietary habits to match us. Besides nature designed men to smell our own. What woman could be worse? Except maybe in South Dakota.
So all they can do is hold their breath, "thus the "Silence", and hope they can outlast the worst of it.