So me and my husband have been married for five years. We are currently f24 and m33. Way before we met, when I was 16, my mom’s house had a house fire that burnt literally everything down and sadly my childhood cat was also killed in it.

I remember my mom and brother waking me up screaming “fire, fire, get up, get up!” We crawled out under the smoke and luckily my neighbors had already called the fire department and they pulled us out. We lost literally everything. We were devastated.

So that was a while ago but it still really scares me, and I check outlets and our stove and candles and everything all the time. My husband knows this about me.

So two nights ago I went to bed early because I am currently 34 weeks pregnant, literally about to pop. I was sleeping for a while before for some reason, my husband decided to wake me up by yelling “baby! There’s a fire! Fire, fire, fire! Get up!”

As quick as I could get up at 34 weeks, I did, and grabbed my purse. I was just in automatic shock and just autopilot and knew I needed what to grab. I made it all the way down the stairs, yelling for my husband to follow me, before he started laughing and telling me it was a joke.

It took a minute for that to process. I stood there with an open mouth while he laughed and ushered me down the rest of the stairs. I sat down on the couch and just started sobbing. It was genuinely the hardest I’ve ever sobbed, it’s like I couldn’t get myself to stop and my whole body was shaking. My heart was racing and I couldn’t breathe. I have never had this experience before, I was genuinely so panicked.

I was so fucking upset. My husband apologized and was like “oh my god, I’m sorry, it was just a joke”. I just cried until he eventually was like “what the fuck it was just a prank, this is really dramatic.”

After a few hours, I had calmed myself down and went to apologize to him. He wouldn’t take it. He said I was being over dramatic and made him feel like shit for a harmless prank. So I guess AITAH? I’ve never been good at taking jokes, I’ve been trying to be less sensitive but idk.