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<h2>While some families and couples think it&#39;s fun to plan elaborate pranks for each other, pranks are only funny when all parties involved are laughing...</h2><p>Tricking your loved ones or causing them severe anxiety in the name of a &quot;funny joke,&quot; is not a good idea, and it&#39;s important to seriously think through your scheme before you decide to film your wife&#39;s reaction to traumatizing information for TikTok views. Going viral with a &quot;hilarious&quot; joke can be fun if everyone involved is working together for a bit, but fooling someone you love to the point where they&#39;re extremely distressed is immature and disrespectful. If you&#39;re the only one laughing after you pull a prank on someone, that&#39;s not a prank, it&#39;s really just bullying. Some people deeply hate practical jokes and if pranks are an important part of your personality or marriage goals, it&#39;s key to find a partner who shares that passion.</p><p>So, when a frustrated new mom decided to consult Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?&quot; about a wildly irresponsible &quot;prank&quot; her husband pulled on her that she didn&#39;t find funny at all, people were eager to weigh in.</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/l4z33e/aita_for_blowing_up_on_my_husband_over_a_prank/">AITA</a> (Am I the as*hole) for blowing up on my husband over a prank?</h2><blockquote> <p>My F25 husband M27 is into pranks. I know this since we met. He goes too far with his pranks and thinks it&#39;s funny. Some of his family members are like him. They either do it together or against each other. No harm in few laughs but their pranks aren&#39;t funny and tend to be hurtful to be honest.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>My husband went too far with his pranks a few times like when he pretended that he forgot the keys to our house after the wedding. Or when he took me to another restaurant for our engagement party we were supposed to meet the family there but I was surprised no one came. I found out it was a prank the entire family thought it was funny. I didn&#39;t. We just had our first babyboy a month ago. I really thought that my husband finally decided to focus on important things in life and he&#39;s been helping a lot to be honest.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>He goes out to the pharmacy/supermarket. Buys groceries, makes breakfast and takes care of cleaning the bathroom/bedroom. Then he watches our son while I sleep or shower or have friends over. Some of my friends think I&#39;m lucky my husband understands and helps out unlike others. That&#39;s not entirely true.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>Last week. He stopped helping with the baby suddenly and was looking upset and just avoided me for two days. I honestly had no idea what was going on. I tried to talk to him but he refused to say what was wrong until I snapped. He told me his mom said that our baby doesn&#39;t really look like him and suggested that he secretly do a DNA test. I was speechless.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>He said he did it without making me notice and got the results 2 days ago and it turned out our son isn&#39;t his and that he&#39;ll be moving out of the house and will contact an attorney in the morning. I swear I felt a ton of anger and confusion but I stood there speechless. He said he didn&#39;t want to argue nor hear an explanation. I knew something was very off with his reaction because he usually isn&#39;t that calm and would definitely throw a fit in scenarios that are serious.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I called him a liar clearly and demanded to see the test result that he &quot;did behind my back&quot;. He stalled until he suddenly bursted into laughter. I was dumbfounded. He kept saying that I got pranked and kept laughing at the face I made. He then after seeing how pissed I looked started apologizing to me telling me to relax it was a prank. Then he said that his cousin was in on it and was the mastermind of this plan- His cousin is a jerk--he&#39;s 20 and acts like 13. His parents are suffering from his behavior too. I blew up on my husband for what he did and called him a jerk to think pulling a stupid prank like that is funny.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I told him to stop being childish while I&#39;m being exhausted from doing everything alone in those two days. He said my reaction was major and told me to relax. I immediately sent his cousin a very nasty email explaining that I&#39;m struggling with a newborn while he&#39;s trying to be funny and cruel to suggest something like that. My husband said I shouldn&#39;t have lashed out at his cousin and I told him off after he mentioned that I apologize.</p> </blockquote><p> </p><blockquote> <p><strong>To add:</strong> I&#39;m not talking to him at the moment I don&#39;t even answer questions he asks me about chores since he&#39;s now doing the cleaning and cooking I&#39;m handling our son&#39;s care. He complains that I&#39;m overreacting and should just let it go-it&#39;s just a prank but this is what bothers me the most. He did apologize several times, but didn&#39;t like that I lashed out at his cousin.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say:</h2><blockquote> <p>Holy sh*t NTA (Not the As*hole)- I am shaking with anger for you. Your husband was deliberately cruel to you 4 weeks after childbirth. You are still physically healing from a major medical procedure on top of having to deal with all the hormonal changes of giving birth. This is not a prank. This is abuse. Your husband is 27 years old and taking advice from a 20 year old which is in a problem of itself.</p> <p>You have two options: Couples counseling ASAP or divorce. It is ultimatum time. Your husband has repeatedly hurt you on purpose multiple times and thinks it&#39;s funny. Unless you want a child to grow up thinking it&#39;s okay to treat others this way you have to demand change. - Befub14435</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Gee, what a surprise that he also got two days totally off to pull off his &#39;prank&#39;. Tell him he&#39;s on full time baby duty while you get to relax and do nothing for two days. You are still super mentally fragile 4 weeks after childbirth. Hormones everywhere, sleep deprivation, he clearly has no compassion for you. - Music_withrocks_In</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>NTA</p> <p>What&rsquo;s next &ldquo;I just got a call from my doctor, I have cancer and will die soon&rdquo;? That&rsquo;s funny, right? - stitcherfromnevada</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>NTA</p> <p>If a guy put me through two days of the silent treatment and emotional distress for laughs, I&#39;d be rethinking EVERYTHING even without a kid involved.</p> <p>He thinks your distress is funny. He thinks you wondering what&#39;s wrong is a barrel of laughs. This is the definition of as*hole and you wouldn&#39;t be at all wrong to protect yourself and your kid, who will soon be a target (imagine him telling your kid you died because he thinks it&#39;ll be so so funny). - Madelinegumbo</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>NTA. Why don&rsquo;t you &ldquo;prank&rdquo; him and divorce him but for real? What he&rsquo;s doing is emotionally abusive and you should probably start taking steps to protect yourself and your kid. - StarbuckandTex</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>NTA</p> <p>Those aren&#39;t pranks. He isn&#39;t pretending to mistreat you, he&#39;s actually mistreating you. He&#39;s being a total abusive asshole (not to mention neglectful parent) and then just using &#39;its just a joke&#39; to gaslight you for being mad about it. - ImpossibleBop</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>NTA. This isn&rsquo;t a prank. A prank is something both parties think is funny in the end. Some mild annoyance is okay, but never something that could uproot your life so fast like this.</p> <p>Both the cousin and the husband deserved a reality check and a talking to. - ModrnArte</p> </blockquote><h2>So, there you have it!</h2><p>Everyone agreed across the board that this new mom is not at all in the wrong for being upset with her husband and his cousin as this prank caused her severe stress that definitely wasn&#39;t funny. Good luck, everyone!</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

Mom asks if she's wrong to stop talking to husband after he used their baby for a prank.

While some families and couples think it&#39;s fun to plan elaborate pranks for each other, pranks are only funny when all parties involved are laughing...Tricking your loved ones or causing them severe anxiety in the name of a &quot;funny joke,&quot; is not a good idea, and it&#39;s important to seriously think through your scheme before you decide to film your wife&#39;s reaction to traumatizing information for TikTok views. Going viral with a &quot;hilarious&quot; joke can be fun if everyone involved is working together for a bit, but fooling someone you love to the point where they&#39;re extremely distressed is immature and disrespectful. If you&#39;re the only one laughing after you pull a prank on someone, that&#39;s not a prank, it&#39;s really just bullying. Some people deeply hate practical jokes and if pranks are an important part of your personality or marriage goals, it&#39;s key to find a partner who shares that passion.So, when a frustrated new mom decided to consult Reddit&#39;s &quot;Am I the As*hole?&quot; about a wildly irresponsible &quot;prank&quot; her husband pulled on her that she didn&#39;t find funny at all, people were eager to weigh in.AITA (Am I the as*hole) for blowing up on my husband over a prank? My F25 husband M27 is into pranks. I know this since we met. He goes too far with his pranks and thinks it&#39;s funny. Some of his family members are like him. They either do it together or against each other. No harm in few laughs but their pranks aren&#39;t funny and tend to be hurtful to be honest.   My husband went too far with his pranks a few times like when he pretended that he forgot the keys to our house after the wedding. Or when he took me to another restaurant for our engagement party we were supposed to meet the family there but I was surprised no one came. I found out it was a prank the entire family thought it was funny. I didn&#39;t. We just had our first babyboy a month ago. I really thought that my husband finally decided to focus on important things in life and he&#39;s been helping a lot to be honest.   He goes out to the pharmacy/supermarket. Buys groceries, makes breakfast and takes care of cleaning the bathroom/bedroom. Then he watches our son while I sleep or shower or have friends over. Some of my friends think I&#39;m lucky my husband understands and helps out unlike others. That&#39;s not entirely true.   Last week. He stopped helping with the baby suddenly and was looking upset and just avoided me for two days. I honestly had no idea what was going on. I tried to talk to him but he refused to say what was wrong until I snapped. He told me his mom said that our baby doesn&#39;t really look like him and suggested that he secretly do a DNA test. I was speechless.   He said he did it without making me notice and got the results 2 days ago and it turned out our son isn&#39;t his and that he&#39;ll be moving out of the house and will contact an attorney in the morning. I swear I felt a ton of anger and confusion but I stood there speechless. He said he didn&#39;t want to argue nor hear an explanation. I knew something was very off with his reaction because he usually isn&#39;t that calm and would definitely throw a fit in scenarios that are serious.   I called him a liar clearly and demanded to see the test result that he &quot;did behind my back&quot;. He stalled until he suddenly bursted into laughter. I was dumbfounded. He kept saying that I got pranked and kept laughing at the face I made. He then after seeing how pissed I looked started apologizing to me telling me to relax it was a prank. Then he said that his cousin was in on it and was the mastermind of this plan- His cousin is a jerk--he&#39;s 20 and acts like 13. His parents are suffering from his behavior too. I blew up on my husband for what he did and called him a jerk to think pulling a stupid prank like that is funny.   I told him to stop being childish while I&#39;m being exhausted from doing everything alone in those two days. He said my reaction was major and told me to relax. I immediately sent his cousin a very nasty email explaining that I&#39;m struggling with a newborn while he&#39;s trying to be funny and cruel to suggest something like that. My husband said I shouldn&#39;t have lashed out at his cousin and I told him off after he mentioned that I apologize.   To add: I&#39;m not talking to him at the moment I don&#39;t even answer questions he asks me about chores since he&#39;s now doing the cleaning and cooking I&#39;m handling our son&#39;s care. He complains that I&#39;m overreacting and should just let it go-it&#39;s just a prank but this is what bothers me the most. He did apologize several times, but didn&#39;t like that I lashed out at his cousin. Here&#39;s what the jury of internet strangers had to say: Holy sh*t NTA (Not the As*hole)- I am shaking with anger for you. Your husband was deliberately cruel to you 4 weeks after childbirth. You are still physically healing from a major medical procedure on top of having to deal with all the hormonal changes of giving birth. This is not a prank. This is abuse. Your husband is 27 years old and taking advice from a 20 year old which is in a problem of itself. You have two options: Couples counseling ASAP or divorce. It is ultimatum time. Your husband has repeatedly hurt you on purpose multiple times and thinks it&#39;s funny. Unless you want a child to grow up thinking it&#39;s okay to treat others this way you have to demand change. - Befub14435  Gee, what a surprise that he also got two days totally off to pull off his &#39;prank&#39;. Tell him he&#39;s on full time baby duty while you get to relax and do nothing for two days. You are still super mentally fragile 4 weeks after childbirth. Hormones everywhere, sleep deprivation, he clearly has no compassion for you. - Music_withrocks_In  NTA What&rsquo;s next &ldquo;I just got a call from my doctor, I have cancer and will die soon&rdquo;? That&rsquo;s funny, right? - stitcherfromnevada  NTA If a guy put me through two days of the silent treatment and emotional distress for laughs, I&#39;d be rethinking EVERYTHING even without a kid involved. He thinks your distress is funny. He thinks you wondering what&#39;s wrong is a barrel of laughs. This is the definition of as*hole and you wouldn&#39;t be at all wrong to protect yourself and your kid, who will soon be a target (imagine him telling your kid you died because he thinks it&#39;ll be so so funny). - Madelinegumbo  NTA. Why don&rsquo;t you &ldquo;prank&rdquo; him and divorce him but for real? What he&rsquo;s doing is emotionally abusive and you should probably start taking steps to protect yourself and your kid. - StarbuckandTex  NTA Those aren&#39;t pranks. He isn&#39;t pretending to mistreat you, he&#39;s actually mistreating you. He&#39;s being a total abusive asshole (not to mention neglectful parent) and then just using &#39;its just a joke&#39; to gaslight you for being mad about it. - ImpossibleBop  NTA. This isn&rsquo;t a prank. A prank is something both parties think is funny in the end. Some mild annoyance is okay, but never something that could uproot your life so fast like this. Both the cousin and the husband deserved a reality check and a talking to. - ModrnArte So, there you have it!Everyone agreed across the board that this new mom is not at all in the wrong for being upset with her husband and his cousin as this prank caused her severe stress that definitely wasn&#39;t funny. Good luck, everyone!

While some families and couples think it&#39;s fun to plan elaborate pranks for each other, pranks are only funny when all parties involved are laughing...  Tricking your loved ones or causing them severe anxiety in the name of a...