Husband blasted over cruel 'prank' he played on his wife - which cost them £8,000 and constantly arguing
A woman has revealed how a very expensive prank her husband played on her has left her wondering whether she can ever forgive him.
The 29-year-old, believed to be from the US, took to Reddit to explain the conundrum after her husband's cruel trick left the couple £8,000 poorer.
Writing on the Am I The A****** (AITAH) forum, the anonymous poster branded the expensive joke the 'dumbest thing that's ever happened to me in my entire life.'
She explained that she and her husband had been taking a romantic boat ride together, when all of a sudden, he issued a startling confession.
'This past Sunday, my husband and I were on our boat together. We were just relaxing and talking and having a good morning,' she wrote.
'All of a sudden, my husband gets really serious and tells me 'baby, I'm so sorry but I have to tell you something. I'm so sorry, please forgive me, I had an affair".'
Gobsmacked by the revelation, the woman couldn't help herself in reacting with 'blind rage'.
In the heat of the moment, she ripped both of her wedding rings off and furiously tossed them into the ocean.
'I was blinded by rage and hurt and I'm not a confrontational person at all so all I did was stand up, take my rings off, and throw them into the ocean,' she confessed.
In retrospect, she admitted she wasn't even sure why she had reacted in such a way - but that it had been the 'first thing I thought of doing'.
She noted that although her husband likes to think of himself as 'a comedian', he had never made jokes about their relationship.
'He says dumb s*** all the time but he's never joked about our marriage or relationship or cheating, ever.
'The way he said it, I fully believed him,' she fumed.
Her husband couldn't believe what she had done and immediately began screaming that the admission of adultery wasn't true.
'He immediately started to yell at me that it was a joke, a prank, he wasn't serious and I was an idiot.'
Realising what she had done, the woman began to cry, devastated to discover she had thrown her 'sentimental' rings into the sea for no reason.
'My jaw dropped then too. I yelled at him too and called him the same. I cried too, realising I just threw my lovely and sentimental rings into the ocean,' she explained.
She said the two had been left 'arguing for days' after the incident, with each believing the other to be at fault.
The Reddit user said she had 'no idea who's right' and begged Reddit users to share their thoughts on the situation.
'He says I'm the a******, I say he's the a******,' she wrote.
'Yes admittedly I threw about £10,000 worth of rings into the ocean and we will never find them again - but he looked me in my eyes and told me he had an affair. I am upset about my rings.'
Although she had apologised for the outburst and for throwing the rings in the sea, she insisted she didn't 'feel like the a******'.
Offering their thoughts on the situation, several took to the comments to defend the woman's actions, with one calling the situation 'traumatic'.
One wrote: 'If someone lies to you about your child being killed in a car accident, then tells you later that it's just a joke, that doesn't change the traumatic experience you just had of believing your child is dead. Making someone experience trauma isn't a prank, it's engaging in cruelty for your own amusement.'
Another even suggested she divorce her husband for the cruelty. 'Someone who breaks your heart as a "prank" isn't someone I'd wanna be married to if I were you. You're so young don't be stuck with this jerk for the next 50 years,' they wrote.
A third added: 'There are a hell of a lot of people whose ego won't allow them to admit being wrong. These people are incapable of apologising, it's a hit to their pride,' adding that they were 'concerned' for the long term wellbeing of the poster.
Others even went as far as to call the behaviour 'abuse' and told her to be wary of staying married to her husband.
However, one viewer suggested the affair may have been real. 'Maybe he actually had an affair and just backpedaled when he saw how mad she got,' they said.
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