It’s nice to finally find someone you can settle down with. Someone who makes you feel safe and loved, someone who truly stands as your best friend and number one supporter. But like everything else, storms are sometimes necessary.

See, marriage isn’t always rainbows and butterflies.

Sometimes, it’s blood and roses. Or paranoia mixed with sports equipment that can double as a self-defense weapon. Confused, yet? There’s a joke about a married couple that’s pretty hilarious when you first hear it. It involves an out-of-town trip, suspicion (and trust issues!), and a major “oh no” moment that can’t ever be reversed.

Before we get ahead of ourselves, let’s look at the typical realities married couples face. Apart from discovering just how amazing or annoying your spouse can be when it comes to housework, finances, parenthood, and everything else, there’s also the issue of fidelity.

We live in fast-paced times with technological advancements popping up left and right. This can sometimes spell trouble for relationships.

Social media and dating apps can make it so easy to sneak around and get involved with other people, even married ones!

That said, a husband or wife may sometimes be given reasons to be paranoid about faithfulness. And with that doubt comes impulsiveness. Oh, if only it were easy to communicate first before jumping to conclusions and being careless!

Whatever your relationship is like now, just remember: don’t do what the wife in this joke did. Check this out.

A wife comes home late one night.

She quietly opens the door to her bedroom.

From under the blanket, she sees four legs instead of just her husband’s two.

She reaches for a baseball bat and starts hitting the blanket as hard as she can.

Once she’s done, she goes to the kitchen to have a drink. As she enters, she sees her husband there, reading a magazine.

He says, “Hi darling, your parents have come to visit us, so I let them stay in our bedroom. Did you say hello?”

Your jaw dropped, didn’t it? Funny as this joke is, there’s definitely a few lessons there. Number one, if you’re struggling with trust issues in a relationship, choose to communicate first. Consider therapy, even. And number two, don’t act on impulse. Overthinking often triggers fears that convince us that what we’re picturing in our heads is reality.

Always remind yourself, “I could be wrong.”

Good thing this is just a joke that went viral!

Imagine how horrifying it would be if this was actually inspired by true events. All the blood must have drained from that wife’s face upon hearing that it was her folks sleeping soundly in their bedroom!

You’ve really got to hand it to the one who came up with this joke. Bottom line: if you know your partner tends to always suspect you of infidelity or if this joke just got to you, then best hide your baseball bat, frying pans (don’t laugh, Tom & Jerry made this look painful) and other self-defense weapons you may have lying around!

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Source: Reddit – ThatCalisthenicsDude, The Dad