My husband rolled his eyes.
“Oh, come on! Don’t be such a buzzkill! Can’t you let people have fun?”
Then, he told everyone that his wife couldn’t take a joke!
“You’re embarrassing me.”
People looked uncomfortable, but nobody spoke up.
I fought back tears.
I’d spent weeks planning that dinner, and my husband had turned my biggest insecurity into entertainment.
I finished the evening smiling because I didn’t want to make things worse.
But I barely spoke during the drive home.
I fought back tears.
***
“Are you still upset?” Tyler asked while driving.
“You embarrassed me.”
“It was a joke!”
“It wasn’t funny.”
“People laughed.”
“Because they were uncomfortable!”
He sighed.
“It wasn’t funny.”
“Emily, you’ve changed. You used to laugh at everything.”
I looked at him.
“Maybe you used to be funnier.”
He frowned.
“See? That’s exactly what I’m talking about.”
“Emily, you’ve changed.”
***
At home, Tyler went straight to bed without apologizing.