AIBU?

[saladf1ngers]

I was looking at the moon tonight with my husband, and I said "as a child, I used to think the moon was lit up like a star is"
And he said "what do you mean"
Do I replied "you know, like a light, i used to think it actually glowed"
And he looked at me, genuinely perplexed and said "is it not?"
So I laughed thinking he was being silly - but it transpires he didn't understand that the sun lights the moon :(
He stormed off saying I was mocking him.. I really wasn't, I wouldn't have laughed if I'd realised - but now I can't apologise without making him feel more silly.

He's genuinely mad at me.
AIBU to have laughed?

If he looked genuinely perplexed why did you laugh at him?

It would have been a pretty stupid thing to joke about, wouldn’t it? 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hard to tell if he’s being over sensitive or not. None of us can know how you laughed.

It’s not a big deal on the face of it.

I suppose it is common knowledge but you only know that because someone told you.

I thought he was tricking me at first (he loves pranks) and wasn't till after that I thought "oh.. he did look perplexed.." but the horse had bolted by that point :(

It wasn't a full on belly laugh...
that would have been very over dramatic

This is probably the kind of thing that I wouldn’t know.... but then my intelligent DH would - but wouldn’t make me feel bad about - but that’s one of the reasons I love him.

I don’t like people who laugh at others not knowing something.

I did similar with my DH, discussing something I thought everyone knew. I suppressed the laugh of surprise, I mean, no need to make him feel stupid.

You can make him feel better by telling him that a MNer who he (thankfully) doesn’t know only discovered a few years ago that the White cliffs of Dover are not actually painted white.

I didn't laugh because he didn't know (but thanks for labelling me)

I laughed because I thought he was having a joke with me (we have a laugh together a lot!)

My DP laughed too. After he lifted his jaw from the floor.

This is just one of those things.
It's common knowledge so absolutely understandable that you thought he was joking.
And, on the other side, he didn't know, so is bound to be humiliated that you laughed at him.

I feel so shit :(

Don’t waste time beating yourself up over nothing! Say sorry because you hadn’t realised he wasn’t joking, and we all have gaps in our general knowledge (most of us have more gap than knowledge!).

If he continues to punish you after you apologise he’s being a douche.

You can't apologise?

Well perhaps you should at least try?