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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/HopHop76 on 2026-02-27 23:43:39+00:00.
This is so stupid but it was actually really messed up for a couple of hours. We're laughing about it now though.
When my girlfriend woke me up this morning, I sat up in bed to rub my eyes, fix my hair, and stretch. You know how sometimes when you have a really good stretch, your whole body locks up and quivers for a second and you kinda grunt or make a little seething noise through gritted teeth?
Well, I had one of those awesome stretches when I sat up, and when the tension released I thought it would be funny to let it kind of just... explode out of me freely to be silly and overdramatic. So, when the shiver released I threw my arms up and let out this super loud, shrill banshee scream (The "joke" I was going for in a split second being a sort of exorcism sort of vibe). I'm normally very quiet and soft spoken so I wouldn't be surprised if this was the loudest noise that I've made in at least the least 5 years.
So uh... turns out you should probably consider whether your SO has trauma around loud screams before you scream at a million decibels two feet away from her ear all willy-nilly like that. It triggered her hard and she shut down and started sob crying, and I immediately felt awful and started trying to comfort her and apologize when I realized what was so wrong.
It took her over an hour to fully calm down with me holding her, but eventually she could laugh it off. When we stopped cuddling and I sat back up, I stretched again and this time I looked at her and let out the tiniest, quietest little scream I could manage just to bookend the whole thing on a lighthearted note. She smacked me and told me to fuck off and then I made her breakfast.
TL;DR – Stretched too hard, jokingly screamed really loud like the sleepiness was being exorcized from my body, accidentally triggered my GF's PTSD around screaming really badly.