Working from home should be peaceful, but one wife keeps getting jump-scared by her husband every time he walks into the room.

Her reactions are extreme—full-on screams, jumps, and shakes that last for hours.

She’s tried explaining that it’s an involuntary response, but he still takes it personally.

Check out the details below.

WIBTA if I bought a motion activated door chime for my office because my partner keeps scaring me?

Me and my partner both work from home.

During the day I work out of a spare room and he works out of the living room, so during work hours these two spaces essentially work as two offices.

I will refer to the room I work in as my office for simplicity sakes but it is not the exclusive use of that room and there is a second bathroom that can only be accessed through the spare room.

I scare extremely easily.

I usually keep the door open unless one of us is on a call, but very frequently my husband will walk into the room and scare me really badly.

Like I’ll *scream* and jump and for a few seconds I genuinely cannot control my reaction, like I feel like I almost white out for a second sometime it scares me so bad.

Does he think he’s living in a horror movie instead of a home office?

I don’t handle it very well, a good scare will leave me shaking for hours after.

I know I’m very weak to being scared and that its an unreasonable reaction but I genuinely cannot control it.

I have some trauma in my past that contributes, but I am working with a therapist.

My partner takes a great deal of offense to my reactions, even though I try to explain I cant control them.

Sometimes when he startles me like that I’ll say something like “Why did you do that?” or “why do you keep doing that?” as a reaction and that hurts his feelings.

I always apologize and try to assure him its not personal, its just what comes out of my mouth when I’m scared but I can tell it really bothers him.

Nothing like getting scared half to death and then having to comfort the person who did the scaring.

I’ve asked him to just pause and knock before he comes in but thats not really fair to make him stop and knock in his own house to enter a room that isn’t exclusively for my use.

The scares are bad enough that they can greatly impact my work day.

I know this seems extreme, but a good scare makes me feel like my brain turns off for a while after until I get ahold of myself again.

I suggested this morning, after a good scare, that maybe I should get a motion sensor door chime like they have at shops!

I could install it in the hall just before my door and put the noise maker on my desk so that I’ll hear the noise and know he’s coming.

Nothing like turning your home office into a 7-Eleven for some peace of mind.

My partner thinks that thats over the top but I want to find a solution that will work.

Would I be the a****** if I just bought a chime and set it up?

He thinks it’s excessive, but she just wants to get through her workday without feeling like she’s in a horror movie.

What’s Reddit think?

This person says the. partner is the AH.

This person goes on to say he could actually be doing it on purpose, which is wild.

This person has some suggestions.

Nothing says “working from home” like turning your office into a haunted house.

This guy sounds like a jerk.

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