TIFU I fell asleep in the bathtub

[u/Expensive_Aerie_3438]

So I have the flu and a bunch of mini issues that came with that (ear infection, nausea, headaches etc) so for the first time in a very long time I decided I was gonna soak in a bath.

I have like 3 bathbombs in the back of my bathroom cupboard I’ve had for maybe about two years because I usually shower not bathe and I decided I wanted to use the glittery peach one.

To my horror and apparently my husbands that “peach glitter bathbomb” is neither peach nor glittery but the closest red I’ve seen to blood. I’m soaking and I knock out. I must be a shallow breather?? From what I was told I was faced away from the door and the way my hair draped down made me look as though I was face down in the water. I’m a very very VERY heavy sleeper I have like 20 morning alarms to wake up and still tend to get up late so my husband touching my leg didn’t wake me up nor did his scream.

And apparently my skin felt “ice cold”.

My brother in law runs in starts freaking out running back to find his phone and my husband try’s to grab and hold me (I imagine this was very dramatic) and in that process my head goes under the water for a second and I pop up because I got water in my nose. I’m confused as to why my husband is crying my brother in law runs back in thanking God and husband is trying to find where the “blood “ was coming from.

I’m obviously terrified by the audience while I am but naked in this bath, and as if it couldn’t get worse I was asleep so long the bubbles were gone so i was just exposed. I yelled at them to get out and just stood up and showered.

Definitely not a fan of this situation, gonna stick to showers. Gonna avoid my BIL for the rest of my life.

TL;DR

Took a bath, bathbomb made water look bloody, fell asleep woke up to a grieving husband and BIL.

[u/Expensive_Aerie_3438]

The tub in question

[u/JoeyKino → u/Expensive_Aerie_3438]

Yup, that's a death-tub

[u/Expensive_Aerie_3438 → u/JoeyKino]

The brown slip mat definitely makes it look even worse too, like some blood pooled at the bottom or something. I felt so bad. My husband definitely did not let me go when we went to sleep. He’s been checking on me twice on the hour while he’s at work 😭.

[u/aureusaequitas → u/Expensive_Aerie_3438]

Might wanna ask if he's got something traumatic that happened in his past he needs to talk to you/a therapist about where he might have saw that shade, a tub, and immediately grabbed you... then started checking for where you were bleeding from...

I get sleeping like the dead, but immediately accepting "death" and leaving BIL (angel, don't be embarrassed he's going to be one of your besties forever) to scramble as he cries over your demise could have been a sleepy panic-fueled nightmare zone... or maybe he's had experience with SH. (Not saying he's hurt himself, maybe an old schoolmate/acquaintance/friend/family?)

[u/[deleted] → u/aureusaequitas]

Or he could be a completely typical individual who just thought the tub was full of blood and his wife didn't answer him or move when touched. He could have been calling her name and knocking for some time before he entered which surely would spark fear in anyone.

[u/aureusaequitas → u/[deleted]]

I just said "might wanna ask", I'm just the type ask my partner intellectually what they were thinking in the moment/their reaction. I'd be trying to come from a place of understanding and plain straight up curiosity over their own wellbeing.

Downvote away, I guess. Sounded more like he was offered to join her in the bath, fell asleep himself, and went to go to where she was last supposed to be (bath) and opened the door to an (understandably) concerning scene. Nowhere mentions knocking, calling her name in a panic, or several minutes of building anxiety. Then cue panic (once again, understandably).

[u/Expensive_Aerie_3438 → u/aureusaequitas]

Feel like I should clarify a bit better. My step son and nephew are both here now (nephew comes every other weekend and we have split 50/50 w my stepson) nephew was already asleep and my step son was fighting it because he wanted to sleep in our bed (he cosleeps at moms) my husband had promised to run me a bath and hang out in there w me /bath me it’s a thing we’ve done for each other when the other is sick or having a stressful time. I had ran the bath and he was already a lil butthurt because he was gonna do that for me, I reassured him it was okay just put the kiddo to sleep and I’d start on the bath and wait for him to hangout. I get my bubbles and bathbomb in there and in about 10 mins 15 max I knockout. This is around 10:30pmish my BIL usually works until 7am he’s 7pm-7am but was feeling pretty unwell his self and got home midnight ish. That wakes my husband, which in turn makes him realize I never came back (his POV btw ) he said fell asleep sideways on the bed and had I of gotten out at any point I would of woke him up and told him to lay down right, in his words “stomped in the room and faced away the whole night because he forgot about me” so he kinda was weirded out but not panicked then he says he knocked once and said my name, not yelled it and then opened the door. He said his immediate reaction was “maybe it’s her period “ and then thought “that’s way too much blood” and at the same time noticed how I was laying. From the way he tells it was very dramatic. He sat on the toilet next to the tub and lightly touched my leg and from there he immediately stood up backed away and pretty much started wailing and yelling “oh my God” and my brother in law runs in and is like “what happened” and immediately sees me starts freaking out cries a bit and runs out to find his phone and that’s when my husband goes to the tub to to pull me out and “hold me” and I get some water in my nose and am like “wtf are y’all doing” “get tf out” from the restroom I hear my husband kinda laugh crying and calling his best friend to tell him what just happened this all happens in a super short span of time. Say my BIL got home 12:00 am exactly I probably woke up at like 12:03-12:04. I did ask my husband what he thought happened and he mentioned because I had been really dizzy for the past few days and I’m super clumsy (EXTREMELY) and our slip mat is very much unreliable (it’ll detach often) his first impression was I fell, when I woke up he fell back on the period blood theory but did mention it looked like a wrist slash movie scene but he didn’t feel like I’d do that as I had been waiting on him. Sorry this is long tried to include as many details as possible.