AIO: My husband jokes about physically hitting me, both in private and with friends/family
So this started about 7 or 8 months ago. I’m 30 (F) and my husband is 32 (M). We’ve been married for about 3 years now, no kids. It started about middle of last year, when we were with a group of friends just chilling, and the women in the group all brought up funny sleeping patterns of our partners, and I chimed in that my husband would sometimes accidentally swat or hit me when he turns over in bed. He then joked that “I wasn’t sleeping guys! I meant to hit her!”. At that point everyone laughed and I did too, chalking it up to just him joking around. I brushed it off.
Shortly after that, we were in the kitchen where I asked him to hand me the rolling pin because he was closer to the drawer. He took it out and lightly charged at me while saying “what if I hit you with it?”, then laughed. This left a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach, but again, I brushed it off. For those wondering at this point if this is just his sense of humor, he has always been a bit goofy but never used to joke about violence or hitting me.
Another incident was also in front of my friends and family - we were all walking along a street headed for dinner when a really big man walked past us and he just said “imagine how easy it would be for him to crush you”. My sister-in-law heard this and even she was like “what an odd thing to think about.”
There were other smaller incidents and remarks that are similar in nature to the ones I mentioned above. He has not physically hurt me in any way yet, and I would say besides these “jokes”, he is otherwise a good husband, but I find myself flinching here and there when he makes sudden physical movements because I instinctively am more protective of myself now, which I know isn’t normal in a healthy relationship. I have not brought this up to him yet but I definitely will if he keeps this up.
Am I overreacting and could he really just mean the above as jokes? And even so, am I wrong for not being comfortable with this behavior?