TIFU telling what I thought was a light joke, but Wife thought it was disrespectful & I probably embarrassed her.

This weekend we met up with some friends, some very old and some new. Little context first, my wife's friend, I have actually known since elementary school, but they only became friends and in high school.

We played some games and had some drinks. All was going well when one of the newer friends asked if my wife learned, or heard about me from her friend since we had known each other for so long. That is when I thought it would be funny to blow hot air up everyone's butt and claim that "oh all the girls knew about me in high school." But in reality I only had one solid girlfriend before dating my wife and now we've been together for over a decade. I should have stopped there, while everyone rolled their eyes at me trying to claim I was "talk of the town". But for some reason I decided to also add the detail, a realization I guess, that the only women I did get any luck with all worked together. And I had earned 3 of their numbers, hence here comes the next joke "I must have been doing something right *wink *wink". Again I think everyone knows me for so long that its obvious I was just exaggerating how much of a ladies man I was. In actuality, very tame, very boring dating life I feel. My body count is 2. Wife knows this. No mystery. Oh and we been together for so long. All reasons I didn't think none of it would be taken seriously.

Well. 24 hours go by and my wife tells me she felt like I didn't need to share that with our friends. She felt like they were looking at her for a response. As if "how can your husband could be saying this stuff". When she told me, I felt terrible, I couldn't believe I made her feel that way at all, and that she didn't tell me until the next day and let it sit with her for so long. I tried to explain it was all in good fun, and I only told those jokes because the people we were with know me, and already know my history and know its all hot air. But, I totally just apologized and owned up that I embarrassed her, and I never would want to make her feel embarrassed like that. She told me to not feel sad about it. She even gave me a kiss, and told me she really didn't think about it all day.

It still messed with me all night. I still feel bad about the way I made her feel. I think I will have some flowers sent to her work.

TL;DR: bragged how I was such a "ladies man" I was back in the day to some friends in front of my wife as a joke. Wife did not appreciate it.