I don’t understand how people can send their partners downstairs by themselves to check on things when things go bump in the night

Cause like waiting for them is fucking way scarier than going down with them, waiting is like “Well they’ve probably been murdered and any minute the murderer will open the bedroom door and I won’t have anywhere to run” whereas if you go with them, you know you can bean the hypothetical murderer from behind with a heavy flashlight while your partner has them distracted. IDK I feel it’s the less terrifying option.