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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/rock_fact on 2023-06-25 21:06:12+00:00.
We were at family dinner and we were all sitting around talking and enjoying each other’s company. My toddler (21 months F) was standing by my FIL (60sM) and started grabbing my MIL’s (60sF) phone off the table.
I don’t love when my daughter takes her phone but my MIL doesn’t care and typically will let her take pictures with it. point being, it was not a big deal that she was grabbing the phone and FIL knows this. oh, and the room we were in was carpeted so her dropping it wasn’t a huge concern.
I hear my FIL yell “no!” in a really harsh tone, so I turn around (I’m approximately 4 feet away on the other end of the table) and he is aggressively grabbing my daughter by the straps of her tank top with his hand twisted around them trying to grab the phone back. My MIL was sitting next to him and again, did not seem to care that she was taking the phone.
I yelled his name and told him to stop but no one else at the table seemed to think I was right for that or that he was doing something wrong. Had he just gently told her no, I would have intervened and grabbed the phone back from her but I didn’t even get the chance. My daughter started crying in a way I have never heard her cry before, I think because she was scared.
AITA because I yelled at my FIL and possibly overreacted?