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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/AtmosphereTop5830 on 2023-09-17 17:40:52.
My 10yo Alden is a pretty good kid. I know he’s starting puberty and he’s had emotional moments. Sometimes he’ll have a bath over a shower and then ask me to stay with him to stay so we can chitchat.
Last night, Alden was calling me from the bathroom but I was outside cleaning out my car. My wife called Alden what he wanted. He said he wanted to play hangman with bathtub markers.
My wife misunderstood that he wanted to play hangman when he wanted to play hangman with me, not anyone else. She went upstairs and the minute Alden saw her coming to the bathroom, he quickly slammed door because he didn’t want her to see him in all his glory.
My wife was angry and she was taking away all of his electronics for a week. When I came inside and my wife related this to me, I told her she was wrong. She should had announced that she was going to the bathroom and or asked if it was okay to come in. Yes, slamming the door was wrong too but she could had used common sense to avoid it.
At first she refused until I asked her what if this had happened to and it was our daughter (if we had one)? She apologized to Alden and a few hours later she told me she didn’t mean the apology and it was not a hill worth dying on.