Story;
Last night about 11pm, I am in bed BF'ing 5 day old baby (so a bit hormonal and so on), 2 older DC in bed. DH comes up and says can you here that noise from next door? I can hear crashing and banging and slamming noises, he says that from the kitchen you can also hear crying and shouting etc. He says shall I go and tell them to shut it, and I say no way, stay out of that, they sound pretty worked up.
10 mins later he comes back and says he thinks maybe the woman needs help and we should do something, I say call the cops then and get them to come quick, but do not get directly involved.
Now the next thing I hear is some serious almighty screaming and banging, and then our front door opening and shouting outside. I start calling DH's name and no answer, I'm half naked and attached to baby so can't move,I can hear shouting in the street. A good few mins pass and he comes back in saying your man is gone, he went to ask your woman if she was ok and she went for him and then slammed the door in his face. The man (who had something in his hand, poss weapon) said sorry to DH that she was a lunatic and then legged it.
Am I BU to be absolutely furious with DH for going out there instead of calling the cops? All I could think of was news reports along the lines of "innocent bystander killed in domestic" or "Good samaratin stabbed in street brawl" and so on. I know his instinct was to a) help someone if they were in trouble and b) try not to have our kids disturbed, but I think he should have locked the door and phoned the police.
We live in a pretty quiet area and this tenant is new, only in a few weeks, so we are hoping that it is not going to be a pattern (and I'll be calling their landlord to report it), but I'm just wondering if AIBU, as DH thinks I am over-reacting due to having the new baby.
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AIBU?
For being furious with DH for being A Good Person?
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pooexplosions · 07/10/2009 11:03
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