DP and I have had an argument this evening and we can’t agree who is in the wrong, so we’ve decided to ask on here. Won’t say who is who for hopefully unbiased opinions!
Person A is stood on their phone, Person B walks past and flicks the phone up towards A. A gets angry and shouts that it’s unacceptable and sits down on the sofa. B comes and sites astride A, laughing and flicks the phone again. A lashes out and hits B on the shoulder.
A feels they are in the right as B has done the phone flicking thing lots of times before, though not regularly. A has expressed how much it annoys them and on occasion has dropped the phone. A feels their reaction lashing out was understandable as they felt trapped under B, B was laughing and did the thing that originally caused the argument again.
B feels that A is overreacting, that it was just a bit of fun and that they came to sit on A to lighten the mood. B thinks that laughing and doing it again shows it was meant to be playful, and that A reacting in the way they did is unacceptable.
Who is in the wrong?