AITA on Yik Yak | AITA for defending myself against my ex at a party? This happened a while ago and it keeps eating at me. I was at a party with some friends and at this point it had been about 1 1/2-2 years since we had broken up. Me and her noticed each other when I-1/?

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AITA for defending myself against my ex at a party? This happened a while ago and it keeps eating at me. I was at a party with some friends and at this point it had been about 1 1/2-2 years since we had broken up. Me and her noticed each other when I-1/?

Anonymous 5w

NTA. No one got hurt and you were preventing a lot of other people including yourself from getting hurt. Petty people play dumb games and earn dumb prizes

Anonymous 5w

I first got there but I just shrugged it off and went and partied. After being outside of the house I went inside to the dance floor with a friend. She was inside near the left side against a wall with some dude. It being packed I had to squeeze my way through the crowd and just so happened to go by her. As I passed her she proceeded to elbow me in my ribs with enough force for it to sting for most of the night. I paid no mind to her and kept going as to not start anything over something- 2/?

Anonymous 5w

Granted I wasn’t there but based on your story I’m assuming she thought she could get away with jabbing you and was shocked when you did the same to her in response. Even though you weren’t doing it “hard” a “soft” push from you is still gonna be stronger because of your size difference. She was “shaken up” because she thought she was immune and got a dose of reality. This is why you don’t put your hands on anyone you don’t want touching you back (unless it’s self defense).

Anonymous

OP 5w

So petty. After a whole of dancing I wanted to leave since that ended up ruining my night. So me and my friend take the same route to outside. After passing her again she tried pushing me into other people in the crowd, to which I responded with stiff arming and slightly pushing her into the dude she was with as to not get knocked into people myself. 3/?

Anonymous

OP 5w

Keep in mind I’m around 6ft 220 and she’s about 5,10 130 so I didn’t use much force to push her. Recently I had just heard from a mutual friend that she was “shaken up” by it. I’m just confused because I was the one who was assaulted? I knew she was a liar but something like this rubs me the wrong way.

Anonymous

#2 5w

The only way I could see you being the asshole is if you did something disproportionate in response (like if she slapped you and you punched her) but this isn’t that. Sounds like you were defending yourself from her trying to escalate things and she overestimated her abilities.

Anonymous

#2 5w

Yeah man I’m not a confrontational guy either so the most im doing is a light punch