AITAH for embarrassing my husband's coworker for embarrassing me and my husband?
The narrator (OP, 33F) and her husband (32M), a Black couple, recently welcomed their first child after years of trying to conceive.
Shortly after the birth, the husband shared a birth announcement email with a photo of their newborn son to his entire office.
A few weeks later, the husband learned that a new, young male coworker had been spreading rumors, claiming the baby could not be his because the infant was too light-skinned and had straight hair, suggesting infidelity.
Although the coworker was eventually moved to a different shift, the OP encountered him at a recent company family event and publicly confronted him about the defamatory comments.
The husband later expressed that the OP overstepped by bringing up the past issue, leaving the OP to question if her actions were appropriate given that she was the one being targeted by the slander.
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The central conflict revolves around the OP feeling a need to defend her reputation and marriage against serious, racially-tinged defamatory statements made by a coworker, while her husband believed the situation was resolved once the coworker was moved away from his immediate work area.
The core question for consideration is whether the OP was justified in publicly confronting the source of the slander at a professional event to ensure the matter was fully settled, or if her intervention was an overreaction that potentially created unnecessary new professional repercussions.