AITA for removing the door to my son's room indefinitely?
A sudden, deafening crash shattered the calm of an ordinary afternoon, sending a wave of panic through a mother’s heart.
Alone in the house with only her son, she faced a terrifying silence behind a locked door—each unanswered call deepening the dread that something terrible had happened.
Summoning courage she didn’t know she had, she broke through the barrier, driven by a mother’s instinct to protect.
Relief flooded in as she found her son safe, but the haunting mystery of that loud sound lingered, a stark reminder of how quickly peace can unravel.
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The original poster (OP) is dealing with the immediate fallout of an extreme reaction: breaking down a locked door in a panic after hearing a loud noise, only to find her son was unharmed and intentionally ignoring her distress to watch a movie.
Her subsequent decision to refuse to replace the door, framing it as a consequence of his behavior, pits the son's demand for privacy and a door against the mother's safety concerns and need for accountability.
Was the OP justified in breaking the door due to fear, and is denying him a replacement door—forcing him to use the bathroom for privacy—an appropriate consequence for his dangerous disregard for his mother's well-being?
Or does the son have a fundamental right to privacy, even if his initial actions caused the situation?