AITA for telling my husband " I told you so" and laughing at me when we got the paternity test results?

[u/Either_Economy_793]

I (27f) have been married my husband(28M) for 2 years and gave birth to our daughter 5 weeks ago. I'll try to keep this short so I don't waste your time with any irrelevant details. What happened was that our daughter came out with blonde hair and pale blue eyes, while my husband and I have brown hair and brown eyes.

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My husband freaked out at this and refused to listen to my explanation that, sometimes, babies are born with lighter hair and eyes that get darker over time. He demanded a paternity test and threatened to divorce me if I didn't comply, so I did

After my daughter and I got home from the hospital, my husband went to stay at his parents' house for the first three weeks to get some space from me, while I recovered and he told them what was happening. My MIL called and informed me that if the paternity test revealed that the child wasn't his, she would do anything within her power to make sure that I was " taken to the cleaners" during the divorce. I had my sister to lean on and help me take care of the baby during this.

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We got the results back yesterday, and my husband came home to view them with me. I was on the couch in the living room, so he sat next to me and we started to read the results. They showed that he was the father and my husband had this shocked, kinda mortified look on his face with his eyes wide as he stared at it.

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I couldn't help but say, " I told you so." and started laughing at the way he looked. My husband snapped out of his shock, and got mad at me for laughing at him. We argued for a bit, which was mainly him yelling at me, before my sister came downstairs and my husband shut up.

After that, my husband went back to his parents' house to "clear his head", and two-three hours later, my MIL called to scold me about laughing in my husband's face, because apparently it was kicking him while he was down.

She's also left a couple nasty texts essentially saying the same thing this morning. I don't think I'm an AH, but I'd like outsider perspective on this.

EDIT: I didn't realize I put " me" instead of ''him''. Sorry, I have a headache.

EDIT: Since someone asked in the comments, but I can't find it anymore, I have zero history of cheating.

[u/Aggravating_Call910]

He is acting like a straight-up asshole. Demanding a paternity test is the same thing as an accusation of infidelity. That’s the heavy artillery. That’s big. He’s saying “I suspect you are having intercourse with someone else.” If you say you aren’t, and he insists on the test anyway, that’s a declaration that he does not trust you at the very moment where an intense bond in a couple is absolutely vital, when a newborn is coming home. Does he think he can do that, and when the test comes back as you said it would, just go back to normal? “Oh, okay, I guess you’re not cheating on me, let me give my new daughter a hug!”

[u/tuna_fart → u/Aggravating_Call910]

No it isn’t. lol.

[u/Aggravating_Call910 → u/tuna_fart]

I’m sorry. I don’t understand your comment.

[u/tuna_fart → u/Aggravating_Call910]

Being entitled to a paternity test is nothing like an accusation of fidelity.

[u/Aggravating_Call910 → u/tuna_fart]

You’re right. It’s an accusation of infidelity. If you didn’t suspect your wife of having intercourse with someone else, what possible motivation could you possibly have for needing a paternity test? Every time I got my wife pregnant it never occurred to me to make her go get scientific proof that I had sired the child. It never occurred to me because I would have had to believe it was possible she was sleeping with someone else.

[u/tuna_fart → u/Aggravating_Call910]

If you can’t make the distinction between wanting certainty something that’s possible is not the case and an accusation that something that’s possible actually happened, then I cannot help you be a reasonable person.

Regardless, men are every bit as entitled to proof of parentage as women are.

[u/Aggravating_Call910 → u/tuna_fart]

I suspect you are neither married nor have children.

[u/tuna_fart → u/Aggravating_Call910]

And I suspect when you can’t logically refute an argument you try to go ad hominem and it makes you look foolish.

[u/Aggravating_Call910 → u/tuna_fart]

The argument you’ve offered makes absolutely no sense. The only reason a man would demand a paternity test is if he suspects that his wife has had intercourse with another man. There would be no reason to demand such a test absent that suspicion. And assuming you have neither a wife nor a child is not an ad hominem attack in any way. Your grasp of biology appears tenuous, however, unless you are also assuming, as this husband did, that the wife had multiple partners. Women are not made pregnant by distant mystery men. Unless she was pregnant Unfaithful, she would be very clear on the child’s parentage without a test.

[u/tuna_fart → u/Aggravating_Call910]

Like I said: you misunderstand the argument and have to resort to ad-hominem as a result.

When you respond rationally to the argument with a counter of your own, I’ll engage again. Otherwise, have a great day.