I (25M) have caused a family conflict after my dad (49M) inappropriately touched my girlfriend (23F). What do I do now?

My girlfriend and I went over to my parents house for dinner the other night. There was some alcohol involved. We were all drinking and having a good time. Now my dad has been known to flirt and talk to other women. This has included my girlfriend. My mom knows about it and is usually okay with it. She is a big flirt herself. I haven’t asked them about their sex lode as they are my parents but I could definitely see them as swingers. I’ve talked to my girlfriend about the comments that he makes. I told her that I would talk to him about it if it made her uncomfortable. She insisted that it didn’t and that she thought it was funny and actually nice to hear. I was kinda surprised that she felt this way but I wasn’t going to do anything about it since she was fine.

Well when we were about to leave we were giving our good bye hugs and stuff and he first pulled her in tightly and then he grabbed her butt, squeezed it, and said “son you’re a lucky guy.” She laughed and didn’t seem too upset by it. While she was walking away he made another inappropriate comment about it. I had enough then and told him to stop and that he was being disgusting. He got riled up and said to stop being such a p*ssy about it. I started yelling back at him and cussed at him. He started coming at me but my girlfriend pulled me away. When we were riding home she asked me why I had to cause that. I told her that I thought it was gross that my dad would do something like that. She told me that she believed I was wrong for causing that fight because she didn’t have a problem with what he was doing. She said she took it as a compliment and thought it was funny. She also said that it was rude for me to try to take up for her like that, that if I respected her that I would have let her handle herself.

Since then she has seemed upset with me. I haven’t heard from my dad but my mom texted me and said that what I did was uncalled for too. Was I wrong here? Should I apologize to my girlfriend or is our relationship even worth saving? How do I handle things with my family moving forward?

TL;DR- my dad inappropriately touched my girlfriend now everyone is upset with me.

Submitted September 02, 2020 at 11:52AM by throwratoota https://ift.tt/3lGxZMZ