Dear Abby: I’m 22, and my boyfriend is 21. We’ve been dating for a few months. At a recent family dinner, his maternal grandfather hit on me.

I was helping to clear the dinner table and leaned across the table to grab some dirty plates when Grandpa shoved his hand up my skirt. Then he leered at me, and my survival instincts kicked in.

I slapped him across the face so hard he fell off his chair. It created a scene, and my boyfriend’s mother screamed at me.

My boyfriend’s sisters tried to downplay what he did, dismissing Grandpa’s behavior as “he’s just a scamp!” I left the house in a hurry, and the family is now talking about suing me for assault.

I’m dumbfounded, and now I’m second-guessing myself. I have told my boyfriend we are over, and he’s upset because we had a nice relationship.

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