AITA for facetiming my husband so our toddler could talk to him during his brother’s bachelor party?

I think your brother is right. I'm not exactly sure, but calming the crying son is more of an excuse. I understand that the boy is 2 years old and attached to his father, but assuming we're going with what you said, your main reason was so that you wouldn't have to hear your son continue crying. At some point in the future, your son is going to have to get used to the fact that his father won't tell him that he loves him before leaving, be it because he had to leave in a hurry or because his son wasn't in the room for him to say it to him. However, it's been my experience that children eventually stop and will eventually get used to their parents leaving and not telling him anything. The separation anxiety to most normally functioning children will go away. So I really don't see the reason that you had to call him during his brother's bachelor party.

I'm sure in the future, you're going to want a weekend to yourself (without thinking of your child), and you're going to hate him calling you to interrupt you about your child crying. Even though it would be nice if a child can hear his parents say those magic words all the time, it's not always going to happen, and I think your reason was just so you don't have to hear your son crying.

I'm going to give a very mild YTA.

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