Pulling out your phone while with your boyfriend's parents?! Dude.... Not cool. Way to make a great first impression!! But that is super weird that they would take your phone away. Awkward!

I'd tell my boyfriend that i wasn't coming to his house again until his parents learn to treat guests better.

Also, why didn't the parents ask first if they had a legitimate reason to be checking her phone? I take medications at set times, maybe OP was checking the time to see if a medication was due--or would they confiscate those too? Perhaps she has an ill relative or over-protective parents and was checking they hadn't texted or called. And for everyone saying: someone would have called in an emergency? Not necessarily, some people only have 'texting' credit or free texts rather than calling credit. Bottom line: Boyfriends parents sound like domineering 'holier than thou' people and i wouldn't get involved with their family. (can you imagine the engagement dinner? What if her father checks his phone? will he get it confiscated too??)

You wouldn't pull a book out to read at the dinner table, so why would you pull out a phone?! If you were waiting for an important message it's common courtesy to explain you're waiting for an important message and is it okay to have the phone at the table. I would have taken the phone off her too, and given it back after dinner.

Good for them. I find it rather rude when someone texts when I'm trying to talk to them.

I don't blame them it's fucken rude, and doing that someone else house.

Ok you're obviously still like 13, or the parents are out of their mind telling that to someone over 25..plus it is rude to check your phone in presence of company, espicially the first time meeting your boyfriends parents...you do need to learn etiquette. It will help you out as an adult

Good for them!

I fail to see how it's rude to use a phone at a table, and even if it is they had no right to take your phone as if you were one of their kids.

Oh man this one pisses me right off, and all the twighlight nuthugging teenagers who dont understand what the OP did wrong... The new generation just doesn't get it. They think every txt needs to be immediately responded to. Just because she didnt reply doesnt make it less rude. what kind of technical lawyer BS is THAT? And even if there were some super important message you're waiting for, unless you're a surgeon or somehow actually responsible for something urgently seriously important, you can wait a half an hour, or an hour to hear about it. When you were born, there were no mobile phones, you left the house and people left you a message. We survived.