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haifagirl
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From a different thread:

My parents didn’t yell at her and then got mad at my wife and I for yelling at her.

Here’s the rule:

Take the other person out of the sentence.

Would you say, “My parents . . . got mad at I”? Of course you wouldn’t! Just because you add another person into the sentence doesn’t change you from an object to a subject. You should have said, “My parents . . . got made at my wife and me . . . .”