A woman on Reddit has found herself in the midst of some major drama with her sister-in-law lately, and believe it or not, it's all over the name she gave gave her daughter years ago. According to the poster, her sister-in-law wants her to start calling her daughter by her middle name instead of her first name, because (get this) she's having a girl too, and she wants the name for herself.
The Reddit poster admits that her SIL has been a problem for some time.
The woman, now 26, says her 32-year-old sister-in-law has always been a bit, shall we say … competitive.
"She's always tried to one up me, as she married into the family first (our husbands are brothers) and she resents that I had a kid before her," the Reddit poster explained.
The poster says she got pregnant at 21 while she and her husband were still dating.
At the time, they had wanted to name their daughter Sophie, but when the poster's mom suddenly passed away before the baby was born, they decided to make a last-minute switch.
Instead, they used her late mother's middle name — Lily — as their daughter's first name, and moved Sophie to the second spot. So when their little girl arrived in 2016, she was officially named Lily Sophie.
Now, some four years later, her SIL is pregnant.
The trouble arose when discussing baby names for girls, and the sister-in-law told her that "the only name she liked was Lily."
And no, she's not budging on it.
"She said absolutely no other name will do and she even came up to me and asked if I would start calling my Lily by her middle name of Sophie so the only Lily in the family is her kid," the poster shared.
(Yes, you read that correctly.)
Obviously, the mom was furious.
I mean, the woman was triying to take her daughter's name — four years after she named her!
So, she put her foot down.
"I told her no, that's my daughters name and she just had to pick the one name that has some meaning to me cause it was my mom's middle name," the woman said. "I know she is doing this just to spite me."
But apparently, this didn't settle the matter.
"She keeps harassing me and I told her to leave me the f— alone and she can pick any other name in the world that didn't belong to MY dead mom who has no meaning to her," she continued. "I heard she and my BIL have reluctantly picked another name, but she is calling me an AH for 'ruining her perfect name.'"
Oof.
To make matters worse, her in-laws have put her in a tough spot.
In the comments, people happily jumped ALL OVER this SIL who is being ridiculous.
"I'm sorry, what?" wrote one person. "This is unbelievably entitled. Surely there are other names in the world that aren't A. your daughter's name and B. deeply meaningful to you on account of your mom! Your SIL sounds like a major, un-empathetic AH. I don't know if there's a term for a pregnancy Bridezilla-Babyzilla? Momzilla?"
"Who goes to someone and tells them 'Hey, can you call your 4-year-old something else because I wanna use her name, K thx," added someone else. "This is straight up sick, doesn't your husband talk to his brother and say this isn't okay?"
Some people argued that the SIL does have a right to name her kid whatever she wants ...
… but telling someone else what they can and cannot call their kid? That's where it gets pretty ballsy.
"Honestly she can call her daughter Lily too and leave you out of it," wrote one person. "Expecting to own the copyright of a name is just ludicrous."
The poster later clarified that she actually would have been fine with it if the SIL simply named her daughter Lily too — but trying to strategically "steal" it from her? Well, that's another matter.
We're sure glad this poster stuck to her guns, but man oh man does it sound like she's in for a rough ride with this SIL.
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