'My sister stole my baby's name so I took revenge - my family say I overreacted'
When it comes to choosing a name for your baby, lots of parents can get quite possessive of particular monikers, especially if someone else wants to use it for their little darling too. While it must be said that no one owns a name and everyone is entitled to call their children whatever they want, some levels of social etiquette should be respected.
One woman has revealed how her family is furious with her for falling out with her sister after she used the same name as her. Taking to social media to share her anger, the new mum explained that she and her sister Kelly had never had a great relationship.
She wrote: “I know my judgment is probably biased because of this. Ever since we were kids, she would always try to copy or one-up me. For example: In school, she’d join every club or sport I was in and try to ‘beat’ me at it (debate, chess, tennis, etc). Kelly would always throw it in my face that she had ‘better friends’ than me, which really meant she was in with the popular crowd while I preferred to be friends with people that I actually liked.
“Anyway, Kelly and I were both pregnant at the same time. I was pregnant first, and once my partner and I found out the gender, we decided to use a name that I’ve loved since I was little: Josephine. Kelly knows that this is my dream baby name, and I thought that she’d have enough respect to consider this one name as off-limits, but no. Two weeks later, she and her boyfriend announced that they were pregnant with baby Josie.
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“I called her up to ask if she was really going to name her baby the same name as mine, and she smugly said that I was free to change my baby’s name because she hadn’t been born yet, never mind that she was less far along than I was.”
The woman and her partner decided to stick to their guns and named their daughter Josephine she was born. She went on: “We announced the birth on social media, and to my horror, the very next week, Kelly posted a picture of some custom blankets she’d ordered with the name Josie on them, ‘for (her) little JoJo’, which is a nickname my partner and I used for our Josephine in our post.”
Furious, the woman called her sister and demanded she change her plans to name her daughter Josie, pointing out that her daughter Josephine was already here and the birth certificate done. She went on: “I told Kelly bluntly that I was calling her bluff, and she told me that she wasn’t bluffing and that I was free to change my baby’s name or else there would be two JoJo’s in the family. I called her a huge narcissist and told her that she wasn’t welcome in my baby JoJo’s life if she went through with stealing my JoJo’s name.
"Two weeks after this, Kelly gave birth to her baby Josie. I didn’t contact her at all, not to offer support or to tell her off for stealing my baby’s name. I figured that she was in recovery and that I shouldn’t stress her out immediately after giving birth. Last week, Kelly called me up because she wanted to come over and meet my baby now that she’s six months old. I asked if she’d changed her baby’s name, and she confusedly said no.
“I reminded Kelly of what I’d told her back before our babies had been born, and she called me an ‘unreasonable b****’. Now the whole family is up in arms against me for not letting my sister meet her niece.”
People reading the Reddit post were torn about agreeing with which of the sisters was in the wrong. One person wrote: “Tell your family you're done with the constant competitions, and since they didn't put a stop to it when you were kids, you're putting a stop to it now before Kelly passes it on to the next generation. My ex bff stole my baby name. She knew what that name meant to me, who it was in honor of, and she didn't care. Someone that selfish doesn't deserve to be in your life, in my opinion.”
Someone else added: “This seems like the last straw for your relationship. Why would you let that crazy woman around your daughter? She is just trying to set up the sibling competition 2.0. Tell your family Kelly won't meet your daughter and they won't see her either unless they stand down. The time for them to be up in arms was when Kelly came up with her crazy plan and that time is past. Seriously how could your parents not call her out on this? How could her boyfriend not?”
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