'My entitled sister-in-law stole our baby name - I made her regret it'
A mum and dad held their ground in a family dispute over their newborn son's name after they claimed one 'entitled and toxic' relative tried to steal it for their own child first. In a detailed post shared via a throwaway account in an online forum, the dad spared no punches as he described how his sister-in-law had previously tried to thieve family heirlooms from his wife.
He explained: "My wife has a younger half-sister that she has been low contract with for some time. The woman is entitled and toxic, and also her mother's golden child. We've refused to let her or my mother-in-law in the house since they both blatantly tried to make off with my wife's jewelry box a couple of years ago."
Eventually, the couple in their 30s became pregnant with a boy after four years of trying and almost giving up. The ecstatic parents-to-be decided to call their son after the dad's Scottish grandfather. He carried on: "But we made the mistake of posting about it on social media. Well no surprise to the stereotype in this mess, my sister-in-law was pregnant too.
"And was months further along than my wife and also having a boy. She decided to claim my grandfather's name for her own son. And not just the first name, but the middle name too." The couple called up the sister-in-law and expressed their fury over what she was doing - "but she smugly told us there's nothing we can do about it," he added.
Undeterred, they insisted their son would still be named after the grandfather. However, the sister-in-law's baby's dad soon made his feelings clear on the phone: "[He] called me and said I was an unreasonable d**k for still wanting to use the name after sister-in-law claimed it.
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"I said she claimed nothing. And since we couldn't own the name, then neither could they. Before he ended the call he threatened me by saying I'd be sorry if we didn't change the name. Then he hung up before I could respond."
Within the space of two months, both baby boys were born - the sister-in-law's first - and both of them now had the same name. "Well no surprise my sister-in-law called us a few days after the birth to scream in our ears that we copied her son's name. I pointed out she was the real copycat since she had no familial ties to the name and we did. And anyone who looks at our family trees could see that," the dad added.
His wife then reminded her sister about the "attempted theft" of her grandmother's jewellery and said she no longer considered her a sibling and wanted nothing to do with her nephew as well. The post continued: "For months we were bombarded with messages and emails from my wife's side of the family. Half were on our side after finding out the whole story, the other half were not."
At one point the sister-in-law's baby's dad turned up at the door but left feeling humiliated. He wrote: "Baby-daddy true to his word showed up at my door to 'Make me sorry'. I'm not sure what his plan was. But I pretty much towered over him.
"I'm 6'1" and well built from regular exercise and three trips to the gym a week. He on the other hand was very skinny and about 5'6" with a babyface that was badly hidden by a slim beard. I told him my house has cameras, and to get off my property and never come back. He just yelled a few obscenities at me and drove off in his beat-up old car."
Following the incident, both the sister- and mother-in-law called the dad up and accused him of making "baby-daddy" feel emasculated. "I didn't even threaten the man. Just told him to leave and not come back. And if he didn't want to feel emasculated, then he shouldn't have come knocking," he added.
A huge row broke out on the phone, leaving the sister-in-law "sobbing" and the dad being labelled a "royal b*****d" by his mother-in-law. He said: "We held our ground and told them that they were bonkers to still think they were in the right after they copied our choice of name just to try and get one over on us.
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"I said sister-in-law didn't even name her son out of love, but out of spite just to try and stick it to my wife for no good reason. Then my wife called them both out on the way she was treated growing up, how entitled sister- and mother-in-law have always been, and how she was glad to leave them far behind."
Everything was then quiet for a while until the sister-in-law called the parents up to tell them that she had split up with her partner: "He was apparently very sore that she didn't let him even give their son a middle name from his family. And he said he was sick of the b*****t and wanted his son named after him and not some guy he wasn't even related to. Sister-in-law finally caved and they got the boy's birth certificate reissued with a completely new name, which cost around $500, or so she claims."
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The disgruntled sibling even demanded that they should compensate her for the "emotional damage" she'd have to go through with calling her son by a different name. He said: "We laughed and said this would have never happened if she hadn't stolen our baby name to begin with, and we didn't owe her anything."
Since then the couple have had no contact from both the sister- and mother-in-law, adding: "But my father-in-law who's a very nice man and divorced from her for obvious reasons would come by often and loves his grandson. From what he and other relatives told us the situation between sister-in-law and her Baby-Daddy was pretty tumultuous. But we don't care. Not our monkeys, not our circus."
One Reddit user commented on the family drama: "No one likes to lose. Entitled people have another name: sore losers." While many of the thousands of replies were thoroughly satisfied at the conclusion of the "great" story, as one wrote: "Yes! This was one of the most satisfying reads in a while; and I am petty enough to openly admit that I love the sister-in-law came out the loser in the end."
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