Posted on 04/23/2025 12:46:23 PM PDT by simpson96
A pregnant woman says that she's changing the name she and her husband had initially decided on for their unborn child — but her mother-in-law has already gotten a tattoo of the original name.
In a post shared to Reddit, the anonymous 30-year-old woman writes: "My husband and I are expecting our first child, a boy."
"We had a name we liked but never told anyone it was final," she adds.
But that didn't stop her mother-in-law from inking the name permanently on her body.
"My MIL (57), who has always been a bit much, took it upon herself to get the name tattooed on her wrist," she continues in the post. "We were shocked but still unsure about the name."
A month later, the couple ultimately decided "to go with something else."
"When she found out, she LOST IT, saying we 'disrespected' her, and now she’s demanding we change it back," the woman writes. "Even my husband is asking me to reconsider 'to keep the peace.' " She, however, refuses.
Reddit users are now chiming in on the situation, with many criticizing the mother-in-law for taking such a dramatic step in the first place.
Wrote one: "And thiiiiis is why we don't get names as tattoos."
Added another commenter: "Until the kid is HERE, the name is always hypothetical. Hell, I've read articles where people changed their baby's name months after birth because it didn't fit them. She's silly for jumping the gun."
Still others suggested a compromise.
"Can you use it as a middle name?" wrote a commenter. "Otherwise too bad for MIL she should have waited!"
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Lol.
Grandma is cray cray.
Sounds like the son married a woman like his mother.
Happens quite often.
Can you believe my in-laws brought it up two years later? Ludicrous.
People are funny, as in weird/strange. Nothing surprises me anymore.
She has always been a bit( mu)ch.
Tell us the names! Please tell us the names!
Now that’s funny.
Why did the husband tell his mother? Why is the husband playing his mother against his wife?
Yeah, that’s a bad sign.
Yep. You’ve identified the real problem in this story.
Tell her not to remove it. We know a young female who changed her name at 8 and then changed it back to the original name at 13.
A dear family friend showed me a chest tattoo he got of my dad’s name with DOB and passing date, as my dad helped him in a critical time of his life. He misspelled the name and got the dates wrong by a year. I never had the heart to tell him as it was the sentiment that counts.
Make mil the hodparent...she can rename the kid when the cou0le unexpectedly dies, soon.
I once knew a guy who had a tattoo on his wrist of a woman's name, and it wasn't the name of his wife. I guess she had come to terms with it, because they had been married for quite a few years.
my own mother in law was a bit much.
hope this couple relocates across the country!!!
Wow. Tat removal isn’t that expensive. But people do get them tattooed over into something else.
Grandma has never heard of temporary tattoos I suppose
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