After they broke up, he changed it to "Wino Forever"
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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Apologies. After rereading; I see what you are saying. You had the misfortune of my ire at previous posters being directed at you. Mea culpa (to you)
After they broke up, he changed it to "Wino Forever"
Sorry bro. No tats since I’ve been redeemed. I’m covered as far as salvation goes; something about the new covenant breaking the mosaic covenant. I’m glad my Father doesn’t judge like you do, I’d be in a world of hurt.
You give yourself too much credit for irritating people who really don't care one way or another what you do with your own body.
Someone can not like tattoos and not want to date someone with them without getting all worked up and angry over it.
Your imagination is working overtime on what you perceive other's responses to be.
Having d’Quontavarius tattooed across her forehead might help with employment ... won’t it?
My dear metmom; did you not see the numerous posts calling them trash people, assuming women are whores because of tattoos, etc? I don’t think I imagined that. Lots of vitriol towards a whole group of people, many MAGA, that chose to get a tattoo, for whatever reason. Sounds very judgemental to me.
I apologized to those who deserve it, and I treat you with respect because you merely expressed your opinion. But please don’t gaslight me by saying that I’m imagining what I read in black and white from many.
People with lots of tattoos scare me... Because you never know what might happen with that much stupid around.
Lots of tattoos has always told me one thing... That I don't want to know you.
I don’t know anyone who gets angry because of other people’s stand on tattoos.
THAT’S what you gloated about.
Disapproving or even name calling does not necessarily equate to *anger*. You flatter yourself if you interpret their comments that way. Seems like you like the thought that you’re getting under someone’s skin.
I doubt a one of them loses sleep over it at night.
everyone else wants to express their individualitY
Like having an I Am Unique club with everyone wearing the same tee shirt
Getting tattoos leads one to minimum wage jobs and limited hiring opportunities. Do you really want to wait tables or work in call centers the rest of your life?
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/on-average-people-who-have-tat-vg1Jv838SGWrAxrVRPjrFg
Is your husband from somewhere else where it would have been a cultural norm for his parents to have believed that or was this just something they came up with on their own?
Im just curious, Ive never heard of that.
Mike hunt
Like putting a bumper sticker on a rolls Royce
The headline is deliberately misleading. It makes it sound like the woman did it intentionally to spite the m-i-l and she’s the bad guy because she didn’t pick the unborn baby’s name until AFTER she gave birth.
But what else do you expect from People magazine?
He’s from “here”, though we were from two different parts of the US. He’s from the Northeast and I’m from the South. Two different cultures in many regards.
The trouble was that he was from a line of family where it was like a third (III) situation. His father wasn’t a junior, but it was like that. The first name remained the same, the middle name was chosen. Senior, junior, III, IV, and so on.
We picked out two names, one his family’s way, with a middle name as chosen, with a plan to call the son by the middle name instead of the first name. The other choice was to have the family name in the middle.
My husband got to choose. It was his choice to break the tradition (a little). We always knew we didn’t want to have a son called by his same first name. His grandfather, his father, and he were all called by the same first name, and by then time you get to the fourth, well, you’re a little out of good nicknames for a short name.
I respected that they got to choose the names of their children, and I just wanted to be able to choose the name of my own child. I let my husband make the final choice, when our son was born. It would’ve rocked the boat either way, because if we had chosen the family’s way, they wouldn’t have wanted to call our son by his middle name, so that would’ve been confusing.
I hate to say it, but I had a difficult relationship with my in-laws for most of the time of our marriage. It seems that only the last 15 years they have been more accepting of me. We managed 40 years of marriage despite the rocky start. FIL passed away about ten years ago, and MIL now adores me. I don’t know what took so long. Hubby’s sisters have all been fine, it was just the parents.
And a grown woman at that - practically a senior citizen. Product of a trash culture.
SNL’s Pete Davidson has spent $200,000 his tattoos so far. Laser removal.
The first tattoo billionaire will open up an MDs laser removal office across the street.
Open up a bar next to a busy tattoo parlor. You arrange with the tattoo parlor that for every dollar the patron spends on alcohol, he gets a 50 cent discount on his tattoos. This makes the tattoo upselling lots easier.
Drink $20 worth = $10 tattoo discount.
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