An expectant couple have been left furious after a family member 'stole' their dream baby name, then demanded they come up with a new name for their child.
The parents to be, who are now seven months pregnant with their first child explained on a popular Reddit forum that they have already picked out the name of their baby boy.
"We started searching for a first and middle name and since I come from Irish origins we decided to settle on my great uncle's first name and my grandfather's middle name," the man said.
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"We told my in-laws about it and my brother-in-law, who is a doctor with a superiority complex, thought the name was awesome. Unbeknown to us, he and his wife decided to basically take not just the first but the middle name and use them for their son who was born three weeks ago."
The couple then said they decided to stick with their original choice of meaningful name, despite there now already being a child with the exact same name in the family.
"We didn't make a fuss out of it until my brother-in-law called to ask about 'the new names' we chose. I told him we're still sticking with the original first and middle names we chose. He sounded confused saying we no longer have a right to these names after he and his wife 'claimed them' and said it was strange that we're still planning on using them," he continued.
"I laughed and said that they didn't claim s***! The fact of the matter is, he and his wife stole those names from us and should deal with it."
After his wife backed him up on the phone, the brother in law hung up the phone before getting in touch with the whole family and encouraging them to get in touch and demand they change the names. Instead, he chose a long list of alternative names and insisted they pick from there instead.
"My wife got into a fight with him just a day ago and told him he and his wife didn't even choose those names out of love, but out of spite," he wrote.
"My father-in-law came over in the evening and started yelling obscenities at me, accusing me of turning his daughter against her brother, calling me a pity b******, and claiming I own neither of those to name despite having familial ties with. I said if I don't own those names then his doctor son sure as hell doesn't."
In the end, the argument escalated so much that the man had to threaten his father-in-law with the police to get him to leave.
He added "Now getting mother-in-law constantly calling my wife telling her to do the right thing if she still wants a relationship with her nephew. The conflict gets worst and my wife's caving in and cracking under pressure, I keep refusing to change the name," he concluded, before turning to Reddit to question whether he was doing the right thing.
One Reddit user commented: "He basically said, 'Hey I like what you’re doing, so I’m gonna and you can't.' That's not how the world works. Also that family sounds messed up man."
"They're all crazy. If you had the name first you got the rights to it and anything else is wrong," another added. "Why are people threatening you with not seeing family? That's evil on the mother-in-law's behalf. Brother-in-law has ego issues. Don't change the name!!"
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