'Hopefully she learns a lesson': Internet supports pregnant woman after dispute with MIL over a 'secret'
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: A Reddit user, and her fiance are expecting a girl. They already chose the ideal name for their unborn child, but they wanted to wait to share it until after the baby was born. This expectant mother gave her FMIL the incorrect baby name because she knew she couldn't keep a secret.
However, the Internet has supported the woman's decision. The post gained a lot of attention from Redditors across the platform, as it garnered over 1,000 comments The user took to the platform and shared her concerns on a post titled, "AITA for deliberately telling my FMIL the wrong name of our baby?"
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The expectant mother wrote, "I 23F and my fiancé 25M are expecting a baby girl next month, we're really excited as this is our first child and we've been trying to prepare for parenthood. A lot of our family have been helping us with baby stuff and giving us general advice, they're also really super excited for her! Especially my FMIL."
'She's a very stubborn person'
The user then shared concerns about her future-mother-in-law and wrote, "She's a very stubborn person and hasn't really accepted me as apart of the family yet, she always tells my fiancé how he could do so much better than me and that he's fallen into the trap of having 'my' child. It's hurt me a lot and my fiancé has had a talk to her about it but she still hasn't apologised or anything so I just tend to ignore it now. She's also one of them mums who posts every little detail of their life to Facebook like when my fiancé proposed she was straight to Facebook before we could announce it ourselves."
The woman further added,, "Recently me and my fiancé have been coming up with names for our little girl and we both decided on the perfect name. A few days ago on a phone call my fiancé accidentally slips up by telling my FMIL that we've chosen a name. She's been non stop messaging us and calling us to find out the name, we don't want to tell her until the baby is born so that it doesn't ruin the surprise and the whole of Facebook finds out before we are comfortable telling everyone."
She then explained how FMIL tried "guilt tripping" her and wrote, " She tried guilt tripping my fiancé by telling him how he's hurting her by not telling his own mother the name of her grandchild, that he doesn't love him and that we (especially me) are gonna try and keep her from seeing the baby. I'm not sure why she would think that as nothing we have said has suggested it."
The woman continued, " To stop her from getting on my fiancé's back I wrote a message saying that if she wants to know she can't post it on Facebook, she agreed and I told her a fake name. 5 minutes later into checking FB. 'I can't believe I'm going to be a granny to baby Charlotte next month. So proud of (fiancé's name) and his partner!'"
'My fiancé was furious'
The user then explained why his fiance was furious and wrote, "My fiancé was furious and called her and told her that she was wrong to announce it. She said that she was so overjoyed by it that she couldn't resist. He told her how that wasn't even the name and that we aren't gonna tell her until she's born and hung up. Its been afew days and my fiancé has been getting texts from her saying that she didn't mean and that I'm the AH for telling her the wrong name. Her words were 'Who even tells their FMIL the wrong name of their grandchild?'. AITA?"
'Hopefully she learns a lesson'
As soon as the post was uploaded it was spilled with Redditors' views, as one of the users wrote, "NTA. FMIL is TA, though, for being incredibly nosy and making your private details as public as possible. I think she should be the last to know anything and hopefully she learns a lesson in keeping private things private."
The second user wrote, "NTA but you missed the chance to tell her she ruined the name for you and now you had to change it, rather than admitting you gave her the wrong name." Another one added, "NTA - tell her that even if she finds out the name you will change it deliberately so only you can be the one to announce YOUR child’s name."
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