One woman admits her sister was 'very upset' that she wasn't honoured by the fact her sibling had named a newborn baby after her. Considered by some to be an honour, the woman revealed she can't hide her anger at the decision.
Many new mothers and fathers may choose the name of a grandparent or other loved one for their little one, but one woman admits the use of her name by her sibling doesn't sit right after she welcomed a new baby in to the world in February, reports the Mirror.
The angered woman explained that she and her half-sister grew up to the same mum but different dads, and only recently rekindled their relationship after being raised by their fathers.
The woman also revealed her relationship with her mother was so strained that she legally changed her birth name to the one her father gave her.
But this change was not well received by her half-sister as she told her she only knew the woman by her old name. This caused quite the riff when a baby announcement post was made in an attempt to 'honour' the woman - a decision that led to frosty conversations between the siblings.
In a post on Reddit, the woman explained: "My sister is my half-sister. We share a mum, but we did not exactly grow up together. I was 11 and she was three when we lived separately with our respective dads. In the time between that and our reuniting, I legally changed my first name (because my mum named me and f**k her, I wanted to have a name my dad gave me).
"My sister [only ever] heard me [being referred to by] my old name. When we met back up she was sad I had changed my name and asked if she could still call me by my old name. I said no. I told her I hated that name, hated that it represented Mum more than anyone and to call me by the name I use now. It took her a while to use the right one and I can't say in total honesty she uses it all the time. She probably uses the old one behind my back.
"She's now 23 and had a baby girl in February. She named her my original name and announced to the world that she had named her after me and wanted to honour me in her name, because I was her only sibling and she wanted us to be in each other's lives forever.
"This was how I learned about it. I didn't respond to it. She then called and asked me what I thought and I told her I didn't consider it an honour for me. She was very upset."
The sister reached out to her sibling who told her she was 'being mean' about the ordeal and that the woman should be honoured by the decision.
She added: "The other day she told me we need to discuss this and how could I not be super touched that she named her daughter after me? I told her she used a name I hated and got rid of as soon as I was able and did not go by.
"I told her that was no honour to me when she named her daughter. I told her it was because she liked the name and it was one she had some emotional connection to, but I would never be touched she chose that name.
"My sister told me I was being mean and that's the name everyone knew me by longest. I told her it was the name SHE knew me by the longest. She chose a name I told her repeatedly I hated and she does not get to tell me I have to see that as an honour."
The community on Reddit were in the corner of the irked woman, with one branding her half-sister 'delusional'.
They said: "She really needs to learn to drop it, holy f**k. She also obviously cannot dictate how you feel about a name. She sounds delusional."
While another added: "You get to determine who you are, and you get to determine what matters to you. Your sister is being obnoxiously assertive, refusing to acknowledge that dynamic."
Another said: "You tell her over and over that you hate the name and hate any association with the name. Doesn't matter how much you try to make your point, some people just don't know how to listen."
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