Wife and Mother-In-Law Secretly Change Daughter's Name, Husband Left in the Dark

This mother and her mother-in-law plotted to secretly change their daughter's name, without telling the father, after the pair decided that they didn't like the name that had been chosen at the time of the child's birth. The father only discovered the plot when he overheard his wife calling the daughter by a different name and suddenly realized why their daughter had been so confused with responding to her name.

The couple had agreed that the wife would pick the name of their child was a boy and the husband if the child was a girl. They built in a "veto" rule for the name, just in case.

Throughout the pregnancy, his wife became delusional and was convinced that their baby would be a boy. To the point that she insisted everything be purchased for a boy. As a result, there was no planning or consideration on her part whatsoever for if the baby ended up being a girl. So, when the child was born, the name the husband had chosen was selected, with the wife agreeing to name the child that.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the husband,
u/Ok-Toe-5157, who is wondering if he is in the wrong for insisting on calling his daughter by the name that he wrote on her birth certificate and considered as her name for the first year of her life.

Usually, Reddit would be quick to take the wife's side in favor of the "controlling" husband in disputes over naming children. But this situation, with the whole "secret name change," is so bizarre and manipulative that Reddit was certain u/Ok-Toe-5157 is in the right here.

Childcare professionals out there… How early can childhood trauma start? Because this poor one-year-old will end up with some split personality disorder with the way these parents are raising her.

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Posted by Brad Dickson