Woman gets pregnant, demands 23-year-old cousin give up her name so her daughter can have it and fulfil 'family prophecy': 'I need you to release the name to her'

Pretty much every family has their traditions, and some take them more seriously than others. Some are pretty standard, fun things, like having a specific game that is played during the holidays. Others are a lot more idiosyncratic, and not everybody is going to subscribe to them to the same degree. It's a matter of taste, which will always differ from person to person.

This is especially true when it comes to the controversial area of beliefs and superstitions. If you are a skeptic but a relative is a diehard fan of this kind of thing, it can become difficult territory to navigate. Being implicated in things that you may think are irrational can be tiring at best and actively disrupt your life at worst. It becomes a big responsibility deciding how much you are willing to entertain some wild things and how much you will let them impact your family relationships.

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This is something one young woman unexpectedly found herself dealing with when her superstitious cousin made a strange demand of her. Her relative had always been observant of various spiritual traditions that she claimed were a part of the family, and when she got pregnant, this intensified.
She asked that the woman change her name so she could use it for her unborn daughter, insisting that this was how she would fulfil a “family prophecy”. She understandably refused the request, but she faced pushback. She wanted reassurance that she wasn't doing anything wrong.
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AITAH for refusing to let my cousin name her baby after me because of a "family prophecy"?

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Commenters assured her she wasn't doing anything wrong.

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