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A lady who’s pregnant along with her first baby says she and her fiancé have lastly settled on a reputation for his or her child — nevertheless it’s one her buddy claims to have “dibs” on.
In a publish shared to Reddit, the nameless, 24-year-old lady writes that the identify is “distinctive however not too on the market, has sentimental worth for us, and simply feels proper.”
“We’ve been preserving it principally personal, however I did point out it to my shut buddy, Sarah (24F), the opposite day,” she provides.
However when she advised Sarah the identify, her buddy “flipped out.”
“She mentioned she had ‘referred to as dibs’ on that identify years in the past for her future child. Thoughts you—she’s not pregnant, not attempting, and doesn’t even know if she needs children anytime quickly,” the poster provides. “She acquired tremendous upset and mentioned I used to be being egocentric by ‘stealing’ the identify once I knew she had all the time deliberate to make use of it.”
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The publish continues: “I advised her I wasn’t altering it. It’s the identify my fiancé and I like, and I’m not giving it up over some hypothetical child she might need in the future. She acquired mad and mentioned I used to be being thoughtless and {that a} ‘actual buddy’ wouldn’t do that to her. Now, a few of our mutual mates are saying I ought to simply decide one thing else to keep away from the drama.”
“However like… that is my precise child. She’s not even pregnant. Am I actually supposed to surrender a reputation simply because she may need it sooner or later?” she provides.
Commenters say completely not.
Wrote one: “You possibly can name dibs on the entrance seat or the final cookie… however I do not suppose you’ll be able to name dibs on a reputation. That’s infantile.”
Nonetheless others urged that, even when the ladies each have infants with the identical identify, it would not be an enormous deal.
“The buddy can nonetheless use the identify years down the road, certainly? There are individuals who have the identical identify on the market,” added one other Reddit consumer.
