Mom Upset Her Father-in-Law Won't Stop Calling Her Baby 'Goblin'
A woman says her father-in-law has taken to calling her baby "goblin" – and she doesn't like it
But when she requested he not call the child that, she was the one accused of being "dramatic"
Now, the internet is weighing inA woman says she's being accused of being "dramatic" after she told her father-in-law not to call her baby "Goblin."
The woman describes the situation in a Reddit post titled, "Apparently saying 'don't call my baby Goblin' makes me dramatic."
The woman writes that she was recently at her in-laws when her father-in-law "randomly decided to start calling my baby 'Goblin.' "
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"He repeated it several times like it was a cute, normal nickname," she writes. "I calmly asked, 'What did you say?' to make sure I heard it correctly. He repeated, 'Goblin.' I then replied, 'Their name is xxxx. You can call them that.' "
She continues: "Then to provoke me he repeated again 'Goblin.' Cue the dramatics from mother-in-law and brother-in-law. 'Goblin doesn't mean anything.' I answered that 'I know what a goblin is do you know what a goblin is?' They said, 'Yes but he means it affectionately.' "
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"They completely dismissed my boundary and reframed me as the problem. They acted like I was the one making things awkward for not wanting my child called the name of a grotesque fairytale," she adds.
The woman writes that her in-laws "can't stand being corrected," yet she is always the one who appears to be the bad guy.
"When I didn't laugh along, suddenly I'm the uptight one ruining the fun," she writes.
Others on Reddit are weighing in, with one commenter writing, "Ok first of all, if it was somehow 'dramatic,' the one time you should be given a bit of grace is when it comes to your baby. And quite frankly, it's more dramatic to fight about a nickname for someone else's kid. Are they really that bored that a nickname is their only fun? "
Adds another: "The content doesn't really matter, you asked them to stop doing something and they acted like sulky children. They'll push like this because they have a hard time giving up control, keep doing what you're doing."
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