“She Never Calls Him Alexander Or Alex”: Mother-In-Law Continues To Call Son “Sherman” Even After Being Told Off, Family Drama Ensues

In our culture, the name is a very important component of a person’s identity. According to psychologists, the name itself has a certain effect, which is in some way determined by the very fact of its existence. For example, if your name is Felix, then most likely you will be a happy and optimistic person, and if your name is Adolf, then you will most likely be a pessimist. Moreover, a person’s name becomes very important when it is given by someone else. There are many cases in which a person receives their name from their parents-in-law, grandparents, godparents, or other relatives. Of course, this is done out of pure goodwill, but it often happens that the new parents are very attached to their own choice of name for their child, and if someone else tries to impose their own name ideas, then the family situation may become quite tense. For example, it happened with this new dad, whose post on the AITA Reddit community got about 5.4K upvotes and more than 1.8K different comments. Interestingly, the author of the post, a father to a newborn boy, also wanted to protect his own idea of the baby’s name, but at the same time, he did not expect such a strong reaction from his own mother-in-law.