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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Spelling Failures That Really Missed The Mark

Spelling is a hard thing to do. There are just so many goddamn words to remember, and all of them are spelled differently. If there were like, 250 words, then we might have better odds. Sure, sentences might end up looking like something out of 1984, but that's double plus good by us. We gotta get rid of all this poetry and junk. No more verbs. See how things look then. Get rid of some nouns. All of a sudden the sentence "Let's go get some coffee" becomes "we the hot brown now." Perfect. Simple. Easy to remember. Sure, it would tank the collective human spirit and disable our ability to articulate anything of substantive meaning, but at least people wouldn't mistakenly sound so dumb all the time. We'd sound stupid on purpose. It's not better, but it's a change.

For more times people mangled the English language, here are some spelling failures that really shift the bed.

Daughter Hides Camera in Divorced Dad's Office to Spy For Her Mother

This wife discovered a camera hidden in her husband's office and immediately suspected her unruly stepdaughter, who had been turned against her father and his new wife by her mother. The daughter had previously lived with them until several incidents that resulted in damage, including setting an "accidental" fire in the kitchen. The wife explains that her husband's ex-wife.

When the wife confronted her stepdaughter about the camera, it was revealed that she had placed it there on behalf of her mother. Somehow the daughter convinced her stepmother not to tell her father, but the stepmother is still considering revealing this to her husband.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the stepmother/wife who posted the topic to see whether or not it was wrong for her to say something to her husband.

Confused commenters replied that they were surprised that she hadn't told him already, stating that she would be the a-hole if she didn't tell him and deal with this invasive and illegal violation of privacy. 

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Scary Signs That Aren't Messing Around

On any given day, we're only exposed to the "normal" hazards. Stuff like slipping and falling on stairs, getting burned by various appliances, and getting our feelings hurt by Debra. But this world isn't just a pile of household hazards and emotional turmoil, it's also a place where you can get stung by thousands of bees, dissolved in acid, and liquified by a series of grinding implements. Also asploded. Don't forget asploded. 

All of these unconventional hazards are highly cartoonish in their own ways. This makes them seem like they're out of the realm of possibility, and honestly that makes them even more dangerous. It's a lot easier to get liquified when you don't believe the liquification machine can "get you." So for that very purpose we have terrifying signs that aren't messing around. They might be scary to read, but we've gotta admit that they're necessary. Thanks signs. Good job.

Dad Disowns Son After He Discovers He's Not Actually His, Wonders Why Son is Upset

What is with the number of threads like this lately? In the last day alone we have seen two threads where fathers have discovered that they are not actually the biological parent of their children. Only discovering the affairs years later when the kids are teenagers or adults. 

The other thread, also posted this week was one where the father's children disowned him for their biological father after the truth was revealed. 

In this thread, rather than being posted by one of the children, it has been posted by the father who is harboring obvious resentment for his child who was born from the affair. 

He had previously considered and raised his sixteen-year-old as his own before discovering that the boy was the product of an affair his wife had been having. He left after the discovery and refused to speak to the boy for two years. 

Now, the father is taking it personally that the boy will not come to visit him. After cutting off contact for two years he has moved back into the city and demanded that his son come to visit him, threatening financial retribution if he refuses to do so.

This thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the father, u/Worried_papa_1762, who has posted the thread in order to see if he is in the wrong for his actions towards his child. 

Although he is specifically about his actions regarding the college fund commenters have not hesitated to weigh in with their opinion on the entire ordeal. Commenters have brutally roasted the father for not being there for his son and leaving a young teenager hurt, confused and now without a future. 

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Adult Children Disown Man Who Raised Them After They Discover Mother's Adultery, One Stands By Him

This family was torn asunder once it was revealed that the mother had participated in multiple long-standing affairs (with two brothers nonetheless) that had resulted in the pregnancies of each of her three children. No one in the family knew of the affairs or that the bio-fathers of the children were someone other than her husband. The truth was shocking and brought the family apart in a great schism. 

The thread was posted to Reddit's r/AITA (Am I the A-Hole) subreddit by the concerned daughter who has decided to stick by her father's side despite the tragedy and controversy that is tearing their family apart. She has uninvited the two people who were raised as her brother and sister from her wedding after they completely disowned their father after finding out about their lack of biological relation.

She posted the thread to see if she was in the wrong for uninviting these people and appealed to readers to give their opinion.

What's your take? Who is in the wrong here?

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White Woman Gets Hate On Tiktok For Dancing Hula At Her Wedding; Gets Accused Of Cultural Appropriation

You certainly cannot please everybody