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Yahoo
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
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Woman offers pregnant sister hundreds of dollars to not use dream baby name
Sometimes, sisters don't want to share everything — especially baby names. In a recent post shared to the popular 'Am I The Asshole?' Reddit forum, a 30-year-old woman questioned if she was in the wrong for asking her sibling, who's about to have a baby, not to use her 'dream baby name.' The woman's sister, 27, is eight months pregnant with a baby girl. The Reddit user explained that while it's her dream to have children, she's not sure if she can carry them due to fertility issues. She was recently talking about baby names with her sister, who 'proudly said they chose' the name Isla for her baby girl because it's 'unique and special.' However, the 30-year-old said that she'd always wanted to name her child Isla, which her sister knew. 'I have been saying this since I was a teenager. Everyone in our family knows this,' she explained. 'So when she told me her name choice, I told her that she cannot use it because it has been my dream name forever. I explained that if she uses it, she will ruin my future experience if I ever get pregnant.' While the pregnant woman laughed at this conversation, she later realized her sister was being serious. The soon-to-be mother then told her older sibling: 'You might never have kids. I am literally about to give birth,' which the Reddit user thought was a 'cruel' comment. The 30-year-old also told her sibling that if she cared about her, she'd pick a different name. But the mother-to-be is firm on naming her child Isla, which has caused a divide between the family. However, the older sibling still wanted the name for her baby one day, so she offered to pay her sister a hefty sum to pick a different moniker. 'My parents think she should keep her name because she is the one having the baby, but some cousins agree with me that it is messed up for her to take the name she knows I have wanted for years,' the post continued. 'I even offered to pay her $500 to pick something else. She said I am being controlling and weird. She posted about it on Facebook, and now I am getting hate from strangers calling me unhinged.' In an update to her post, after receiving a lot of criticism in the comments, the Reddit user doubled down on wanting to keep the baby name for her future child. 'People saying 'you don't own a name' — technically true, but morally, I think family should respect each other's wishes. Second, things have escalated,' she wrote. 'My sister posted screenshots of our private messages on Facebook, calling me 'toxic' and 'controlling,' and now half the family is gossiping.' She said that if her sibling uses the baby name, she wouldn't be there when the soon-to-be-parent has a baby shower or even gives birth. The woman's sister 'laughed in [her] face' about this remark. However, the Reddit user said that she'll still name her daughter Isla, even if her sister uses that name for her soon-to-be-born baby. While the pregnant woman called this 'psychotic,' her older sister 'said it's called consistency.' The 30-year-old added that she's taking the next steps to have a child, explaining she's booked her first IVF consultation. She also noted that her fiancé agrees with her in this situation with her family, and he's even urging her to announce the baby name now on Instagram as one 'reserved for [their] daughter.' Many Reddit users in the comments encouraged the woman to let her pregnant sister use the name Isla for her baby. 'When you get pregnant, find a new, wonderful name you can use. Would I do what your sister did? No. It's hurtful. But you're making yourself look bad by throwing a fit about this,' a stranger wrote. 'Let it go and focus on your own life. When you eventually get pregnant, you'll have a wonderful experience regardless.' 'What your sister said was thoughtless and unkind, but you can't put 'dibs' on a name. Plus, there's nothing to stop you from calling your daughter Isla as well, or maybe changing it to something similar, e.g. Isla-Marie,' another wrote. 'I also think it's poor form that your sister has put it on Facebook. It is something that should be dealt with privately.' Solve the daily Crossword
Washington Post
19-07-2025
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Times
18-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Estate review — a sweaty drama about family and the Westminster bubble
Two plays are running side by side here and neither of them really works. At the centre of both is Adeel Akhtar's convincingly harassed shadow minister, Angad, a none too charismatic figure who launches a campaign for the leadership (it's not clear which party he belongs to) in scenes that have more than a hint of The Thick of It. First there is Angad's political drama: as well as manoeuvring himself into place he has to fight off a bizarrely unconvincing sex scandal deriving from his time at Harrow. Then there is a family conflict: he also finds himself at odds with his two sisters after the death of their domineering father, a former baggage handler who rose in the world as a dodgy landlord and has now left the two women out of his will. Should Angad seek a compromise or will he throw his principles aside and take everything for himself and his elegant, pregnant wife Sangeeta (Dinita Gohil)? You can admire the ambition of this 2020 debut play by Shaan Sahota, an Oxford-educated Southall doctor who laid out her social credentials in Under the Mask, a 2021 audio drama, based on her experience working in an intensive care ward during Covid. But because she never quite seems in control of her material, we're left with some jarring changes in tone. Her script does, though, deliver some sharp asides on the narrow social background of the Westminster class; the programme notes even include a list of the characters' schools and universities. 'I think you need to leave Zone 2,' is the advice given to Angad's brittle, ultra-privileged aide Petra (Helena Wilson). Sadly, Daniel Raggett's hectic production can't compensate for the wild implausibilities in the storyline and while Angad has all the makings of a man of straw, there are some uneven performances elsewhere. At the funeral service for his father at a gurdwara, our hero nervously keeps counts of how many senior politicos are making an appearance. Petra, never far from her phone, becomes a sort of Lady Macbeth. Meanwhile, Humphrey Ker wins well-deserved laughs as the overbearing chief whip Ralph, who has been looking down on Angad — literally and metaphorically — since their school days. The dialogue is often crude and sweaty. Confronted by his outraged sisters, Gyan and Malicka (Thusitha Jayasundera and Shelley Conn), Angad insists he respects women's rights by shouting: 'I do the laundry. I go down on my wife.' Does anyone speak like that outside an HBO series? Chloe Lamford's set design slides from Angad's cramped office to the airbrushed living room that he shares with Sangeeta. In the climactic scenes, mayhem erupts at a party conference, the action spilling into the Dorfman's stalls, just as it did in that other heavy-handed political satire, All of Us. The shouting and the fighting are as synthetic as the soundbites. ★★☆☆☆ 140min Dorfman, National Theatre, London, to Aug 23,
Washington Post
17-07-2025
- Washington Post
Asking Eric: Family pressures sister to ignore siblings' crimes
Dear Eric: My parents recently died a few months apart. While taking care of my mom's last wishes, my sister told me that she went to prison for human trafficking years ago. She wasn't sorry for it in any way and defended her actions. She may as well have told me she was a serial killer. I can't even look at her now.
