my SIL is unhinged

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are doing her future child a favor. No human should be named after a famous suicidal teenager.

+1
Ignore the email.

+2

Ophelia is one of those names that you just can't use for an actual human person. It's a nice name, but you just can't do it.

[Anonymous]

My parents adopted a dog with my name. A friend adopted a dog with her husband's name. Seriously, only the crazy have time to worry about this. Ignore the email. And, like one Pp mentioned, you are performing a service to any potential future child of hers. Ophelia? C'mon.

[Anonymous]

My father named me after his ex wife.

Now that's weird.

A cat with the same name as a kid? No big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are doing her future child a favor. No human should be named after a famous suicidal teenager.

+1
Ignore the email.

+2

Ophelia is one of those names that you just can't use for an actual human person. It's a nice name, but you just can't do it.

I'm the OP, and I'm not going to answer the email. But, yes, Ophelia is a cat name, not a people name! Also, I'm hormonal from recently having a baby, which I gave a PEOPLE NAME. The kitten got a name that was NOT on my list of possibilities for dd.

Anyway, my dh's two friends from home and their wives visited last year, and the wives and I were talking about baby girl names. They both mentioned "Mathilda" as a pretty name! One of them also liked "Clementine", and they didn't know (about) the song. They liked some other names that sound silly/weird to me, but which are apparently quite acceptable and even trendy in the UK, so maybe Ophelia isn't a weird choice by SIL. But even though this is silly, I wouldn't have named my kitten my SIL's secret baby name if I had known...and I now agree with DH that she is "odd."

[Anonymous]

I would reply we only used that name for the birth certificate. We'll address the feline as that damn cat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are doing her future child a favor. No human should be named after a famous suicidal teenager.

My thoughts exactly!

[Anonymous]

Aspergers isn't a mental disability? Uh, yes it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aspergers isn't a mental disability? Uh, yes it is.

You're an ass. It is part of the autism spectrum, and therefore a neurodevelopmental disorder. It is neither a mental disorder nor mental illness, and thus not part of psychopathology.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My son has the same name as my Uncle and Aunt's dog. My father also has the same name. At family gatherings we just call them Big X, Little X, and Dog X. I think it's funny. For the record, they adopted the dog and it already had the name, but no one expected them to change it. It's a dog.

I like your family's style! That's hilarious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Change the cats name...

To your SIL name.

Come sit next to me, PP. I like your style!

--at the mean girls table.

[Anonymous]

Maybe she was just really wasted, and not unhinged.

[Anonymous]

Roald Dahl named his daughter Ophelia. She is now the president and executive director of Partners in Health, a pretty awesome organization. Which is just to say, Ophelia is a perfectly fine name, even if it's not to your taste.

And definitely don't change your kitten's name.

[Anonymous]

I think your SIL should have sent the request to her brother. It's odd that she sent it to you - is it specifically your cat & not jointly the family cat with your husband? When my ILs have crazy requests, I tell them that DH runs point on that - gotta divide & conquer to keep the house running, you know? Now, if they have thoughts on the Thanksgiving menu, that's something I can help them with.

But that said, I'd probably at least consider SIL's request. Doesn't seem like that big a deal to me, so if it meant so much to her, then I'd think about it.

[Anonymous]

When people don't remain close to family after leaving the house, there is usually a reason. Bet your husband isn't the nice guy you think he is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aspergers isn't a mental disability? Uh, yes it is.

You are ignorant, and more than a little bitchy.