Some parents just need to BACK OFF.

If you know, you know…know what I’m saying?

This woman’s mom finally learned a lesson but it took her learning a valuable lesson to get there.

Check out what happened in this story from Reddit.

Teaching my mother a lesson.

“My mother is extremely dramatic and emotionally manipulative.

Out of her three children, I (42f) am the only one who still speaks to her.

Just an FYI…

She’s also very particular about her name. She abhors anyone shortening or messing around with her name. Christine.

Anyone who calls or Chris, or Chrissy, anything like that is subjected to a tongue lashing and mild hysterics.

I have a son (4) who she often claims as her favourite (she has three other grandsons, so I don’t like it that she does this) and am pregnant with my second child.

I talked to my mother about our name choices (Ash or Morgan) and she told me she didn’t like them and tried to persuade us to choose something else.

I named our first child and it’s important to my husband that he names the next one so I’d like to let him even if they’re not my favourite names.

I don’t think grandparents get a choice.

So my mother told me outright that if we choose these names she won’t use them and will pick a name of her own to call the baby and will only refer to him by her choice of name.

Here’s the deal, Mom…

So I lost my patience.

I told her that if she wanted to do that she’d face two consequences. 1) She’ll likely never get to speak to the new child. 2) I will teach both of my kids to call her Grandma Chrissy.

She’s never mentioned names since!”

Reddit users shared their thoughts.

This reader nailed it.

Another person shared their thoughts.

This person had a story to tell.

Another individual chimed in.

And this Reddit user was impressed.

I think her mom learned her lesson…

One would hope, anyway.

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