Good intentions and bad timing have a long history of creating drama that you end up hearing about for years after.

A woman who learned her sister was pregnant channeled her excitement into a thoughtful book haul of parenting titles to prepare for the baby on the way.

What she didn’t realize was that her sister would spend the next two months treating it as a personal attack on her future parenting abilities.

The woman was confounded by this. She thought she was celebrating, but her sister heard something else entirely.

Two months later, the conversation is still happening and she doesn’t know how to make it stop.

Keep reading for the full story.

AITA (27f) for giving my sister (34f) a few parenting books?

It’s been about two months since this incident occurred, but I’m getting beyond sick of hearing about it.

My sister is 5 months along in her pregnancy.

She was over the moon for her sister and she wanted to support any way she could.

When she first told us, about two months ago, I was extremely excited.

My sister and I are not close, but we’ve always used books as the go-to gifts between us.

So she figured a book was the appropriate gift for this occasion too.

So I went out and bought a few parenting books as well as some toddler books for the nibling when she first told us.

I had absolutely no idea these gifts would go down like a lead balloon with my sister, and she’d still be bringing it up months later.

Apparently, her sister was mortally offended by this gift.

She’s said that “I’ve proven that I don’t respect her judgment” and that “I was just waiting to tell her how badly she’s going to screw up being a mom.”

I took the parenting books back and gave them to other friends or kept them for myself.

Now the woman is second-guessing herself.

I try not to let her comments bother me because she’s always melodramatic, but a few friends said that they wouldn’t have taken it well when they first became parents.

So AITA?

This seems a bit like an overreaction.

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What did Reddit have to say?

Maybe her pregnancy has more to do with her reaction than she’s letting on.

Many other expectant parents would have considered this a wonderful gift.

Who said parenting books are only for kids?

Pregnant or not, her sister was being a jerk.

This woman had every right to believe this was a great idea. She had already developed a book-giving tradition, so why should this occasion be any different?

One redditor said it best: it may just be that hormones and anxiety are to blame here. After all, giving birth and parenting are two very personal topics. Moving forward, maybe it’s better to just let her sister deal with them on her own terms.

Even still, her good intentions didn’t deserve to be squashed like this.

This won’t be the last time she gives a gift to her sister, and next time, she’ll be holding her breath for the reaction.