She’s Refusing To Give Her Instagram Handle To Her Brother-In-Law’s Fiancée, And Now Her Entire Family Has Turned Against Her
This twenty-five-year-old woman got married to her husband last year. And before that, she never really used social media much.
In fact, she would just go on her husband’s account whenever she wanted to scroll online.
But, after tying the knot, she decided to finally create an Instagram account and used the handle Mrs. [last name].
“Now, I have seventy-nine followers– consisting of friends, family, and coworkers– eleven posts, and I post some stories once in a while. I mostly use my account to watch reels and keep updated on my favorite celebrities,” she explained.
However, after her brother-in-law proposed to his fiancée, Tanya, her social media profile created a ton of drama. Well, more specifically, her account handle.
Basically, once her brother-in-law marries Tanya, she and Tanya will have the same last name. And while she was helping Tanya create her wedding registry last week, she realized that Tanya was gunning for her Instagram handle.
It all began when Tanya proposed that she give away the Mrs. [last name] account handle as her wedding gift.
Apparently, Tanya claimed that it would mean a lot to her– but she did not really want to give up the name.
So, she suggested that Tanya just add an underscore, a period, or even numbers to the Instagram handle. However, Tanya apparently commented how that would just ruin the “username aesthetic” and that she would never use it.
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“I was so confused at that point, and I told her that I didn’t understand why I had to do that,” she recalled.
But then, the truth finally came out. Apparently, Tanya does not think she “deserves” that account handle because she has a private account that she barely uses.
Tanya, on the other hand, revealed how she had ten thousand followers and posted a lot of “beautiful pictures” that got a ton of likes.
“Tanya also said she deserves the last name more because she was in the family for a longer time– they were childhood friends and high school sweethearts– and they got engaged sooner than me because I dated my husband for five years,” she said.
Honestly, though, she did not care about any of this. So, she just tried to focus on calming Tanya down and reiterating how she had already offered a ton of username solutions.
Tanya would not hear it, though. Instead, Tanya just encouraged her to switch her username to an underscore or period. Plus, she learned that Tanya had already reserved the Mrs. [last name] account handle on practically every other social media site. So, aside from Instagram, she could not use it anymore.
Anyway, she started to get pretty pissed off at Tanya– especially after Tanya started becoming aggressive and demanding she gave up the handle.
So after a while, she just called Tanya’s behavior childish and shallow before refusing to hand over the Instagram username for a final time.
Ever since then, though, her family has been reaming her out for her decision. Everyone, from her in-laws to her friends, is claiming that she ruined Tanya’s “most special day.”
Plus, her family even gave her a ridiculous ultimatum. They claim that if she does not hand over the username to Tanya, she and her husband will be uninvited from the wedding.
So basically, she has been put in an impossible situation. Her husband was supposed to be his brother’s best man– a role that he would not be able to fulfill if they were uninvited from the wedding. And she does not want such a petty argument to impact her husband in a real way.
At the same time, though, she thinks that Tanya’s behavior has been totally bizarre and believes that she has a right to say no.
Do you think Tanya had a right to expect her Instagram handle? Do you believe she is justified in saying no? If you were in her shoes, would you have given the Instagram username away?
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