Posts by Arthur Fisher42

Justin Allen81 said:Oh, and I totally forgot to mention this.

The name.
THE NAME.
Jesus, the drama surrounding a simple name is unreal.
"Do you really have to call him that?"
"They’re just going to call him ________ (insert two or three terrible nicknames here)."
"Mark asked if you could please reconsider the name one more time..."
"Well, there are plenty of other lovely names out there... just not this one..."

I’m honestly confused—where in the sentence "He will be called ____" did anyone see the question, "Hey, what are your thoughts on this name, and if you dislike it, what would you suggest instead?"

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Edit: It's a normal name. It's not like they named him Hospice.

Charlie Chaplin, I second your entire previous post; I actually had a good laugh because it was so spot-on and true to life! As for the name situation, we handled it this way—we told everyone, dead serious, that the little guy would be named Barnabas, and if they thought that was too long, they could always shorten it to Barna. You should have seen their faces! When we finally admitted we were joking a few minutes later, almost any other name was fine, even Duke 👏

Honestly, I fail to see why people feel the need to comment on things that are completely beyond anyone's control, such as a child's gender. I even told my mother-in-law that I was hoping for a boy, given how many nephews I have and how much I've grown accustomed to them, yet she stubbornly insisted on her own opinion regardless. At the end of the day, I simply don't care what those women wanted!

So far, the only person who has managed to get under my skin is my mother-in-law, though "annoyed" feels too mild—she actually left me feeling quite disheartened. She came to visit me once in the last five months, and since her own daughter has already given her two grandkids, she had the audacity to tell me she’d much rather I were carrying a girl. Look, she’s entitled to her own wishes, but there was absolutely no reason to say that to my face. It implies that my son isn't special in any way because he's just her third grandchild, whereas to me, he is everything as my firstborn. I find such a comment to be entirely unnecessary and rude.