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To be annoyed that MIL is restricting name choice

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ReshapeWhileDamp · 21/08/2010 09:19

By the way she's already made it clear she doesn't like certain names? I know, I know, I am probably BU - if we like the name, we go ahead and use it anyway, right? Or can we?

We are expecting DC2 and just found out that it's another boy. Grin We had a nightmare thinking of a boy's name we both liked before (we had a shortlist of two, and since then I've gone off the one we didn't use!). DH and I started brainstorming names and discovered we both, unexpectedly, liked the name Arthur. It's the first name we both agreed we liked, this time round.

Anyway, PIL are kindly staying here this week while we go house-hunting, and as soon as we told them it's another boy, my MIL started the Names Discussion. We said that we didn't want to discuss names with family this time, because it didn't help. Grin

MIL promptly said 'Well, ok then, as long as you're not calling him Arthur. I really don't like that name'. Angry Bad luck really, but she managed to hit on the one name we like so far! (It's never been mentioned to her before, I have no idea how she hit on that one.) Couldn't she have kept it to herself? If we showed her a brand-new baby called Arthur, I bet she wouldn't have reservations, because she'd associate the name with cute new baby, etc.

So now I feel pissed off that we can't continue to think of that as our favourite name, because she's already made it clear she hates it. If we name DS2 Arthur she's going to take it as a slap in the face, maybe deliberate. (She can be very unreasonable herself.) If we don't, then we're going against our own wishes. We shouldn't have to consider her tastes! But now the genii's out of the bottle, I sort of feel like we have to. Sad

WWYD?

OP posts:
buzzin · 22/08/2010 12:05

Your baby, your choice. Love the baby - will love the name in time. You may find, as we did, another name becomes more dominant than the one you've chosen, so I'd just let it be for now, you may be worrying over nothing. I do find it strange that they randomly picked out the name Arthur, what are the odds of that!

diddl · 22/08/2010 16:04

TakeLovingChances-Juliet is lovely!

We never discussed names with families.

If they asked we just said we hadn´t thought of any.

We had, of course, & when our son was born-we told everyone the name.

Mum said she didn´t like it-& I think she even thought that we would change it!Hmm

TakeLovingChances · 23/08/2010 06:23

I know Juliet is a lovely name! My mum said Juliet and Julia were horrible, but Julie was ok Hmm I don't understand my mum a lot of the time.

OP - sorry for hijack!

Ineedsomesleep · 23/08/2010 06:45

Just tell her you've chosen the name and its Adolf.

She will be happy with any name after that one. Grin

traceybath · 23/08/2010 06:52

Names are so personal and people can be so rude about them as you see all the time on mn.

I love the name arthur - its ds2's name and I've had lots of positive comments on it.

But anyway - seems like your DH has decided he doesn't like it after all.

I do like the idea though of presenting the name your really like and a really silly name to your mil.

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