to think my Ex has been FULLY WEIRD with his new puppy's name?

[SundaeGirl]

We broke up about 10 years ago, and the break-up was horrible, both very sad, but lucky for me I met DH . He met a girl but called off the engagement and has just had on/off things since.

We had a dog and both me & ex adored it. When we broke up I got the dog. The dog has a very unusual name - think Barabas or GodSpeedulus or similar Randominus.

Anyway, just seen on Facebook that he's bought a new puppy, same breed - and called it the same name.

Totally, utterly weird.

AIBU to think this is just too weird?

Maybe he just misses his dog.

easy for you to say, you got the dog. He didn't. And there is nothing weird about it.

Couldn't he at least have waited til Randominus the First was no more?

Naming different generations of people is different. They're people. They have vastly different lives. Dogs don't have quite as much to set them apart. And they don't love very long so in your lifetime you could have many dogs. How would you easily tell them all apart? Especially if they're the same breed of dog. I find it utterly bizarre.

Randiminus the first is over ten years old now, right? Maybe he thought the original might not be around too much longer. Either way, I don't think it's all that weird, if he really loved the dog. If he's named his new dog after a dog he had hated, that would be weird.

They used to do this with babies, back in the days of high infant mortality. If you named your pfb Thomas and then he died, the next DS to be born might be named Thomas. You might even get three Thomases in one family.

Several times in my family tree parents have had a child named (say) James, who's died in infancy, and have then named the next baby James as well.

I will freely admit that that strikes me as weird. But it happened often enough that it can't have been seen as that odd at the time.

Doing it for a dog is no more strange IMO (OK, so the dog isn't lost, but is lost to him). Maybe the new dog reminded him of Randominus I in terms of personality?

Just got a message from a mutual friend saying her DH had a frank chat with Ex and thinks he may have sown seeds of doubt re name. Friend's DH is no big fan of mine (much closer to Ex) so he must think it looks publicly weird too.

I think it's weird OP. Or maybe he's just in chronic need of a bit of imagination.

Was going to say same as squoosh. Sounds like lack of imagination, is all. Fairly typically blokey thing to do, no?