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AIBU?

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Yep, it's a MIL one...

78 replies

Incoganito · 24/04/2017 20:43

Name-changed for this as, to be honest, I don't think I'm going to come out of it well Blush - but I have to ask...

After much thought and deliberation, DH and I named DS 'Jake' (names have been changed to protect the innocent). MIL insists on calling him 'Jakey', which I find incredibly irritating (DH doesn't really care, but is trying to support me!). We have asked her nicely not to refer to DS as such, but rather than backing down and just mumbling something about having a miserable DIL, she's pushing back, wanting to know WHY she can't call him that, he's her DGS, etc.

I completely get that in the course of his life, DS will probably pick up all sorts of nicknames and I will have zero control over it, but for now he's not even a year old! But - before you tar me completely with the 'one of those mums' brush - it's 'Jakey' in particular I cannot stand; we've said to MIL she is welcome to call him whatever other pet name she bloody well wants. Also, I know another baby who's actually called 'Jakey' - as per birth certificate, not just a nickname. So to me it's a different name altogether. Like if I called my child Bob, but MIL insists on referring to him as Dave Hmm If DS wants to go by 'Jakey' in future and sound like an utter twat then I will absolutely suck it up and cope.

So, AIBU or is MIL?

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OP posts:
Enidblyton1 · 24/04/2017 23:17

Time to give Mil an amusing granny nickname perhaps?!

WildKiwi · 24/04/2017 23:28

Could be worse. My DS keeps getting accidentally called by his cousins nickname. Too many grandkids in this family Grin

emmyrose2000 · 24/04/2017 23:46

YANBU

It's extremely disrespectful and rude to change someone's name the way MAIL has been.

My kids have names that can be shortened. They each had someone try it once when they were babies and I immediately corrected the rude people and stated plainly that their name was FullVersion. Never happened again.

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