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My sister named her kids like my kids

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NewhereNL · 30/11/2022 13:49

Hi new poster here. I have 3 children. 1 girl and two boys.

Our eldest "Jordan" was born in January. My brother's wife gave birth to a boy in November the same year and named him Jordan. At that point, we didn't care too much because ours was a girl and theirs was a boy.

Then, we had baby n°2 Samuel , he was born in July then in June the next year my brother had his 2nd son and named him Sam ( Not exactly the same, but still)

My husband was super pissed off, and struggled to accept it. But my family found it so cute, that I just went with it.

Last year in December we welcomed our third baby and son Theodore. Yes, you guessed it. My sister-in-law gave birth to a baby boy 2 weeks ago and named him Theo.

My husband refuses to visit my family now. I asked my parents, don't you find it fucking weird??? They said no. It's cute. My husband finds it creepy and so do I.

I travelled alone to see the baby, and once her and I were alone I lost my shit. I told her something like this

" You and your fucking husband need to find a personality and stop copying us. You are a sick b*tch, what do you want from me?"

Then she went on to say " Well there's nothing you can do".

Now I keep receiving texts from my parents telling me how horrible I am, how I should we should be flattered.
This whole situation makes me feel so uneasy. My nephews are named like my kids !!!

What do you think? Should I just be happy about it?

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Irishfarmer · 05/12/2022 16:12

Very very odd!! My sis had a baby 2 weeks after me and we made sure the names were completely different (thankfully they were so no compromise needed).

What you said to her was too far I think though.

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