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MIL and how I hate her

214 replies

MrSSnoop · 26/06/2008 13:52

When MIL found out I was pregnant the first thing she asked was "what names do you have?". I told her we were not thinking about names until the baby was actually born and then we were looking to look at him or her and decide what suits.

MIL then said she'd always liked the name "Lucy" for a girl and "Liam" for a boy. I said that's nice but not names I would choose. She then went in a strop and said I was being rude about her names and she bets my names are crap.

DH took her side and said I was being rude but agreed that he didn't like her names either.

Anyway DD was born on the 14th and MIL instantly asked what we had called her. When we told her she was all up in arms saying it was a disgusting name for a child and if we went ahead and registered her as that MIL would continue to call her Lucy and tell everyone else that her name was Lucy too.

What annoys me even more is that DH is now starting to take her side and saying maybe we should change her name incase she gets picked on for it (although not to Lucy).

To add insult to injury my own mum has now admitted that she hates the name and my sister apparantly thought it was a joke.

Would you dig your heels in or compromise on the name? Everyone I've spoken to either pulls a face or outright admits that they don't like it. It makes me cross because even if I didn't like a name, I wouldn't say it to the parents.

OP posts:
Rainbowbubbles · 25/01/2011 14:30

This thread could cost me my job! I've pissed myself laughing so much i think everyone knows it can't be job related! Grin

agnethafaltskog · 25/01/2011 14:33

LyingWitch - the thread is from 2008 and was a clever wind-up Grin Thanks Reality for bumping it, it gave me a good laugh.

Plumm · 25/01/2011 14:43

NOt seen this one before - very funny! Was the OP a regular in disguise?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 27/04/2019 16:18

This thread could cost me my job! I've pissed myself laughing so much i think everyone knows it can't be job related!

Never a good way to behave in a mortuary.

MoaningMinniee · 27/04/2019 17:41

Thank you @Skettles for resurrecting this gem!

Circe32 · 27/04/2019 21:40

You're an idiot.
And that's child abuse.

Mummyamy123 · 27/04/2019 23:23

Slithery Anne 😂

ToeDust · 27/04/2019 23:44

I know this thread is an old one, but fuck me, it's hilarious. Fucking slithery 😂😂

PhilCornwall · 28/04/2019 06:17

Could you imagine the Christening, the Vic and 99% of the congregation would be pissing themselves!

FitMum87 · 28/04/2019 17:36

This has to be a joke Hmm
Poor child would be bullied and laughed at.

m00rfarm · 28/04/2019 17:36

READ THE DATE!

Fowles94 · 28/04/2019 17:44

You are obviously joking but you had me for a minute then 😂😂

aweedropofsancerre · 28/04/2019 17:45

ZOMBIE

MikeUniformMike · 28/04/2019 17:47

Slithery is a lovely name. I wish I'd used it for one of my DDs.

strawberrisc · 28/04/2019 17:54

I KNEW I should have called my DD 'Conehead'.

Lilybetsey · 28/04/2019 17:54

Now I’ve heard everything “Slithery”. This that’s GOT to be a windup... move over Khaleesi, Pocahontas and K-Cee. Stupidist name I have ever heard has a new winner !

PolarBearkshire · 28/04/2019 17:57

The name is awful . The poor kid will have to live with it

RomanyQueen1 · 28/04/2019 17:57

Poor child will get the piss taken out of it all right.
I never get why some parents give their kids a disadvantage from the off.

RomanyQueen1 · 28/04/2019 17:59

I wonder what happened to Slithery. Grin

nuxe1984 · 28/04/2019 18:04

Thanks for the replies. We knew from the off that we were going to call him or her something unusual as we dislike usual, normal names as they are just not individual. I like the red Indian kind of thing, to name a person after themselves. So we took one look at DD and called her Slithery because that's what she was at that time. Plus the name can be shortered to Sliths as she gets older or she can even change it herself if she wants to

WTAF?????

This poor child is going to get bullied. All new born babies look like that. Maybe you should have called it "Scrunchy" seeing as most babies come out a bit scrunched up when they're born. Or how about "Messy" as that's also true …

PS. It's not "red Indians" … it's Native Americans.

MulticolourMophead · 28/04/2019 18:06

READ THE DATE OF THE OP, PEOPLE.

Whatever name the OP gave her DD, the child will be looking at secondary school this September.

Lou12124 · 28/04/2019 18:10

I wouldn't change her name to what your MIL wants to keep her happy. No way! Its your child. However, slithery is definitely a name I've never heard of and may be better as a middle name? I would just worry what other children will call her when shes older. As a middle name it's not so bad as alot or people normally laugh at everyone's middle name because it's an old grandparents name or something like that.

Lou12124 · 28/04/2019 18:11

@MulticolourMophead

Haha I feel like a right tit now!!

Fishfingersandwichplease · 28/04/2019 18:13

Please don't call your baby girl Slithery. Pigeon would be ridiculous too but what about Paloma - am sure that is Spanish for Pigeon. Your child has to live with this name and l don't want to go all Katie Hopkins but you will be judged on her name. I am on team MIL!

Fishfingersandwichplease · 28/04/2019 18:14

Oh - old thread - only came up today. So what was the child called, do we know?