DH and I have decided on a name we absolutely love.
The difficulty is that we would be naming our child after my late grandfather. When I told my mother we were considering this name, she looked very sad, and said 'there'll only ever be one person with that name for me'. She and her father had a difficult, intense relationship. They were very similar, and I think my mum has a lot of unresolved feelings about her father. My grandmother is still alive and I feel she would feel similarly strange were we to 'claim' the name.
It's an extremely unusual name, otherwise we would just go for it. I am very close to my mum, but am reconsidering other names to avoid opening a can of worms.
Am I being a pushover?
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getagoldtoof · 03/05/2014 16:25
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