Avalanche?!!!?!

[silver05.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend is being agonizingly serious about naming his first-born son Avalanche. It seems silly now, and it makes me laugh, but at the same time I'm worried about any future son we may have together. Any calls to attention that this is a ridiculously stupid name causes him to reply:

1) that while it will get him beaten up on the playground and teased in school, he'll grow up tough
2) it's such a cool name
3) that if it gets to the point that we're married and I give birth to his son, and I'm lying there, exhausted and "pretty" and they come in and bring in this little baby boy and he looks at that baby and says, "Avalanche," then he must be pretty serious about it.

So far I've gotten him to agree to Avalanche Joseph so I can call him AJ.

These are the names I'd prefer:

Joseph (a family name)
Samuel (after the prophet)
Berwick (again, a family name, we would call him Berck for short)

I talked this over with my Mom, and she suggested either breaking up with him, putting my foot down about it, or naming him one of my chosen names and letting Avalanche be his father's pet name for his son.

What do you guys girls think?

Comments

[silver05.livejournal.com]

23, almost 24

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

Well, my 22 year old boyfriend thinks it would be cool to name a son after Idi Amin (the WHOLE thing, even the "Last King of Scotland" bit) but I think you just have to put your foot down, because its not a name, it's not even a pretty word.
And if he thinks the teasing will make him grow up to be "tough" he obviously isn't aware of the damage that bullying can cause...

Breaking up with him over it though, especially when kids aren't in your immediate future, is kinda silly (and it sounds like you agree). Someone said something about getting him a dog. Sounds like a good idea!

[mystickiwi.livejournal.com]

There were two boys at my school who were literally destroyed by bullying before they even reached the sixth grade.

maybe it's because i'm an idealist, but i think you can learn those things WITHOUT resorting to bullying. To say that anything good can come of it blows my mind. And I think theres difference between being mean/being tough on someone, and bullying them.

[silver05.livejournal.com]

Childhood is cruelty and learning to live with what you don't want. You don't need to add to it.