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[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

What do you do if you have had your heart set on a name for YEARS (since before you met your SO) and then your SO tells you that he doesn't like that name combo, and for no particular reason that he can name?

I LOVE the names Madeline Rose, or Mersea Rose (pronounced either Mer-say-ah or Mercy, since it was a made up name from my childhood). My SO, on the other hand, does not like them, and for no discernible reason.  He just says that he doesn't like them a whole lot. 

He has his heart set on naming a child after himself (so the child's name would be Boy Ryan Lastname) and after his father (Boy Patrick Lastname). Unfortunately I dislike the concept of naming children after your parents or any relatives.

Have you had a situation like that? How did you handle it?

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[sarahness.livejournal.com]

BOY? I thought Guy was bad enough....
No offense, it's just such an odd thing to name your boy Boy.
How about Girl for a girl? Heh...

I basically had to give up all of my favorite names when naming our daughter (he hated them all :[). We agreed on Amelia, which I now fully adore and wouldn't change for anything. I think you both will have to compromise when it comes to naming your children. And hopefully you'll end up adoring the name that you BOTH agree on. :)

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

LOL, we won't name our children Boy or Girl, we just have no idea what the first name will be, I put that in as a placeholder!

We like traditional names, so we are trying to work on compromises :)

[snoglobel.livejournal.com]

Haha, ok - Boy as a place holder is much better. Boy as a name just made me think of Boy George

[morningapproach.livejournal.com]

ugh, no way!! LOL.

[sarahness.livejournal.com]

oh, haha, i'm stupid. i blame pregnancy.