Settling on names... without your partner.

[velkoria.livejournal.com]

Has any of you settled on a name you LOVE and WILL use regardless of your partner?

I know I have a girl's name I am not budging on (unless you know, my partner tells me that his mother was killed by someone of that name) but the boy's name I am open to changing when and if I have a boy. I've loved this name since I was 12 though and I've had several recurring dreams of my daughter being named this, not to mention they are family names.... 

So yeah, any of you have experience with this??

Comments

[sunshinelucy.livejournal.com]

I have had my favourite boy name securely in place since I was 8 years old (and I'm 24 now). It my be my all-time favourite and the only name I can imagine definitely using, but I am well aware my partner may not like it at all... or that he may have a name he feels equally passionate about that I dislike.
No matter how much I may love a name and how long I have mentally decided on it, my partner's opinion still matters in the decision and I will not use something one of us dislikes. If we both hate each others' favourites, we'll keep looking. There are so many names out there, and while neither of us might get to use our individual first choices, I have faith that we'd be able to compromise and find our first-choice-as-a-couple name.

[iam-katie.livejournal.com]

You nailed it! For me atleast!