Hubby now says he wants a "jr" if it's a boy! - Page 2

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

I went through similar but instead of Jr. ds would have been the 3rd. At any rate it wasnt happening. Dh is a Jr and his name does NOT suit him at all. It suits his dad just fine but when I look at dh I do not see him as that name. I dont even call him by his name he is babe to me and when I talk to others about him it feels so wrong to call him by his given name.

[philomom]

Originally Posted by WifeofAnt

Oh, and argument I heard a while back. The thought of calling out your DH/son's name during sex... *shiver*

That does give me the creeps. I'm definitely one to whisper/shout and croon my dh's name .....

[Smokering]

Eugh. The very concept riles me. It's a "let another's lips praise you, and not your own" issue to me. Having a baby named after you should be an unexpected tribute by someone else due to your great personal awesomeness... not something you get to decide yourself to do because you get a kick out of it. It seems to me to be along the same continuum as making a Wikipedia page about yourself. If you're worthy, someone else will do it for you... if they don't, you're probably less awesome than you think.

Also, yes, MIGHTY practical issues.

And it peeves me that 99% of the time it's men who want Jrs, not women (Gilmore Girls aside!).

DD does have the same middle name as me, but only because a) it's been a family name for 4 generations - five now! - and b) I like it a lot. In fact, if it weren't a family name I might have used it for a first name. Also, DH didn't mind. If this baby's a boy I wouldn't mind using my father's first name as a middle name (David), but... he'd never ASK me to do that. I was a bit offended when FIL jokingly suggested we use his first name.

[jessica_s]

My DH is a Jr and really doesn't like it. In fact he hated it until his Dad passed away and now he doesn't mind it so much but he still didn't even consider or want in the slightest to make our son the third.
The paperwork for him is often really a pain. If it doesn't say Jr on the end (which half of the time it doesn't get tacked on) it's not him. So he has had a lot of trouble with paperwork and legal documents.

[JFTB1177]

Originally Posted by Smokering

Eugh. The very concept riles me. It's a "let another's lips praise you, and not your own" issue to me. Having a baby named after you should be an unexpected tribute by someone else due to your great personal awesomeness... not something you get to decide yourself to do because you get a kick out of it. It seems to me to be along the same continuum as making a Wikipedia page about yourself. If you're worthy, someone else will do it for you... if they don't, you're probably less awesome than you think.

[jennifercp8]

My DS is a Jr, and while it isn't something I wanted, it's working out ok. DH's name is James, and so we call DS Jamie. I only have to use DS's full name on things like medical records, so we use his nickname for everything else. I also love that I can give DS all of DH's junk mail, and he thinks it's for him.

[pregnant@40]

I'm firm w/ my DH that our second boy will not be the 4th (of also a very common name), no matter what. He will already have my husband's last name, and for me that's enough. Our first has his own first name, and I agree, a subsequent child shouldn't have the exact same name as the dad.

In our house, we each have veto power over name choices. I veto "the 4th", and he has vetoed a lot of names that I would have loved. But so it goes. Finally we found a name we can agree on...

[Lauren82]

Ergh. I am going through this with my DH too. First he tried to talk me into a jr with his name and I said no way. Then he tried to talk me into naming it after my FIL. The big problem for me (besides wanting the child to have it's own identity) is that both names are stereotypical "nerd" names.