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[quote=Anonymous]My maternal grandmother decided she hated the name my parents gave me and would not only call me something else, but would also repeatedly let me know she thought my name was "stupid." It was brutal. As you can imagine, she and my mother had a very strained relationship long before this. I never really developed a relationship with her, because who like to be told their name is stupid? I didn't see her, my choice, the last 5 years of her life. I didn't even attend her funeral.

OP, I also named my son Theodore and we call him Theo. DH dislikes Ted and Teddy. His mother also tried this whole assert dominance by calling baby Teddy. DH shut that down fast. She still "slips up" and we still say "His name is Theo. Don't call him Teddy." And then we pull back for a bit. (Bluntly, I'm not sure she's bright enough to connect the two, but I'm always happy when I can go a few months without her in our lives). I feel you. It sucks. I don't know what's up with these grandmothers. They got to name their kids. If they were spineless doormat and too timid to insist their children be called the correct names, that's on them. They don't get to continue the dysfunction and demand that we just shut up and deal with it.[/quote]

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