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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think you really need to look at this as a disagreement between you and your DH, and leave your ILs out of it. If your DH is in agreement with you, then his parents are for him to figure out.

You say your DH wants to follow this tradition, and it's cultural (not just a thing his family does). Since you are clearly from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds, how have you done it in the past? What kinds of compromises have you made? Personally, if it were me (and, as it stands, I'm the member of my marriage with more cultural traditions), I'd ask DH why this tradition was important to him and what meaning it has for him. DH does this kind of thing for me all the time. If his reasons make sense, I think the suggestion to have your kid go by their middle name makes sense.

FWIW, DH didn't like my favorite first name for DS, and so we made that name his middle name. So, I've done some name compromising before. In the end, it feels right. I'm just more likely to call DS by first + middle.[/quote]

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