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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I gave in to naming my son a name I don't like. It has always been a given that if we had a boy he would be named after his dad, who is the 4th to have the same name. I wasn't willing to fight against the tradition which was a huge deal for my husband. However I did strongly insist on his going by a nickname. I came up with a list of like 12 potential nicknames I liked and said I don't care what you pick, but I want to call him by a nickname. His family was slightly disappointed but not too much. To my annoyance someone decided it would be cute to double his nickname (think MikeMike), and that went on for years but seems to have finally abated. [/quote]

My grandmother was pressured by her MIL to call my mother Judith. She complied, but never called my mother anything but her middle name. The next year, that same dissatisfied MIL then forced her own daughter to call her first daughter Judith as well, and that girl (my mother's cousin) did use the name.[/quote]

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