My husband wants our son’s name to follow his family’s tradition – I think it’s psychotic & my friends agree it’s weird
A MOM has horns locked with her husband over the choice of name for their son.
He wants to follow his family’s tradition, but she thinks it is just plain psychotic and her friends agree it is weird.
Frustrated at his insistence, she took her dilemma to Reddit.
There were hundreds of comments to her post, the majority backing her.
Many commenters considered her husband’s stance plain “unhinged.” They said she should stand her ground.
She set out her problem: “My husband wants to give our baby’s first name the same name that all men in the family have.
“Every boy in his family has the same first name, Carl. And when I say everyone, I mean everyone.
“Him, his younger brother, his father, all three of his uncles, all his male cousins, his grandfather, and his great grandfather.
“They are all Carl but none of them go by Carl, they all go by their second name. So all of them are Carl and yet none of them are Carl.”
She was understandably bewildered by the tradition and said so.
“I hate this. To me this is psychotic. I told my parents and they were weirded out. I have told friends and they think it’s super weird too.
“But he is hell-bent on this tradition. It feels childish that I am even arguing with someone about this.”
She hoped Redditors might offer her some reassurance. They managed to do that but were baffled at her husband’s naming traditions.
Commenters plowed in sharing her disbelief.
One of them said: “At first I thought he was just refusing to budge on naming one child, which was bad enough, but he wants to name every son you have Carl? That’s fully unhinged.”
Another said to stand up for yourself: “I I would be putting my foot down on this. No one has the right to unilaterally decide a name.”
This person was no fan of the name: “Carl is one of the most unattractive names to come out of the English language.”
Plain crazy was the view of a second person: “This is ridiculous. The children are already honoring his family by using his last name.”
There was some advice from this Redditor.
“Creating a child takes two people, who both get equal say when it comes to naming them.
“If you don’t want to name your son Carl then you do not have to do that and you simply tell him you don’t like the name Carl for your children and you don’t want to use it.”