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Am I the Jerk?

Mother DEMANDS I CHANGE my BABY'S NAME to one SHE APPROVES OF

Am I the Jerk?

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Society & Culture, Relationships

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

My entitled mom demands that I change the name of my baby as she absolutely hates it,

0:04.9

claiming that my wife and her family have twisted my sense of obligation to family tradition

0:09.6

by picking a name that's outside of what she would approve of.

0:12.9

Here's what happened.

0:13.8

My wife and I are both in our late 20s, and we had her first child together in June.

0:18.0

Before he was born, there was a lot of talk about names from different

0:21.1

family members on both sides. But the pressure by far was definitely on my side specifically.

0:26.6

We didn't tell a soul what the name would be until our son was born and we had left the hospital.

0:31.1

And needless to say, my parents were disappointed when we announced our son's name. My family

0:35.8

is very traditional in how they named us.

0:38.0

We were each named after grandparents, and that's how they feel everyone should name their kids.

0:42.6

My wife's family doesn't have a tradition when it comes to naming babies. They just name them and then go

0:47.5

along. There's no fuss or insisting on certain names, but my wife's side tends to favor more

0:52.4

uncommon and unusual names. And honestly, my wife and I's

0:55.9

taste tends to lean a little bit more to her side than to mine, which is how we ended up picking

0:59.9

the name that we chose for our son. This was not something my parents like because they

1:03.9

expected our son to be either Jack, which is my dad, or Parker, who is my father-in-law. But I know they

1:09.3

were expecting a little Jack to be born, so that

1:11.6

added to their reaction. So they quizzed us on our choice to break tradition, and I told them it

1:16.8

wasn't a tradition my wife's family used, and we decided we weren't going to have one either.

1:21.5

Over the last couple of months, both parents have questioned why we did this, and have wanted to

1:26.0

discuss other names for future babies, and my mom has been the worst by far. She asked why we did this and have wanted to discuss other names for future babies.

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