name pick frustrations
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You’re growing a human being for almost a year. You get dibs on name 🤷🏽♀️ He’ll come around.
My husband and I couldn't decide on a girl name when I was pregnant with my first (boy) and we've been throwing around girl names for 3 years now "just in case". Now I'm pregnant with #2, we didn't even talk about names until we knew if it was a boy or girl because the hypothetical made it too stressful. Once we had the reality, we ended up agreeing on our girl's name within 2 days. We talked about options and categorized as yes, no, maybe and then also specified if we liked a name as a first or middle name only. We had three options to stew over and ended up settling on a 4th option relatively easily
Have you tried using a name matching app like Kinder so you can see the type of names he likes and if there are any that you agree on?
I told my husband that he already gave our baby his surname and the name is left to decide for me and he agreed.
I feel like if I'm going through the labor, then I get to pick the first name. The partner can pick the middle name. Name the baby what you want, your husband just needs to be smart and agree with you.
My husband is the exact same. We have totally opposite styles. I know him so well though that if I picked a first name I loved and he didn’t like and paired it with a middle name that I vetoed and he really liked that he would compromise and that’s how I got him lol
I feel you, this is my husband right now with our second. He doesn't like any of the boy names im coming up with but yet refuses to think of actual names himself. 🫠 ive literally told him im going to pick a name without him if he keeps this up. And thats what im going do, honestly he named our first boy so now im at the point where im just going bulldoze him in the name department and he's just gonna suck it up. 🙃