Baby naming vent 🤬🤬🤬

I’m 35 weeks pregnant, we don’t know the gender. A few days ago, we finally picked names and decided we were set on them. We agreed not to tell anyone because I made it clear I wanted no opinions. It’s taken us 20 weeks to agree on two names.

Well yesterday, my partner blurts out to his sister our name choices. She was like “eww Jaxon, why would you pick that?” And I threw him a dirty look because that’s exactly what I was trying to avoid. Instead of saying it’s what we wanted, he asked her why she doesn’t like it 🤦‍♀️

She was like “it was that weird kid from daycare when we were really little.” He said he didn’t remember him. She said “he had that skin disease with the white patches. I’ll think of him every time I hear that name if you use it.”

My partner doesn’t even REMEMBER this kid and now he doesn’t want to use the name because she doesn’t like it.

I was so so angry after she left and he said that. I told him if we have a boy, it’s going on the birth certificate because I’m NOT starting over again when we both loved the name. She already named her dog the first name we chose (supposedly she didn’t know we chose that name but now I’m second guessing that considering how he blabbed this one).

To top it off, she was questioning my dates (to HIM with me sitting in the same room) because I’m “too small” to be 8 months and look more like “3 or 4 months.” And then questioned us about circumcision because she disagreed with our choice last time. Then kept trying to force our terrified son to hug her (he hasn’t seen her since Jan ‘20). She also threw a fit that we aren’t finding out the gender because then she can’t decide what to buy, even after I said I bought everything we need. He agreed with her that we should probably find out. I’m being induced at 37 weeks, less than 2 weeks to go, WHY would we find out now when she’s never bought anything for the child we already have??

He didn’t stand up for our choices as parents one bit! He knew I was mad because I took our son to bed after the name discussion and haven’t really talked to him since. Now he’s hanging out with her this afternoon though and she’s going to put more in his head.

Why do some people feel so entitled to other peoples’ children and why are some men such pansies when it comes to their family??!

Rant over 😂😂😂😂

*just to add that this is maybe the third or fourth time I’ve met her…so really the first time I’ve seen this side and was more observing the dynamics.