Her Husband And His Family Started Calling Her A Nickname That Only Her Late Mother Used To Use, So She Told Her Husband To Stop, But He Claimed She Should Have Gotten Over It By Now
This 28-year-old woman named Lucy has a husband who is 30. And her husband has always been extremely fond of nicknames in general– which is why he’s given her a bunch.
Apparently, the nicknames are constantly changing, and she’s never really minded any of the nicknames her husband had given her in the past.
“They’re all quite harmless, usually food or animal-related. But they tend to stick for quite a while,” she said.
Her in-laws also happen to use a ton of nicknames– occasionally giving her some, too. And if the nickname her husband calls her isn’t too sappy, his family will just join in and use the same one.
She wanted to make it clear that she really didn’t care about this, either. Instead, she actually found the habit pretty endearing and cute.
But that was until more recently when her husband began to call her “Lulu.”
For context, she was only ever called Lulu by her mom while she was growing up. Then, not too long before she first met her husband, her mom sadly passed away.
“I took my mom’s loss pretty hard. I told my husband that it [the nickname] has a lot of emotional significance for me and that it doesn’t feel right to hear anyone else say it,” she explained.
“He respected that for years, and so did his family.”
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However, her sister-in-law has recently begun referring to her as Lulu to other people whenever she is not present.
Afterward, it seemed like her husband naturally picked up on the nickname and started referring to her as Lulu, too, which really started to annoy her.
What irks her the most is it’s clear that her husband hasn’t forgotten her reasoning behind not wanting to be called Lulu.
In fact, he always hesitates before saying the nickname, so she knows her husband realizes that it’s wrong and is testing the waters to see how she will react.
So, she calmly reminded him a few times how she would appreciate it if he just didn’t call her that.
“There’s plenty of other things I didn’t mind him calling me. Nothing that had emotional weight,” she reasoned.
Still, just the other day, her husband admitted that he really didn’t understand the big deal anymore. He pointed out how it had been years since her mom passed away, claimed it was “just a nickname,” and believed she should have gotten over it by now.
According to her, her husband expressed his opinion lightly, too. But that didn’t mean it didn’t still sting.
That’s why, while she realizes now that she might have overreacted, she decided to pack a bag and stay with her sister.
Afterward, both her husband and the rest of his family began texting her, claiming that she was getting too worked up over a “little nickname.”
“And I think maybe they’re right. I want to get past this because it feels petty at this point,” she vented.
So now, she’s wondering whether telling her husband and in-laws to stop calling her that specific nickname was really an overreaction.
Can you understand why she doesn’t want to be called that nickname by anyone but her mom? If nicknames aren’t a big deal, then why do you think her husband and his family refuse to stop? Is it up to anyone else when she should “get over” the death of her mom?
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