When it comes to naming your newborn baby there might be many things you take into consideration. Maybe you'll name them after a family member, or come up with a completely different name you and your partner like the sound of.
One man is deeply regretting his promise of naming his firstborn daughter after his mother, because they don't have a good relationship at all. In a curious twist that makes the whole thing more complicated, he made the promise to his late sister, who passed away two years ago.
It's quite normal to honour a parent by using their name as part of your children's name - but he now deeply regrets his promise.
Explaining the situation on Reddit, the anonymous forum poster explained: "Two years ago, my sister (I'll call her Marie) passed away. She had a myriad of health problems, and though her death was not sudden nor a surprise, our entire family was hit extremely hard.
"My mother especially, as they were very close. Unfortunately, my mother was an awful person to everyone except for Marie."
Before she passed away, his sister expressed wishes that she would like the next girl born in their family to be named after their mother. He and his other sister agreed at the time, but now that his wife is pregnant with a girl, he "just can't do it".
After airing his thoughts with his other sister, she told him he had made a promise that he should stick to - and to think of it as honouring Marie, instead of their mother.
In the post, he continued: "I accept Anna's logic, but emotionally I'm extremely unsure. My wife is totally on board with whatever I want to do because we're using her all time favourite name as the first name, so we'd be using my mother's name as a middle name if at all."
The bloke received lots of support online, with many agreeing that it wasn't fair for her sister to make the request in the first place.
One commenter suggested: "Don't do it. Your daughter deserves a fresh start in life and a father that doesn't cringe every time you say her name. You could instead, name her after your sister."
Another added: "I would not even use it as a middle name. I disagree with Anna's reasoning. If you gave your daughter the name Marie, that would be honouring Marie. Giving your daughter your mother's name is not honouring Marie, it is honouring your mother."
A third said: "Only you can make this decision, and whatever it is you should make the decision you can live with best, because you're going to have to live with it."
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