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HelpRe: Elinor, Genevieve and Grace
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Maybe.
The nickname thing is a bit of an issue. My in-laws do not use nicknames and in fact are pretty against them. Rose is occasionally Rosie, Caleb is occasionally Dub...but that's it. I'm pretty much the only one who uses nicknames. I'd have to put up with a lot of eyerolling and snide comments if I decided to use a nickname.
The moral of Pete's story is: No matter what you step in, keep walking along and singing your song... because it's all good.
The nickname thing is a bit of an issue. My in-laws do not use nicknames and in fact are pretty against them. Rose is occasionally Rosie, Caleb is occasionally Dub...but that's it. I'm pretty much the only one who uses nicknames. I'd have to put up with a lot of eyerolling and snide comments if I decided to use a nickname.
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They'll get used to it. The kid is your kid too. My family is a HUGE nickname family, which is why I consider nicknames for every name I ever think about because I'd like to preempt the choosing of one. Additionally, I am a product of my family and I shorten names myself! That being said, one of my Aunts who married into the family hates nicknames- her kids are always Benjamin, Nathanael and Josiah. We don't roll our eyes. Initially we were like "Benjamin is a long name to use all the time!" And we all do call him Ben on occasion but we actually do use their full names way more often because that's how their mother always referred to them. She doesn't get annoyed when we do shorten their names either though, she just never does it. She also calls all of us by our full names all the time, and none of us go by our full names ever in family situations.
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