Woman Names Baby While Husband Is 'Out Getting Coffee' — Now He's 'Furious'

Mar. 15, 2025

A woman giving birth in a hospital bed in stock photo.Photo:Martinns / Getty Images

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“We’d been going back and forth on names during my entire pregnancy,” she shares. “I really wanted to name her Eleanor, after my late grandmother who basically raised me when my parents weren’t around. She was my hero, and losing her last year was devastating. Honoring her felt deeply important.”

But her husband preferred more “modern” names, she writes, “like Nova or Ember, which I just couldn’t connect with.”

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“We never reached a compromise—just this endless loop of me suggesting something meaningful, and him calling it ‘old-fashioned,’ " she adds.

After she gave birth, her husband “stepped out to grab coffee” and the nurse walked in the hospital room to ask if the couple had chosen a name to put on the birth certificate.

“I know I should have waited, but I was emotional and felt this rush of conviction. I just blurted out ‘Eleanor,’ " she writes.

She continues: “When my husband returned and I told him, he was furious. He said I’d blindsided him, robbed him of having a say, and that our daughter would hate her ‘old lady’ name.”

The man’s family is also mad, calling the woman “manipulative.”

“I feel terrible about the timing and how it all went down, but it’s not like we hadn’t discussed Eleanor before. I just feel like I honored a name that truly mattered to me when he wouldn’t budge,” she adds.

source: people.com