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Could you date a girl with the same name as your mom?

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My very first "girlfriend" (we were just children) had the same name as my mother. Not a big deal, I always call my mother "mom" anyway.
 
Already had a girlfriend with my mom's name.
It was kinda weird, especially after she told me to start calling her by a nickname and such because the proper name made her think about my mom for whatever reason.
 
Idk but when ever I talk to my mom I don't call her by her name, I just call her mom so I don't think the name is instilled in my brain where I hear the name used and think my mom has the same name.
 
When I was 15 my mom met and dated a dude that had the same name as me. Then she married him. Sorry but it creeps me out and always will. :(
 
Some of you have problems...

That would totally be no issue for me.

Another thing would be if the girl resembles your mom very much (in a younger state). Sometimes you see people on the streets which almost look like twins from people you know.
 
Probably be pretty weird unless I knew said person for a while before dating. My mother's name is pretty uncommon among my age group though, so it's pretty hardset in my mind that "Linda" = "my mother". I mean I've never met nor can recall a single "Linda" in any classes or social meetings I've ever been to. I could easily see someone who's mom had a common name not getting weirded out by this though due to being exposed to the name more commonly across a much wider group sample group throughout their daily life.


Hell, I've read books with sex scenes with a female character named Linda and it made me a little uncomfortable, so eh...
 
Yes, reality is not a sitcom where id the only place something like this would have some real impact on anyone.
 
Highly doubt I could date a girl named Ruth period, but anyways I think if a girl had the same name as my sister it would be way more awkward and weird.
 
Welp, OP, you've made me aware of it now. Like the fact that reading this has now made you start to breathe manually, fully conscious of it.
Next Mary-Chanda I meet aint getting no D. Especially because my first name starts with that letter
 
Well I don't call my mom by her first name, and even if I did, so what. Could you date a girl who has the same name as a sister, a cousin, or an ex-girlfriend? It's not a big deal.
 
ChainedMaster said:
Or date a guy with the same name as your dad? There's this girl that has the same name as my mom, Ruth, but it's almost like I would not do anything with her because she shares the name. It just doesn't feel right man.
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If I were a guy it wouldn't bother me because my mom's name is mom. I don't call her by her actual name.
 
Wedge7 said:
Now if she had the same name as my sister, I wont lie, a part of me would find it a little weird.
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Is that your sister?

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har har.
 
Don't you call your mother mom or something? So I don't think it feels too weird to call your gf by her first name.
 
Absolutely not. Mostly because I don't like my mom much. Shame too, there was a pretty cute girl named Natalie in high school that had a thing for me.

On second thought probably could have just called her Lee to get over it.
 
1.21Gigawatts said:
My moms name is so old fashioned I never even met a women younger than 50 with the same name.
So I'm good.
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Yeah, there's no one under 60 with my mom's name.
My sister's name was never very popular.
Jesus, I'm looking at top baby names and Khaleesi is number 18 for girls this year. Ew.
 
I think this may be a bigger deal for the GF than for me

I just call my mom "mom". Calling her by her given name feels wierd.
 
Another interesting thing to consider here: I wonder how the consensus here differs from people of a divorced household from people with a single parent in the picture or a "traditional family". Coming from a split household (saw my dad on every other weekend) the only person who I ever heard refer to my mother as "mom" was my brother and I. Everyone else, including her mother and father + my dad, constantly referred to her by her first name. So really I kind of came to know my mother more by her name than by "mom", and used the latter more as a term of affection or a title rather than what one would traditionally consider a name.

Interesting thread, though, because it's something that's honestly never even crossed my mind before for any number of reasons.
 
In high school I had to do a simulated marriage with a classmate that had the same name as my mom. What made it weirder though was that I have the same name as my dad.

It made me realize that I never want my first name or my mom's first name as any future family member's names.
 
I have. To make it stranger I share names with my father. I still don't know how to feel about that encounter.
 
I couldn't do it, no. Sex would be waaaaay too awkward. I'm the type of person who when I said her name, my mother's image would flash in my head. No offense to my lovely and wonderful mom, but... total boner killer.
 
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