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Griefstricken25 ( member #29183) posted at 1:53 AM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
It would be weird at first, but I have a good friend with the same name as WXH and for some reason, it sounds different when I'm referring to or thinking of him.
I wouldn't write him off at first. At least get to know him a little.
Me!
3 amazing kidlets
To WXH "Now you're just somebody that I used to know." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NF2edxy-M
D-day and separation - June, 2009
Divorced - December, 2011
nowiknow23 ( member #33226) posted at 1:58 AM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
If I accidentally call an SO by the "name" in my head for WXH, I will be apologizing for calling him an asshole motherfucker. Some people change THEIR name when they divorce; I changed his.
OMG, caregiver - that is AWESOME. 
You can call me NIK
And never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
― Sarah McMane
cmego ( member #30346) posted at 2:49 AM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
@ Care...
t/j when my BFF and I were texting about ex a long time ago...her phone autocorrected "That Fuck" to "That Duck".
We now just roll with it.
Has the ducker quacked today?
What the Duck?
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck...
Also enables me to talk in code about the ducker in front of the kids.
me...BS, 46 years old.
Divorced
roughroadahead ( member #36060) posted at 3:35 AM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
I couldn't do it. At least not yet. Waffle has a pretty common name, first and last. There's more than one column of them in the old school phone book. I rarely used his name, but the mental association would be too strong.
It did turn out that waffle has the same name (first and last) as MOW's first H. 
BS-Me 30s
WS-Him 30s
D-Day 4/2012 (Insisted EA only)
D-Day 5/2012 (Did I say EA? Ummm..)
Numerous other TT/broken NC d-days until S 1/2013. D settled 11/2013
MOW-coworker, 40s.
2 DS and DD all w/autism
SBB ( member #35229) posted at 4:13 AM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
If I accidentally call an SO by the "name" in my head for WXH, I will be apologizing for calling him an asshole motherfucker. Some people change THEIR name when they divorce; I changed his.
@ CG, he will always be Stretch and Skew to me. That story is quickly spreading throughout Sydney. This is how urban legends begin...
I may have reached a point where I'd piss on him if he was on fire.... eventually!!
Mandilwen ( member #27186) posted at 7:13 AM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
My ex and son have the same name. It's sort of common and doesn't bother me at all. SO name is very similar, and I've feared calling him by the ex's name since I talk with both frequently. Luckily, SO knows I'm bad with that, and I have even accidentally mixed the dog or cat's name in while hollering for a human, lol! Thankfully I have never erred their names!
BS-34; WXH-32; DS8; DS3; OC3
DDay: SEPT 2008
Divorced: JUNE 2010
foxglove ( member #21791) posted at 2:43 PM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
My current SO and my XH have the same name. I think it is a fairly common name in the 50 year old crowd. Doesn't bother me at all, in fact has been helpful at certain moments! 
Me (BS) 57
XH (WS)
Married 21 years
Divorced 2/19/07
Two grown sons
Remarried 9/18
ExposedNiblet ( member #30803) posted at 4:30 PM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
My XH's name isn't a common one.
If someone was interested in me that had the same name...I'd consider it Divine Intervention and run as fast as I could in the opposite direction.
No way, Jose.
Sad in AZ ( member #24239) posted at 4:36 PM on Thursday, July 25th, 2013
I know so many of you deal with asshole Xs, especially those with young children. I will have to qualify my response by saying it probably does not apply in your situtations, but for someone older like me or perhaps childless, if you were bothered by a name, I would say that you were in no way healed from your experience and not ready for dating.
I never liked the X's name 
but I'm pretty sure if I met an awesome guy with that name, I could handle it. 
You are important and you matter. Your feelings matter. Your voice matters. Your story matters. Your life matters. Always.
Me: FBS (no longer betrayed nor a spouse)-63
D-day: 2007 (two years before finding SI)
S: 6/2010; D: 3/2011
259 ( member #22860) posted at 7:38 AM on Friday, July 26th, 2013
tj: for cmego about the duck.
my friend texted me that my ex was an asswhole.... then straight away sent me another saying that she knew it was spelt wrong but it was OK cause he was a whole ass
yup she called that one right 
Me = FBS
Him = gone
things that happen in my life do not define who I am. I get to choose to be the best I can be, for me. cause I'm worth it.
Kajem ( member #36134) posted at 3:40 AM on Saturday, July 27th, 2013
Before I met xh , the 4 or 5 guys i dated all had x's first name. I also dated them in alphabetical order.
I think I need to go a bit further in the alphabet.
I trust you is a better compliment than I love you, because you may not trust the person you love, but you can always love the person you trust. - UnknownRelationships are like sharing a book, it doesn't work if you're not on the same page.
Helen of Troy ( member #26419) posted at 4:22 PM on Sunday, July 28th, 2013
Same name and birthdate would bother me. It would be really hard to get over either of those.
wildbananas ( member #10552) posted at 4:32 PM on Sunday, July 28th, 2013
Kajem
ex-asshat's name isn't odd but it's an "older" name and you don't see it much. (It's also XFIL's name and the oldest banana's name.)
That said, put me in the "no way" camp. Maybe it's not fair to all the other nice ones out there but I associate way too much heartache with that name. I couldn't go there.
A friend of mine has an H with the same name as her XH. We've always referred to them as ET ("Evil Todd") and NT ("New Todd").
[This message edited by wildbananas at 10:34 AM, July 28th (Sunday)]
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peacelovetea ( member #26071) posted at 9:41 PM on Sunday, July 28th, 2013
My best friend married a guy with the same name as her Dad. THAT would bug me.
BW, SAHM
D-Day: 6/5/09, drunken ONS on business trip, confessed immediately, transparent, remorseful but emotionally clueless
M 11 years, 3 kids
4/12 Tried to R for 3 years, have decided to D
12/31/12 D final
willowiris ( member #5372) posted at 3:00 AM on Monday, July 29th, 2013
One of my best friends married two Mikes. (She divorced them both.) She starts her stories "When i was married to Mike #2..."
My ex is also Mike/Michael. Through the seventies and eighties, the name was #1 in popularity. I have managed to avoid dating another one, somehow. I have dated the most Marks since my divorce, I guess, though not all of them turned into relationships.
I guess I wouldn't rule out dating another Mike if i met one who were any good, but it hasn't happened yet, so that's good, i guess.
D-day 09/2004
Filed for divorce 9/2006
We accept the love we think we deserve. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."
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