DearPrudie: My parents refuse to call me by my new name.
My parents gave me a really terrible name, that half-rhymes and contains a racial slur—think “Gypsy-Pixie,” and misspelled. I have hated it my whole life and was bullied mercilessly for it in school. My friends and teachers called me an initial-based nickname at my request, although when my parents found out that teachers used my nickname, they called the school and complained, to my absolute mortification. I changed my name legally as soon as I could upon adulthood.
We live near my family, so I get to see my family often; we live far from him and they’re spread far and wide, so he gets to see them only a couple times a year. Those times are expensive—we spend several thousand a year on those trips, one where he or we travel to his parents’ home and another family get together in some touristy area at a nice AirBnB. I don’t have an issue with that since he certainly deserves to spend time with his family.
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