Had to laugh when i read this topic....

DH and i agreed that when discussing possible bub names, if we brought up a name of someone we had been with/had a history with we had to mention out of respect to our partner. How horrible if you found out from his mate down the track "oh how funny, he was sooo in love with a blah blah for years and years...."

This created a prob though cos every second girls name i said he goes "well, hmmm,actually, there was this girl...." followed by "perhaps not that name" then "well i should prob mention that..." After a while i called time out and changed the rules (i met hub when he was 38 and a lifetime bachelor who had been quite busy...) as it was beginning to upset me hearing names put to his extensive history and besides it was starting to sound like if we ruled out the name of every chick he "spent time with" we would struggle to have any left over!! The man had been on his own for twenty years so quite frankly even if he only "kept company" twice a year it still rules out a lotta names!!! I decided that he should only rule out a name of a girl if he was in love with her and suddenly the problem appears to have disappeared.....

Funnily, he brought up the name Benjamin, which we both said we loved and i could FINally GO "WELL, ACTUALLY...." and he says " well, how old were you when you knew this guy??" So i answered EIGHT!!! He figured he could live with that so if we have a boy it will v. likely be BEn!!!!! So after all that YES for me, i think i prolly am drawn to a crush from way backs name just cos he was a gorgeous kid!!!!