We’ve all been there—caught in the crossfire of family jokes that stumble on the edge of playful and annoying. For months, one guy’s sister-in-law had a favorite target: his name. What started as a harmless joke turned into relentless teasing, and he decided enough was enough.
My wife and I have been together since we were 19 and we’re now 32. I met her family after we’d been together a year. SIL was actually the first. The very first time we met she blurted out that I have a girl’s name (Skye) and then proceeded to laugh about it. My wife told her to shut up and stop laughing. It didn’t bother me at all back then. I just laughed and told her there are plenty of male Skye’s around, even my great grandfather who I was partially named after. I was named after my great grandpa Schuyler who went by Sky his entire life and Sky Masterson from Guys and Dolls.
I think, I can never earn over which I paid by my precedent employer, but I was wrong, world is so large to try their fate. but now I am making $52/h even more,and easily earn minimum $1300/week, on the experience everyone must try to do work online, easy way to earn, here's an example.
𝐰𝐰𝐰.Richnow05
So the first time was no big deal. Some people have asked me before if I felt like my name was a girl’s name and not a guy’s name and I never minded.
SIL joked a lot about my name and our kids’ names when we were expecting our babies. It got a little annoying but you know, I was able to brush it off and my wife would cut off her sister and would tell her to leave if she went a little too far which only happened once back then.
We didn’t see her a lot for a while but she got engaged last year and was around more, and seemed to have calmed down a lot. And now she’s having her baby, a girl, and oh boy is she testing my patience.
It started with her husband asking what she thought of the name Skye for their daughter. She joked that they couldn’t use the name because she didn’t want me to feel more like a girl than I already do. My wife told her to grow up and we left. The next time we saw her they announced Skye was the name they decided to go with. I said cool. SIL said she was surprised I was okay with sharing my name with a girl. I told SIL her daughter wouldn’t be the first and I wasn’t insecure in my masculinity and I saw no problem with sharing the same name girls or women.
The next time we saw them it was a joke about putting both Skye’s in pretty pink dresses when her daughter is born. We stayed out of her way for the rest of that visit. Then she joked that I had finally gotten embarrassed by my name and was using my middle name because one of my uncles who always called me by my middle name was visiting and she heard him call me that. More stuff like that happened and then on Saturday we were back at my IL’s house for MIL’s birthday and SIL was joking with some of MIL’s siblings about my name and she tried to involve me by calling me over to tell her dumb jokes.
It finally got to me and I asked her if she had to be so annoying. I told her her how tiring it is to always hear her dumb jokes, which aren’t even really jokes like she claims, but insults directed at me. She called me sensitive and I told her she’s the person who hasn’t given up on my name in over a decade. I told her everyone gets it, she sees Skye as a girl’s name, but she’s not funny. SIL got mad. My wife told her she was about to become a mom and needed to listen to us and grow up.
Sometimes, the best way to handle a persistent tease is with a clever answer that leaves no room for refutation. Now, their family gatherings are free of those tiresome jokes, and he has proven that standing up for oneself can be both satisfying and effective.
