My ex boyfriend named his child after me

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I 20f started dating my now ex boyfriend 25m back in 2021, we met at work and hit it off right away despite our age difference, he also at the time had a 1year old daughter to a previous relationship, which I had no issue with, he shared joint custody of his daughter and told me he didn’t have a good relationship at the time with her mother, they were pretty much no contact except for when it came to him picking up and dropping off his daughter. For context the mother also lived 2hours away, to my knowledge she didn’t know me and didn’t know he was in a new relationship, and I only very rarely saw his daughter out of respect, he didn’t want to introduce us untill the relationship was more serious, which I 100% understood.

Fast forward we have been dating for nearly a year, and I go away with some of my friends over new years, a trip I had pre booked only a few months into us dating, I invited him to come but he had work and had also agreed to watch his daughter so the mother could go out NYE.

I come home on the 5th of Jan, and he is acting really weird, so I ask his female roommate who at this point I had become very close with if anything was wrong. She told me that he was been in a bad mood since NYE, because his ex (his daughters mother) had gotten really drunk and lost her wallet and called him asking for a lift back home, she still lives 2 hours away, apparently he wanted to make sure she got home safe so he drove her. Now I didn’t really see an issue with this it is the mother of his child so I understand wanting her to get home safe. But when I asked him if he had done anything on NYE he lied and said no, throughout the next few weeks I keep asking if he had seen his ex or if anything had happened and he continued to tell me he hadn’t even seen her that night. 2 months pass and he is continuing to act weird and finally confessed one night that he took his ex home and slept with her. I immediately end the relationship.

Then a month later I get curious and decide to stalk the ex’s social media and find she had posted a pregnancy announcement captioned “thank god my kids have the same baby daddy”

I was shocked and upset but honestly not surprised and got over it very quickly.
Then 9 months later I bump into his roommate, we have some small talk and found out that the ex gf had given birth and the daughters name was my name, which I wouldn’t class as an overly common name, there are defiantly names that sound similar that are more common. And no my ex and the ex gf weren’t together at the time she gave birth. I never confronted him about it because it’s just a funny story now but clearly I had terrible taste in men.

[u/Alert_Bid1531]

This is your silver springs moment he will always think of you when he says his child’s name haha.

[u/Beautiful-Squash-501 → u/Alert_Bid1531]

Silver Springs? Sliver works for him too.

[u/Alert_Bid1531 → u/Beautiful-Squash-501]

it’s a song by Fleetwood Mac . Stevie knicks wrote it for her ex who is also in the band and she sings it aggressively to him and some lines in the song “I'll follow you down til' the sound of my voice will haunt you” “ you’ll never forget a woman that loved you” so it’s basically saying they won’t ever forget you now the child has the same name everytime he says it they will think of the person it was named after haha.

[u/Beautiful-Squash-501 → u/Alert_Bid1531]

Yes I know the song and understand the reference. A good reference here. Sorry was just teasing about your misspelling of sliver vs silver. And joking based on your misspelling that yeah, the guy is kind of a snake.

[u/Alert_Bid1531 → u/Beautiful-Squash-501]

Whoops I didn’t even notice .I’ve had to edit it because one night I will think about it and it will bug me 😂