My father, before he had his second child (me! also, it's my birthday!), was apparently known to opine that his mother was terrible because she often called one son by the other's name. The names were too similar, also, she sucked.
Not that it was my grandmother's fault that her boys were named Bill and Bob - Bill chose that name on his own when he decided he hated the name he'd actually been given at birth.
Anyway, as a consequence of this lasting childhood pain, he was careful to insist that his two children had names as dissimilar as possible.
And he rapidly found out that everybody mixes up names, no matter what, and it is immensely frustrating all around. (Though he still ended up semi-estranged from his mother for other reasons. Turns out that his anger at the name thing was just a symptom and not the actual root problem.)
Why on earth would you want to make life harder on yourself by choosing to give your kids rhyming names? No, it's just not worth it.
With that said, if LW cannot convince Husband of the wiser path then I advise her to go with one of those "trick" pairs like Isabelle and Eleanor and then either refuse to call them by a nickname at all or steadfastly call them something not matching such as "Isa" and "Nora". Let him do his own thing. What's he gonna do, file for divorce?
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My father, before he had his second child (me! also, it's my birthday!), was apparently known to opine that his mother was terrible because she often called one son by the other's name. The names were too similar, also, she sucked.
Not that it was my grandmother's fault that her boys were named Bill and Bob - Bill chose that name on his own when he decided he hated the name he'd actually been given at birth.
Anyway, as a consequence of this lasting childhood pain, he was careful to insist that his two children had names as dissimilar as possible.
And he rapidly found out that everybody mixes up names, no matter what, and it is immensely frustrating all around. (Though he still ended up semi-estranged from his mother for other reasons. Turns out that his anger at the name thing was just a symptom and not the actual root problem.)
Why on earth would you want to make life harder on yourself by choosing to give your kids rhyming names? No, it's just not worth it.
With that said, if LW cannot convince Husband of the wiser path then I advise her to go with one of those "trick" pairs like Isabelle and Eleanor and then either refuse to call them by a nickname at all or steadfastly call them something not matching such as "Isa" and "Nora". Let him do his own thing. What's he gonna do, file for divorce?