All through my life, my mom would accidentally call me by my sister’s name, before correcting herself and addressing me by my name. There were younger points in my life where I would let that piss me off, but eventually it more or less because everyday occurrences, and I stopped really noticing them beyond hearing them when they happened.
It didn’t even take a full 24 hours to pass before I had already called #2 by #1’s name. It happened more frequently in the AM hours where we were struggling to get any sleep we could. But by day two of #2’s life, I had already slipped up numerous times, and even the times where I stopped myself from making the mistake, if there was ever any hesitation in my flow of speech, mythical wife would pick it out and know that I was on the verge of using the wrong name again.
Therefore, I have become my mother in this regard, and I can only hope that as their lives progress, they can forgive their dad for being just like halmoni, and roll with the slights as well as I eventually learned how to do as I got older.
