Changing last name after marriage: Who takes whose?
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I'm not really into marriage either.
I know and neither am I which puts us in an odd position.
Legal rights, obviously. I look at marriage as a partnership. You're individuals who have your own lives but you also work together. I wouldn't want to "become one unit."
I'm not really into marriage either.
I know and neither am I which puts us in an odd position.
Live in sin
A bit Borgish sounding, isn't it?
MC has a more religious view of marriage while I come from a more partnership angle. Both are, of course, perfectly legitimate.
I know. I was just trying (and apparently failing miserably) to be funny.
It really is.
Commander Rabbit
Commander
When I got married, I took my husband's name. I quickly regretted having done so -- I felt like I'd lost a part of my identity. Ironically, when we got divorced 17 years later, I chose to keep his name because it was so much mine by then. I use my "maiden" name as my middle name.
I cant stand those chicks who want to keep their last names and their husband's name. It is a pain in the butt writing forms out for them and having to try to squeeze both names on the "last name" line.
This is one of my pet peeves. Women shouldn't be expected to change their names; it's a throwback to the days when women were considered property. I certainly wouldn't want a woman who was living with me to change her name. I mean, it wouldn't be a deal breaker, but if she's living with me, odds are she's not the type to want to change her name. 
My girlfriend and I were just having an argument over this. I think it is a silly tradition and people should just keep their own names. Plus I really don't like my last name very much. She really wants us to be known as Mr and Mrs. so-and-so. I think people should just keep their own names. Hyphenating is even more stupid especially when it comes to children. What do you do after the first generation when Mr. Thad Frumpington-Smith marries Miss Emily Fortisque-Jones? I always think you should just give the kids whoever has the best sounding last name. Ultimately do whatever you like, that's good advice for almost anything in the world.
Don't forget the Megazord while you're at it.
I don't get the reference.
Not even Voltron?
No. Wikipedia tells me it's a cartoon. I guess the others are, too?
It's funny but that's how it's done in Latin America but without the hyphen. And to clear it up before someone asks children get the first last name of each parent so it doesn't become Frumpington-Smith-Fortisquie-Jones but just simply Frumpington Fortisque.
I always love these threads because some people get so up in arms over this when in some other cultures the tradition is for the wife to keep her name and for the children to have a combination of the mother and father's family name.
Maybe it'd be easier if people took numbers, like in Asimov's Nightfall.
I have dibs on 4747.
