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RE: Marriage Surnames
December 4, 2015 at 9:00 am
(December 4, 2015 at 4:46 am)Aractus Wrote: (December 3, 2015 at 8:19 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Incredibly, stupidly, assholishly sexist, actually.
I changed my name because it was important to my husband, despite us both being feminists. Sometimes I wonder if it was wise because it has professional considerations for me, but he is important to me and it was important to him, so I did it, and I'd do the same again.
Neo-feminism psycho-babble.
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RE: Marriage Surnames
December 4, 2015 at 12:41 pm
Wife take's the husband's last name and uses her maiden name as her middle name. Happy to solve that for you.
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RE: Marriage Surnames
December 4, 2015 at 1:08 pm
My fiancé is keeping her name as she has academic publications under it and her profile would be confusing if she changed.
My surname is an amalgamation of my parents. My mother never took my dad's name.
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RE: Marriage Surnames
December 4, 2015 at 1:22 pm
.. and your dad never took hers. Come on. Don't leave us hanging like that. Shake that other shoe off.
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RE: Marriage Surnames
December 4, 2015 at 2:07 pm
(December 2, 2015 at 12:07 pm)Tiberius Wrote: What are everyone's views on marriage surnames, i.e. which person takes the other person's name when getting married, or do you double-barrel or even invent an entirely new surname for both people?
I ask because once all my immigration stuff goes through, I'm planning on changing my surname to my wife's maiden name, for no particular reason other than I happen to like her surname more than my own, and I'm always a fan of breaking with tradition when there's no real reason for the tradition.
My wife's female cousin just got married to her wife, and they decided to take the wife's name. I guess it works the same for men marrying men? Either way, it would be interesting to know what people think, whether you know people who did non-traditional things with their surnames after marrying.
Names are arbitrary, If I saw you in real life I'd probably think of you as Tiberious anyway.
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