Women changing their names when married?

[CerberusIV]

Originally posted by reds4ever


But how do you prove ownership if she gets lost and handed in to the police station?

Isn't yours microchipped?

[Sloth]

My friend's wife took his name: now she's called Mike....

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by CyberShy
My wife took my name.
I'm very happy with that because it makes things easy. We're two people of the same house and we have the same name.

If we might ever get any children they'll have the same name as well. It'll keep things simple.

It's a tradition that the woman takes the man's name, but if my wife would have refused that I would have token hers. Just to be sure to have the same name.

I hate it when I call to a colleague in example, and then someone with a strange name takes the phone. I'm not sure, is it his wife? His girlfriend? His housekeeper or did I just dial the wrong number?

But indeed, it doesn't matter much if two maried people don't share the same name, but I just like it to keep things simple.

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by CerberusIV


Isn't yours microchipped?

I'm TRYING to lose mine!

[LTEC!]

Hyphenate. My desicion.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
traditionally, korean women do not change their surnames when they get married.

imho, however, whether the woman changes her name or not is her decision. if my future wife decides to keep her name, or hyphenate it, or change it, it's fine with me. i don't plan on changing my last name, thus i don't expect or particularly desire her to change hers.
(although i understand the husband changing names is common in some other cultures?)

My wife adopted my last name.
I expressed no opinion either way as I felt it was completely up to her.
Culturally, it is still common to do so in Canada-- I don't have any stats but my feeling is that a vast majority of women have changed their names but that the proportion that do so is declining. I'd estimate about half of the 20-somethings I see get married now, change their name

I always disliked hyphenation since next generation we have Smith-Jones marrying Skoropat-Noormohamed . . Do they hyphenate again? Plus hyphenated names are hell when filling out government forms. I have seen some women tack on their husbands name at the end of their name while retaining their former surname in the middle

[SlowwHand]

So, it's LTEC-Great?

[Q Classic]

er, to clarify: this:

traditionally, korean women do not change their surnames when they get married.

that happens in korea, where it's expected that they won't. here in the states, to make things simpler, a good deal of them adopt their husband's surnames... then again, many of them also take "americanized" names as well.

[JohnT]

Laura kept her last name, no arguments, but the child(ren) have my last name.

[Donegeal]

Ok... what about if there is a divorce? Should the woman take her old name back?

Mine didn't....

And on the subjects of cool last names...

I once dated a girl with the last name of Cruzen. Thought about combining the names for awhile.... Car-Cruzen.

[Dis]

I'm going to make my wife change her name to Annie the Maid

[Dinner]

I would be pissed to the point of calling off the marriage if she didn't want my last name. In my mind it is part of getting married and a symbol of our new life together. If she digs in on something so simple and fundimental then it's clear that hard times are ahead.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Up to her, really... but I'd perfer he keeping her maiden name. I think it's silly for her to have to change her name... after all that's what is on her diploma's .

I would be pissed to the point of calling off the marriage if she didn't want my last name.

Mysogynist!

[Sava]

I don't care, but I would suggest that sharing a surname would create more of a symbolic bond.

[Dis]

actually I can care less if the woman takes my name.

but I would insist the children have my last name.