The time I got married, I asked my wife not to change her last name because the women in my family don’t. (Even if they did, I think I would still find it off-putting. It’s my last name. You have your own last name.) She insisted on changing it regardless of what I wanted, and that was the “red flag”…
The joke is on her. She had to go through the trouble of changing it back after the divorce :)
The joke is on her. She had to go through the trouble of changing it back after the divorce :)
That always sounded like a huge pain in the ass to me. People are so unrealistic about marriage so often though. It might end. Many marriages do. Don’t do something stupid as if it never will to make things harder on you later.
I knew a guy who had his wife’s name tattooed in huge letters on his neck. What a dumb thing to do.
My brother got his girlfriend’s named tattooed on his chest as a surprise for her. Luckily they’ve been married for ~20 years now so it worked out, but that struck me as a risky move at the time.
When my parents got divorced, my mother didn’t change her last name. She said it was her name most of her adult life and didn’t feel the need to revert to her childhood name.
The time I got married, I asked my wife not to change her last name because the women in my family don’t. (Even if they did, I think I would still find it off-putting. It’s my last name. You have your own last name.) She insisted on changing it regardless of what I wanted, and that was the “red flag”…
The joke is on her. She had to go through the trouble of changing it back after the divorce :)
That always sounded like a huge pain in the ass to me. People are so unrealistic about marriage so often though. It might end. Many marriages do. Don’t do something stupid as if it never will to make things harder on you later.
I knew a guy who had his wife’s name tattooed in huge letters on his neck. What a dumb thing to do.
My brother got his girlfriend’s named tattooed on his chest as a surprise for her. Luckily they’ve been married for ~20 years now so it worked out, but that struck me as a risky move at the time.
She’s a doctor so it was even more of a huge pain than usual for her, both times.
If he gets divorced, Facebook can give him a list of all the other people with that same name.
True. Thankfully it’s not a unique name.
When my parents got divorced, my mother didn’t change her last name. She said it was her name most of her adult life and didn’t feel the need to revert to her childhood name.
This is pretty common. Same for my mom.
When she remarried, she kept the name too. Her new husband not so happy about it, but it was clear she ruled that relationship.