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My first husband and I both hyphenated, and had no drama (again, we were in CA). But OMG! changing back was such a pain after the divorce. I still haven't done it with the cell phone, because I consider the information they demand to be unnecessarily intrusive (no, you really do not need a copy of my divorce decree, and why do you need my driver's license again? CC company took me at my word.).
I'm engaged again now, and I've decided to keep my last name. I realized how attached I am to my last name, AND to the family story behind it, AND given that there are people in my life who still call me by my last name, it would be silly to change it.
DF doesn't care, don't know if his family knows or will really care, and my family hardly thinks of such things. I'm sure some of the older generations in our families will end up addressing mail to Mr. and Mrs. Husband'slastname, which will be a little annoying but not terrible. I suspect our kids will have my last name as their middle name (or one of them, anyway).
HOWEVER, living in rural SW Iowa, I am sure this is going to freak some people out. The hyphenated thing was apparently very complicated for some individuals for whom it should have been easy (do we file this under "D" or "G"? Well, see, the first letter of the last name is "D," so why don't you use that?; plus some deliberately obstinate folk who just refused to acknowledge my last name.), so I am sure that the keeping of my own name will raise some eyebrows. That, and being a minister. Oh, and getting the legal stuff done in Canada, in solidarity with our GLT brothers and sisters. WHEW!
by liturgygeek on Fri May 09, 2008 at 02:33:26 PM PDT
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