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Masquerade wrote:Oh my. Somedays I wish I didn't know how to read.
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oh Puh leeze wrote: I told DH when we married that I like my name and I'm used to my name and I'm keeping it, but he could go right ahead and change his if he wished. We both still have the names we started with.
WhoKilledBambi wrote: no kicking the nerds. We need them for sciencing.
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goflippr wrote: I think if it were the norm to NOT change your name when you got married most of these issues wouldn't be issues. It would be "normal" for women to have their original last name and it would eliminate a hell of a lot of problems for people down the road, since 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. It's archaic in this day and age.
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Dutchy wrote: goflippr wrote: I think if it were the norm to NOT change your name when you got married most of these issues wouldn't be issues. It would be "normal" for women to have their original last name and it would eliminate a hell of a lot of problems for people down the road, since 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. It's archaic in this day and age.Here when you get divorced you always get your maiden name back unless you apply to keep your ex's name, he has to agree on that and if he's already remarried you can't keep his name. So women keeping their ex-husband's name after a divorce are pretty rare here. It's even quite common to change the last name of the kids to the mother's last name after a divorce if the kids are still young.Here when you marry you always legally keep your maiden name next to your husband's name, on all official documents the last name is hyphenated (husband's last name - wife's last name), so the name change is less drastic.
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Dutchy wrote:goflippr wrote: I think if it were the norm to NOT change your name when you got married most of these issues wouldn't be issues. It would be "normal" for women to have their original last name and it would eliminate a hell of a lot of problems for people down the road, since 50 percent of marriages end in divorce. It's archaic in this day and age.Here when you get divorced you always get your maiden name back unless you apply to keep your ex's name, he has to agree on that and if he's already remarried you can't keep his name. So women keeping their ex-husband's name after a divorce are pretty rare here. It's even quite common to change the last name of the kids to the mother's last name after a divorce if the kids are still young.Here when you marry you always legally keep your maiden name next to your husband's name, on all official documents the last name is hyphenated (husband's last name - wife's last name), so the name change is less drastic.
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Jan 5 12 7:19 AM
UnRuli wrote:I would actually like to change my entire name to something not so generic though if I were divorced going back to my maiden name would alleviate some of that. I chose to take my husband's name because I got tired of having to explain that no, I didn't care how you pronounced my last name because I don't even know how to correctly pronounce it myself (all my my grandfather's brothers pronounced it differently it's Slavic). As long as you don't add an "r" in the pronunciation (something strange a lot of people did) I'm good with it. Now, I'm more tired of such a boring, average name.
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pedfjords wrote:Well, last time something went out on my dryer, it was a new hookie-doo and it cost under 35 bucks. If your kids have expensive toys like those, one would imagine you could find means to fix a safety issue. IMHO.
msmith wrote:No, no. Relish causes more rear end collisions every year than cell phones and crying babies combined. Always assume that relish is involved in motor vehicle accidents until informed otherwise.
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