Posted on 08/21/2019 6:27:01 AM PDT by C19fan
hat’s in a name? While marriages between opposite-sex couples have been in gradual decline in the UK since the 1970s, with nearly 250,000 marriages in England and Wales in 2016, the vast majority of wives still take their husbands’ names. Although there are no statistics available for the UK, only 3% of men in the US changed to their wives’ surnames, a 2016 study found.
For Nick Black, the decision to take his wife’s name was part of a wider refiguring of his family’s identity after he got married last year. “I was never that wedded to my former surname, Earley,” he says. “I’m part of a compound family, and have a sister by birth and two siblings by marriage, so we have always had different names. For me, family isn’t tied to a name. My wife, on the other hand, is from a very small family, and so it was more important to her to keep her name.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Don’t buy the hype.
I tried bathing only in virgins’ blood for a year and it made NO DIFFERENCE.
That and I couldn’t find anymore virgins in the tri state area after a year.
I would be fine taking my wife’s last name. It would get me some affirmative action points. All she would have to do is pay me the full amount I paid for her engagement ring, in cash.
Not even worth a comment.
Guardian.
D-bags for sure ...
If you are a Samenfink, a Smellie, or a Bracegirdle, the chance to become a Barrett or a Sherman would probably be a chance well worth taking.
UK Guardian. Enough said.
Fags.
Why don’t they go all the way and take the surnames of their wive’s boyfriends?
LOL. I'd been meaning to try that... thanks for sharing.
Even in todays feminist culture 99.9% of women would lose respect for their husbands if they took the wife’s name.
Kill me now.
I took my wife’s name...away. :-D
The first one was called a ‘Modern Man’ by his wife’s colleagues . . . I have another word for it: p****whipped
Or a Weiner?
Redundancy alert.
Agreed. Luckily I was born with a normal regular name.
Otherwise....
If a man’s name bothered him just change it legally. You don’t have to wait to get married.
A friend of mine from church, took his wife’s name. His family was Mormon and he had become a Christian. There was some estrangement. His wife was one of two girls. Her parents were more family to him than his family was, so he took her name to honour her family.
At first, I thought it was unusual, but when he explained why, it made sense.
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