“Opposite-Sex Marriages”........really?!?!?
What % of those that kept their last name, ended their egomania in divorce?
IOW
marriage
the way God designed it
The other 2 kept the manâs name with which they were born.
And yet every single one of them have their fathers last name.
It must be hell living with that.
There are good and obvious reasons for a wife taking her husbands name but we ought to go back to something they used to do in the past: Using her maiden name on her tombstone. While the generation that knew her doesnât need the info subsequent generations often do. Tombstones go from being markers placed by the bereaved to all the history anyone has, very quickly.
Beloved husband Tom Smith/Beloved wife Jane Jones.
Why does the fundamental and strictly legitimate basis of marriage and family escape some people?
Couldn't that be simply explained as a hold-over from the Hispanic culture? Isn't it tradition in Spain, etc. to not entirely discard the wife's surname?
Regards,
The diamond wedding ring is just an old tradition as well. No need to retain. A plain gold band will suffice.
Does anyone really believe this nonsense “study”?
The only reason I didn’t change my name was because I had a long standing business of 17 years and it would have been a nightmare to change everything. Mr. GG2 never cared about it anyway. He also owns a business so he understood. Its never been a problem.
It's still bologna
When I married my wife 37 years ago she worked in broadcasting. She was one of the news anchors you would listen to on your way to work in a couple of large New England markets.
She did not change her name on air. I had many people ask me how I felt about this. They seemed to think it was an insult to me.
She would tell people that she worked many years under her name and changing it now would confuse people professionally. She told me that she took my name on her license, our mortgage, and her paycheck.
Years later we worked in the same facility. I looked her up in the company directory. She was listed as Mary {radio name} {married name.}. I asked why that was...she hadn’t worked in radio in 15 years. She told me the HR person who input her name into the system had been a “big fan” and was very excited to meet her.
It appears that professionally, there was some value to a name.
Don’t Hispanics keep all their maiden names... going back 6-10 generations?