Posted on 07/15/2006 4:49:25 PM PDT by Pokey78
Yikes! She sure let herself go.
Oh, and our "meshed" name?
"Lusting"!
NO THANKS!
Hmmm, I have family named after two categories going back several hundred years. Everyone today associates Jewell as a new name but no, got that one too, and an Opal. And one Alabama. Early American trendsetters!
How about Hillary Rodint, since she's a 'Rat?
Dollars-to-doughnuts they p*ss sittin' down.
I once knew a family that had two boys: Hunter and Gunner. (Yes, Gunner.) They found out that #3 was going to be a girl, and they really agonized over how to stay within the theme. I can't recall what they decided on.
My last name has been around, in similar forms, since at least 1517, I see no reason to change it now. I know where I came from, I hope my grandchildren will, as well.
My father used to work with a guy who hated his parents so much, he took his wife's name.
Har!!
Pretty stupid considering that 50% of marriages today fail (the ones in the blue states). So after the divorce you're stuck with a stupid name, kinda let getting that person's name tattooed on you.
I especially loved when my old liberal friends tried to find me after my marriage (needless to say they had to work pretty hard!!) the horror I heard in their voices when they exclaimed, "I would never had thought you of all people would take your husbands last name!"
I laughed, said it was a great honor and that I was blessed to have such a great man honor me by asking me to be his wife. Of course that was the last I heard from them. (It was nearly as seamless as telling a lib I voted for George Bush both times :-). LOL.
How avant-garde.
Call me old fashioned, but I was proud to take my husbands name when we got married! I betcha this idea came from someone who was about to marry a "Focker"!
Lame article... They come up with two lousy couples (the Villaraigosas and Rudorens) and declare a trend.
If my girlfriend asked to have a hyphenated name, that would lead me to doubt our compatibility.
We both have issues with the submission concept, at least as typically understood (we are taking pre-engagement counseling with my pastor right now). Both the man and wife are to submit one to another; it is not as if the man get to control the wife. They both give of their talents to serve the other person. That is what Biblical submission is.
Thankfully, she has said she will gladly take my name, and she hates hyphenated names. :)
Geneaology is going to be a real mess in future, what with all these hyphenated names, new surnames, common-law couples, multiple divorces and homosexual "marriages."
Are architects liberals?
the number of college-educated women in Massachusetts who kept their original name at marriage dropped from 23% in 1990 to 17% in 2000.
And we all know how smart and ethical people are after they have been to college.
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