hehehe I like how I was part of this. Very true! We never will lose our identities even though we take our husband’s name. We create our own quirks & family habits/rules. It’s part of being a grown up I guess.
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I agree. “What’s in a name?”, as they say. Whether married women drop their last names altogether to adopt their husband’s, or add their husband’s last name as part of a hyphenate is completely up to them, and it has little to do with the subjugation of women. Besides, I also know some women who retain their maiden names after marriage, because they were business owners before getting married, and it helps with retaining their assets.
Ultimately, what lies deeper within our identity is not the name that we’re attached to, but the characteristics that attach us to the families that we end up in, whether by marriage or by birth. I like your description of the adaptation of a new last name as a symbol of family unity, because that’s what it really is.
hehehe I like how I was part of this. Very true! We never will lose our identities even though we take our husband’s name. We create our own quirks & family habits/rules. It’s part of being a grown up I guess.
:D
I agree. “What’s in a name?”, as they say. Whether married women drop their last names altogether to adopt their husband’s, or add their husband’s last name as part of a hyphenate is completely up to them, and it has little to do with the subjugation of women. Besides, I also know some women who retain their maiden names after marriage, because they were business owners before getting married, and it helps with retaining their assets.
Ultimately, what lies deeper within our identity is not the name that we’re attached to, but the characteristics that attach us to the families that we end up in, whether by marriage or by birth. I like your description of the adaptation of a new last name as a symbol of family unity, because that’s what it really is.