Why I'm Not Changing My Last Name, Ever (Page 3)

[JDavid25]

Aye well, it is what it is.. LOL.. It kinda seems like a I want separate bank accounts type thing..

[Rainie_]

Not changing my last name either, dad actually took on my mother's surname. It's a really unique one, and only people related to me has that surname.

[deraz24]

I just like the way mine looks with my name like I couldn't imagine another name in its place if anything I'll add it on the end lol

[Prof_Don]

hyphenating is a good alternative in my opinion

[deraz24]

@Prof_Don kinda what I said..

[Prof_Don]

I was agreeing with you! 😀

[RachelleDraws]

Good for you! My wife will be taking my last name, but that's due to her not liking her last name, as it is very common.

[Shamalien]

You could always do what my mom did and swap out her middle name instead. Her old last name is now her middle name so she has the same last name as my dad. It's a good compromise, especially if you have a shitty middle name like she did XD

[Waffles731]

what if you were on the run and had to change your name because you don't want the heat on you

[1truekhaleesi]

Then maybe, I'll change my name.

[Waffles731]

I'd also advise cutting and dyeing your hair and carrying some sort of cheap Saturday night special that you can throw into a river, maybe three of them

[Tanisha69]

I will change my last name for my future husband. But you do you

[Harmseygrace]

I'd change my last name. I said I wouldn't, everyone told me I would when I love someone enough, and they were right.

[goaded]

We kept our own surnames, with the idea that our male children take my surname and our female ones their mother's.

[JenSCDC]

That's exactly how I'd do it.

[TripleAce]

sounds fair
if I was a girl I wouldn't wanna give it up either...

[ATuairiscean]

I agree with everything you say - It is an archaic tradition

[JudgmentDay]

It's simple, you don't have to change it if you don't want to change it.

[Pink2000]

I don't want to change my last name because no other last name other than the one I already have sounds good with my first name.

[Prof_Don]

Taking the man's name in marriage is not about "how it sounds". It is about the symbolism.

Then again some people just don't have any respect for traditional family values.

[Pink2000]

@Prof_Don well I'm still young. It's not really a big deal right now. I would love to keep the name my dad gave me because I'm his only child and he can't have anymore.

[Nice222]

If you you were to get married and have kids whose last name would they have?

[1truekhaleesi]

I can't have kids and I don't want to adopt. For many couples, they decide something unique. Some couples decide to give their kids the husbands name, others hyphenate them, and others give the boys the husbands name and girls the wifes name.

[Nice222]

That's cool. Thank you for sharing.

[April10]

Your name, your choice. I know tons of people who are keeping their last names. Myself included :)

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Do whatever you desire. My wife will take my last name though.

[noesbueno]

I would respect my future partner's decision about either keeping her last name or not. that is not an issue for me in a partnership.

[MisterSir]

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[hotstuff76]

I want to be a successful operating room nurse and I would not like to rebuild my reputation from scratch?
Will changing your name change your reputation?

[1truekhaleesi]

Not literally change my reputation but changing my last name will lead to confusion that we are two separate people.

[hotstuff76]

get you! ...

[TonnyStryder]

My family made that decision a long time ago and thank God i don't have either my parent's last names, they suck.