Why I Took My Husband's Last Name

   "So, are you going to change your last name?", I was asked. What? What does she mean? Of course I'm changing my name, I'm getting married. duh. "Ummmm I think so." was all I managed to stammer out before I changed the subject.

It is an important question to ask yourself in this day and age where previous traditions have, newly, gone out the door. Most of our parents have the same last name. I have seen very few hyphenate.

I asked myself this question for many many nights. Why WAS I taking his last name? Tradition? That's it? Well that's bull......

There were so many options: I take his name. He takes mine. I hyphenate. I hyphenate legally but socially go with his. It was not a stress I expected during my engagement.

Soon I convinced myself I was going to hyphenate my name and that was that. Then I thought of my potential children. I didn't want my name to be different than theirs'! Ahhh but I could just make theirs hyphenated as well. Well now Ryan won't have the same last name. Maybe he could change his name too. I really don't like the way my first name and his last name sound together.

It hit me one night as I was dozing off to sleep, the epiphany I needed!

I would take his last name. Not for any other reason than the fact that I wanted to present a united front to the world. It was a representation of our new life together - our potential family together. And that was all that mattered to me.




So why not change every one's name?

Because my maiden name was too darn hard to pronounce and only having to do half the paperwork could save a freakin' tree. :0)

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