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In reply to the discussion: Have You Ever Wanted to Change Your Name? [View all]PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,811 posts)57. It's not been requisite for a woman to change her name
for a long time now.
I got married in 1980, didn't change my name, and I'm astonished that women still do that. Whatsisname Bezos' new wife promptly changed her name, and I'm rather horrified.
Hillary Rodham initially didn't change her surname, but apparently that impacted Bill's political career, so she knuckled under and made the change. Personally, I respect her a lot less for that. Women married to prominent men need to hang on to their own identities.
Or, as soon as men change their names I'll go along with it.
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Honestly, I don't see the point in women changing their name to their husband's
ProudLib72
May 2019
#70
First and Middle, no. But have wanted to take my mother's last name for a long time.
Lady Freedom Returns
May 2019
#6
Yes. I always hated my first name. Ugly sounding, unusual spelling, just awful. It didn't help that
lunamagica
May 2019
#39
Orphie? I can't even...I did change it No one who didn't know me as a child even knows that name
lunamagica
May 2019
#41