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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 17, 2007 17:33:57 GMT -5
Men don't have to change their last names because historically speaking men have never been property passed down from woman to woman whereas women were passed down from their father to their husband. So yeah...thats pretty much why I wouldn't change my name ever. /dawn moment
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 17, 2007 20:35:47 GMT -5
I like the idea of the couple choosing a whole new last name for themselves! Even better if they can somehow combine their names without having to hyphenate them. Like... Smohnson (Smith + Johnson) or something. hehe.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Sept 17, 2007 20:50:53 GMT -5
lmao Smohnson. Did Sharon go back to Porter before marrying Richard? Or was she still a Schafer? I'm trying to think of how to combine their names
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Post by greer on Sept 17, 2007 21:29:01 GMT -5
she was still schafer.
hahaha that reminds me of sex and the city when charlotte wrote all the possible ways she could combine her name with harrys and carrie is like "you forgot yorkenblatt."
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Post by dawnomite on Sept 18, 2007 22:09:48 GMT -5
Men don't have to change their last names because historically speaking men have never been property passed down from woman to woman whereas women were passed down from their father to their husband. So yeah...thats pretty much why I wouldn't change my name ever. /dawn moment word.
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Post by hitzpink on Sept 19, 2007 9:57:11 GMT -5
They could be Schpier, sotypical!
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Post by starrynight on Sept 19, 2007 18:08:50 GMT -5
^ That's how Nonie from SS#2 would say it!
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Post by greer on Sept 19, 2007 18:25:46 GMT -5
^hahahaha!
i always thought they were incorrectly describing her speech impediment, but according to wikipedia she had a "lateral" lisp.
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Post by dawnomite on Sept 21, 2007 14:17:20 GMT -5
So since I last posted here I've actually gone and gotten my name legally hyphenated. The fact that my state ID needed to be renewed so I could no longer order a glass of whine at dinner was what forced me to go in and do it.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2008 18:22:10 GMT -5
Yes, typically a divorced woman with kids would keep her married name. My parents divorced when I was four, and my mom kept her married name until she married my stepfather the summer I was sixteen. Then, a few months after my own wedding, my mother and stepfather divorced, and my mom still has his last name.
My stepmother and her first husband never had any children, so my stepmother took back her maiden name, Johnson, and even though she's married to my dad, she still has her maiden name, and you can imagine they get all kinds of interesting calls, with people asking for either "Mrs. Wallace" or "Mr. Johnson".
For a few months after my husband and I were married, whenever we'd do a show at our community theater, I'd have them list both my maiden and married names in the program.
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Post by wenonah4th on May 4, 2008 18:24:12 GMT -5
^You mean as in Martha Custis Washington?
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Post by nothingtolose18 on May 8, 2008 8:44:46 GMT -5
I think I'd like to keep my last name when I get married someday. I mean, maybe I'll feel differently when the time comes, but it's my name. I've grown up with it, and it just seems so weird to me to change it. Most of the people I know did, however. A couple of my aunts didn't, though; they just hyphenated it. I don't know ... I sort of want to carry on my family name, even though any kids I might have will probably take their dad's name. Whatever, I just want to keep my name. See, my paternal grandma and grandpa had thirteen kids - eleven of them are girls. My uncle and my dad are the only two boys; my uncle doesn't have any children, and my dad has just me and my sister. One of my aunts, however, isn't technically married but she is living with her boyfriend she's been dating for years. They even have a kid, my cousin, who's a year or two younger than I am. He goes by his dad's name, even though he sometimes uses our last name, I think. Anyway. I just hope that I can carry on my last name for a little bit longer, lol. /life story
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Post by Penny Lane on May 8, 2008 9:38:15 GMT -5
Even when I was a kid I never did understand why they called Emily Michelle a "Thomas-Brewer" or why anyone referred to Sharon Spier as "sharon schafer spier". Wouldn't it have been Porter Spier? I just don't get why she would keep the name of a husband she divorced and moved 3,000 miles away from.
I would like to change both my first and last names to something pronounceable and common someday. However, I have the mistake of mostly dating guys with last names that are actually worse then the one I was born with. So I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
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Post by Lauren on May 8, 2008 12:39:09 GMT -5
When I got married I dropped my maiden name and kept my middle name, because I always hated my maiden name. Sometimes I wish I had kept it though because it's easier to pronounce than my married name.
Getting back on topic, it doesn't really make sense for Sharon to be Schafer Spier.
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Post by sparklymouse on May 8, 2008 17:32:30 GMT -5
Emily got Thomas-Brewer because Watson and Elizabeth adopted her to unite the family. She was a little piece of everyone, or something like that. It had zilch to do with the deadbeat Thomas dad.
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