I'll never change my name and I was just curious how others feel about that and why they feel that way.
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Has to do with one's own preference, and what the couple has agreed to. Many will not do a name change due to job, career, and other reasons. Some girls look forward to the name change and just write it over and over.That goes for men as well to change their name instead of the woman.
20299
YES!!!\nI'VE got a weird name\nthat's why i have named myself Jessy\nbut that's not my name!!\nmy friends think it is cool but i don't
440052
I am comfortable with my sexual identity, and it matches my biology. So, no I probably wouldn't change it.
621827
well ,.. i dont see anything wrong with keeping your last name,.. its yours! its a part of you and it has been for a long time,.. look,.. whether you change your name or not it does not mean tha tyou care and love your husband any less,.. amybe he needs to be reminded of that,.. and while you are at it remind him what year we are living in,.. !
563375
i would not ever consider plastic surgery because i feel that god gave me what i got and why change any of it.
508429
Ha ha - I guess am a perv because last name was NOT what came to my mind...\n\nThanks for the laugh ~ have a great day, Lynn
155875
once was enough for me, it was under duress, meaning I never wanted it, I wanted him gone out of my life.\nnow he is, I like my/his last name, so I am keeping it. shorter, same initials.\nmaiden name is YOUR REAL birth name. school mates know you by this name. when you get out of school, college, etc.\nothers know you by married name if you have one. \nthink twice about marriage, suppose to be 4-ever. now adays, it lasts week or 10 days.\nsorry, it does, not golden days, life has too much stress to stay with troubled marriage.\ngood luck to you  and your life.
558987
I don't have a middle name, only one of my brothers does. When people ask me what my middle name and I say I don't have one; they laugh as if I am making a joke or I somehow am ashamed of a name I don't even have.
522584
I wouldn't do it.\nEverything that I have gone through has made me who I am today, and even though lots of it has been bad, I wouldn't exchange that life for anything- all that I have gone through has lead to me being more able to help my friends who have gone through similar things.
444016
Yes, I like my name very much.  There are two things I hate about it:\n\n1.  People making fun of it, thinking that my parents named me "Louise" after the character Isabel Sanford played on the hit TV show, "The Jeffersons."\n\n2.  People called me that ridiculous nickname "Weezy."  Only the late Isabel Sanford is Weezy; in life and in death.
88553
lol I am glad you didn't mean me. Maybe I should change my name....
167758
i think it would be beyond weird to change it.  that tradition is way outdated.  it is so wrong.  even if today, a woman doesn't feel that she is losing her dignity to change her name for a man, it is still representational of that.  your name is who you are.  why would you change your name?  it is so obviously an issue of men needing to own a woman's entire identity.  men would never be willing to change theirs. if both men and women changed names, it would be easy to say it is just a way to show how much we love each other and plan to make a new life together.  when people question you, you can just say that you are planning to be the same person you have always been (in name and in personality), just happier and more devoted to your husband.  does your husband support this decision?  surely if he wouldn't be willing to change his name he can understand why you wouldn't want to.  the world is so full of people who just do things because that is how it has always been done.  they don't even question it.  this is how history repeats itself and ignorance, fear, and hatred never die.  you are doing the right thing by staying true to who you are.  don't worry about them!
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I think the deal with changing your name is that you can have as many names as you like as long as you aren't deceiving anyone.   If everyone knows you have ten names, then ten names are fine.\n\nThe problem comes with the admin, and that comes thick and fast.   How is your employer supposed to pay your salary into a bank account that doesn't have the right name on it?   How are you going to get on a flight if your documents don't match up with one another?\n\nI used to know a Brazilian woman with a big long name made of about eight bits.   She sometimes used one combination, sometimes another.  She ended up getting arrested for stealing her own bank card!
583326
Well I am fine... How are you?\n\nWell I think your name is just fine but if you don't like it then change it! My name is Diana I was named after Princess Diana who died in 1998
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I wouldn't think so, because your parents choose your name without knowing anything about you.
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i think you have your own right to name your child what ever you want and it does not depend on what other people think of the name and it sounds like a very interesting name to me
544172
My middle name is "Jo"...nothing special sounding but it is special because I share it with my mother, grandmother, and it was my great-grandfather's first name. so i like it and I will pass it on to my daughter...but I go by my first name, Kyla