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- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 09:11:51 EST
- From: Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <93022.091151SEK@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: soc.couples
- Subject: Re: A Question...
- References: <106120@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Lines: 44
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- In article <106120@netnews.upenn.edu>, pezzillo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Amy J.
- Pezzillo) says:
-
- >Personally, I think that it's a good idea for a married couple to
- >share a last name, both for the sake of convinience and because I
- >think it is a clear reminder that they are family to each other.
-
- I agree, but I'm still not convinced that I want to change my last name.
- I'm thinking of just keeping it, and not bothering to get upset if
- people call me "Mrs. Pfeifer." This saves me the trouble of having to
- change my passport, driver's license, credit cards, etc. However,
- it adds additional problems. People are used to calling married women
- "Mrs.," but I couldn't ever be "Mrs. Kueppers." I would have to remain
- "Ms. Kueppers." People will no doubt get confused, as in, "yes, but
- what's your *real* name?" (Reminiscent of the Peter, Paul, and Mary
- 25th anniversary special, in which Mary recounts how she's always being
- asked which of the two men she's married to, and she says neither, and
- the person she's talking to says, "no, really, which one are you married
- to?" Her comment was, "you'd think I'd *know*!")
-
- >I know a few men who seem to think it is solely a woman's problem and
- >solely her decision. She has the option of keeping her name or taking
- >his or hyphenating them, but he does not expect to have to do anything
- >at all.
-
- My fiance is like this. He doesn't seem to care what I do with *my* name,
- but he doesn't want to change his name in any way. For example, I suggested
- at one point that he replace his middle name with my last name, and
- he didn't want to do this because his mother would get upset if he removed
- his grandfather's first name from his name. (I then suggested having
- *two* middle names, which the paper-pushing beaurocracy would just love.)
- Changing his last name to my last name seems to be completely out of the
- question, and I admit that it strikes me as a little odd that it's not
- completely out of the question for *me* to change my last name.
- I find the whole situation very frustrating.
-
- 4 more months to make this decision...
-
- -Sonja
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- SEK@psuvm.psu.edu SEK@PSUVM.BITNET
- Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone --
- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
- - Bette Davis
-