NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/soc/couples/4897

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Subject: A Question...
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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:26:00 GMT
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Funny thing is, my husband and I were just discussing this in the car
today.  I was commenting on how Hillary Clinton had retained her maiden
name Rodham after they got married but changed it when he went into
politics.  We wondered if he still would have been elected if she had kept
her name.  I have already heard disparaging remarks about her being
domineering (read: speaks her mind).  Imagine the perceptions if she had
kept her name.  When I was preparing to get married I planned to become
Renee Lester-Owens.  Just keeping my name seemed somehow cold and
unromantic.  I would have loved it if we could have both taken a hyphenated
last name, but my husband, like the other men that have been mentioned,
wanted no part of it (and, like other people have commented, didn't care
what I did with my name.)  For a while I did use a hyphenated name (never
bothered with the paperwork hassle), but magazine subscriptions kept coming
back as Renee L. Owens.  I finally just reverted to my own name.  I'm
comfortable with it.  It's great, because if anyone ever calls and asks for
Renee Owens I know they are selling something and I don't need to talk to
them.  I also have some relatives who will not call me by my proper name
even though I have told them.  That only concerns me because we plan to
hyphenate our child's name and I would like people to get that straight.
                      Renee