I will not do business with a women that hyphenates her last name (1 Viewer)

[Cliff Clavin]

Where do we stand on women who take their husbands' names legally and use them in personal settings, but continue to use their maiden names professionally?

Nothing wrong with that.

 

[Mr. Cross]

My wife never her changed her last name. I fell in love with her with the name she had, so really didn't care if she changed it. My kids all have hyphenated last names.

Hopefully they keep the tradition going and one day you have grand kids with 20 names.

This will be another reason that people will be micro chipped also known as the mark of the beast.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

My wife never her changed her last name. I fell in love with her with the name she had, so really didn't care if she changed it. My kids all have hyphenated last names.

Hopefully they keep the tradition going and one day you have grand kids with 20 names.

This will be another reason that people will be micro chipped also known as the mark of the beast.

6-6-6

 

[DSP]

My wife never her changed her last name. I fell in love with her with the name she had, so really didn't care if she changed it. My kids all have hyphenated last names.

Hopefully they keep the tradition going and one day you have grand kids with 20 names.

This will be another reason that people will be micro chipped also known as the mark of the beast.

6-6-6

Otherwise known as the atomic structure of carbon

 

[Fennis]

My wife never her changed her last name. I fell in love with her with the name she had, so really didn't care if she changed it. My kids all have hyphenated last names.

Hopefully they keep the tradition going and one day you have grand kids with 20 names.

Yeah, how does this work. Surely we aren't far away from.

Brayden Aaron Jones-Hastings marrying Kateliyin Mary Madison-Blagovich

It wasn't long ago my people didn't even have last names so they were given them based on their job or where they lived. This might not be so bad. I would be happy going back to the old way myself.

Are you like the King of something?

Jewish names were like (first name) son of (father's name).

Trog ben 78

 

[McGarnicle]

I miss those spring mornings as a small boy, going out with my grandfather to hunt marsh chickens.

 

[DSP]

I miss those spring mornings as a small boy, going out with my grandfather to hunt marsh chickens.

Are they gamey?

 

[DiStefano]

Even worse is women who have an hyphenated name and clap when their airplane lands.

Maybe she joined the Mile Hi Club and that's how she got it?

 

[Patriotsfatboy1]

... and now we know why people are too politically correct now. Women want to be totally equal some times (naming, pay, voting, etc.), but want to be different when it works for them (lactation rooms, maternity leave, sick time, holding doors open, don't hit them, etc.).

What is that hard about the name change?

 

[Baloney Sandwich]

My wife has a friend and she didn't take her husband's last name. That is the least of it though as she made of some facocta last name for the kids that is different than hers or the shell of the man she married.

 

[Christo]

I won't do business with a man who does not take his wife's last name. If he cannot commit to the woman he loves more than anything in the world, I do not trust him.

That's just stupid.

 

[Christo]

What if the woman simply keeps her last name?

She can. But she can't keep the ring.

 

[DiStefano]

I won't do business with a man who does not take his wife's last name. If he cannot commit to the woman he loves more than anything in the world, I do not trust him.

That's just stupid.

Here, fishy fishy...you just got hooked.

 

[Christo]

I won't do business with a man who does not take his wife's last name. If he cannot commit to the woman he loves more than anything in the world, I do not trust him.

That's just stupid.

Here, fishy fishy...you just got hooked.

Actually, Koya ways making a point. I'm not a fish. You're just not that smart.

 

[Lutherman2112]

If she cannot commit to the man she loves more than anybody in the world, I do not trust her. She is too self centered and self involved. She will take advantage of you if she can.

Some one has mommy issues.

 

[Grace Under Pressure]

My brother's wife insisted on hyphenated names. She didn't want to change her last name totally because she's a high school teacher "and her students already know her as Ms. Maiden Name." So, she hyphenated it so they could still call her by her maiden name. She also said changing her name was too big of an issue with computer logins, etc, for work. She didn't want to go through that hassle.

So she made my brother hyphenate his name. So, he gets to deal with the questions of being a mid 40s male with a hyphenated name (much more common for the subsequent generation) and he changed his work email, logins, etc.

Most dudes, their wife hyphenates name, end of story. This guy does it too

 

[Binky The Doormat]

My brother's wife insisted on hyphenated names. She didn't want to change her last name totally because she's a high school teacher "and her students already know her as Ms. Maiden Name." So, she hyphenated it so they could still call her by her maiden name. She also said changing her name was too big of an issue with computer logins, etc, for work. She didn't want to go through that hassle.

So she made my brother hyphenate his name. So, he gets to deal with the questions of being a mid 40s male with a hyphenated name (much more common for the subsequent generation) and he changed his work email, logins, etc.

jesus h. This guy makes moops look like a bastion of testosterone.

Well the kind of dough she is bringing down as a teacher, I can see where he would defer the leadership of the family to her.

Clearly a full blown cuckhold under most any circumstance.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

 

[fatness]

Julia Louis-Satan

 

[flapgreen]

Not a fan

 

[flapgreen]

My brother's wife insisted on hyphenated names. She didn't want to change her last name totally because she's a high school teacher "and her students already know her as Ms. Maiden Name." So, she hyphenated it so they could still call her by her maiden name. She also said changing her name was too big of an issue with computer logins, etc, for work. She didn't want to go through that hassle.

So she made my brother hyphenate his name. So, he gets to deal with the questions of being a mid 40s male with a hyphenated name (much more common for the subsequent generation) and he changed his work email, logins, etc.

:X

 

[loser]

Marsh-Booby

 

[fred_1_15301]

What if the woman simply keeps her last name?

She can. But she can't keep the ring.

It's just a freaking name people Who really cares.

 

[TxBuckeye]

What if the woman simply keeps her last name?

She can. But she can't keep the ring.

It's just a freaking name people Who really cares.

Most everyone I would guess. Hard to imagine anyone not caring about what their name is.

 

[DSP]

OP......what is your business btw?

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Marsh-Mallard would be a cool name.

 

[RBM]

What if the woman simply keeps her last name?

She is a true tool of the devil and all hope is lost for Salvation.

Yep.My wife joked about keeping her last name, and I said with all seriousness, "I know you wouldn't disrespect and humiliate me like that", and we had a good laugh. Then I thought about it, and I really wasn't sure if I'd marry her if she insisted on keeping her name. One of her friends has a doctorate and apparently has some papers published, and kept her last name on that basis. I think even then it's wrong. It's not like she's Dr. Phil or something. People will learn to accept the name change. Whenever I see her husband, I pity him.

 

[satch]

My wife is a very successful doctor who has owned and operated her own business since long before we met. Considering her relationships with colleagues, vendors, banking institutions, etc I fully expected her to keep her maiden name after we married. It would've been incredibly selfish of me to expect otherwise. The kids have my last name and my wife has no problem with people referring to her using my last name. It leads to confusion sometimes but it's easily remedied. I'm extremely proud of my wife, her accomplishments and her reputation, and I'm proud to refer to her by her maiden name. Plus it's a cool sounding name which happens to be very similar to mine.

A guy that has a major hangup over this comes across as very insecure, self-important, and controlling.

 

[danielmclark]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link for more information? I don't want to derail this fine thread

 

[Koya]

... and now we know why people are too politically correct now. Women want to be totally equal some times (naming, pay, voting, etc.), but want to be different when it works for them (lactation rooms, maternity leave, sick time, holding doors open, don't hit them, etc.).

What is that hard about the name change?

Don't know about the women you know, but this is a pretty large generalization.

How about this:

Let people / couples decide for themselves. WTF are you / we to judge someone else, to understand their situation? Does a woman keep / hyphenate her name because of the children? Was it something that the husband and wife talked about and felt this was best for them / their family?

Love how in this nation of "freedom" we seem to willing to judge people for exercising that freedom according to their values, if god forbid, their values / decisions don't jive with our own.

 

[prosopis]

My brother's wife insisted on hyphenated names. She didn't want to change her last name totally because she's a high school teacher "and her students already know her as Ms. Maiden Name." So, she hyphenated it so they could still call her by her maiden name. She also said changing her name was too big of an issue with computer logins, etc, for work. She didn't want to go through that hassle.

So she made my brother hyphenate his name. So, he gets to deal with the questions of being a mid 40s male with a hyphenated name (much more common for the subsequent generation) and he changed his work email, logins, etc.

jesus h. This guy makes moops look like a bastion of testosterone.

Holy hell. Yeah, no sack at all. Just reading that story and not knowing him personally, I want to punch him in the face.

I agree

 

[joffer]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

How bout the ampersand? You could sound like a law firm.Julie Smith & Wesson

 

[TxBuckeye]

My wife is a very successful doctor who has owned and operated her own business since long before we met. Considering her relationships with colleagues, vendors, banking institutions, etc I fully expected her to keep her maiden name after we married. It would've been incredibly selfish of me to expect otherwise. The kids have my last name and my wife has no problem with people referring to her using my last name. It leads to confusion sometimes but it's easily remedied. I'm extremely proud of my wife, her accomplishments and her reputation, and I'm proud to refer to her by her maiden name. Plus it's a cool sounding name which happens to be very similar to mine.

A guy that has a major hangup over this comes across as very insecure, self-important, and controlling.

I don't care about the issue to be honest. But are you saying your wife's colleagues are so low in IQ that the concept of marriage and a last name change is beyond them?

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link for more information? I don't want to derail this fine thread

I don't know about an online source, but this is tremendously worthwhile on matters of punctuation and everything else pertaining to English usage.

I'm not really saying that all slashes should be replaced by hyphens. Nearly all slashes should be replaced -- sometimes by hyphens, sometimes by "and" or "or" (but not "and/or"), sometimes by reconstructing the sentence. To see why, with apologies to Koya , refer to post #130.

 

[Henry Ford]

What about married lesbians? I'd like to encourage this while discouraging allowing women to maintain their own pre-marriage identities, but I'm uncertain how to proceed. Should they just not be allowed to have last names?

 

[danielmclark]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link for more information? I don't want to derail this fine thread

I don't know about an online source, but this is tremendously worthwhile on matters of punctuation and everything else pertaining to English usage.

I'm not really saying that all slashes should be replaced by hyphens. Nearly all slashes should be replaced -- sometimes by hyphens, sometimes by "and" or "or" (but not "and/or"), sometimes by reconstructing the sentence. To see why, with apologies to Koya , refer to post #130.

Awesome, thanks!

What about married lesbians? I'd like to encourage this while discouraging allowing women to maintain their own pre-marriage identities, but I'm uncertain how to proceed. Should they just not be allowed to have last names?

Married lesbians - like all women - have to adopt the last name of the person they're marrying. The end result is that they just switch names. If Jane Smith marries Sue Johnson, they will end up as Jane Johnson and Sue Smith.

 

[Koya]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link for more information? I don't want to derail this fine thread

I don't know about an online source, but this is tremendously worthwhile on matters of punctuation and everything else pertaining to English usage.

I'm not really saying that all slashes should be replaced by hyphens. Nearly all slashes should be replaced -- sometimes by hyphens, sometimes by "and" or "or" (but not "and/or"), sometimes by reconstructing the sentence. To see why, with apologies to Koya , refer to post #130.

Apologies NOT accepted. Besides, if that's the only shorthand I use on message boards... (yes, sentence fragment / incomplete though)

 

[Henry Ford]

Love the "pick a new name" option.

 

[Tom Servo]

My wife never her changed her last name. I fell in love with her with the name she had, so really didn't care if she changed it. My kids all have hyphenated last names.

Hopefully they keep the tradition going and one day you have grand kids with 20 names.

This will be another reason that people will be micro chipped also known as the mark of the beast.

Good to see you're pulling your Christian shtick from 1985.

 

[squistion]

OP......what is your business btw?

I think he sells hot dogs from a push cart.

 

[Andrew74]

My wife is a very successful doctor who has owned and operated her own business since long before we met. Considering her relationships with colleagues, vendors, banking institutions, etc I fully expected her to keep her maiden name after we married. It would've been incredibly selfish of me to expect otherwise. The kids have my last name and my wife has no problem with people referring to her using my last name. It leads to confusion sometimes but it's easily remedied. I'm extremely proud of my wife, her accomplishments and her reputation, and I'm proud to refer to her by her maiden name. Plus it's a cool sounding name which happens to be very similar to mine.

A guy that has a major hangup over this comes across as very insecure, self-important, and controlling.

I don't care about the issue to be honest. But are you saying your wife's colleagues are so low in IQ that the concept of marriage and a last name change is beyond them?

Hey now, stop being controlling.

 

[satch]

My wife is a very successful doctor who has owned and operated her own business since long before we met. Considering her relationships with colleagues, vendors, banking institutions, etc I fully expected her to keep her maiden name after we married. It would've been incredibly selfish of me to expect otherwise. The kids have my last name and my wife has no problem with people referring to her using my last name. It leads to confusion sometimes but it's easily remedied. I'm extremely proud of my wife, her accomplishments and her reputation, and I'm proud to refer to her by her maiden name. Plus it's a cool sounding name which happens to be very similar to mine.A guy that has a major hangup over this comes across as very insecure, self-important, and controlling.

I don't care about the issue to be honest. But are you saying your wife's colleagues are so low in IQ that the concept of marriage and a last name change is beyond them?

My wife would need to have new licenses, certificates, etc issued, tons of paperwork to fill out, with the state, vendors, banks, insurance companies, etc. There would surely be some confusion and errors which could lead to a multitude of problems over a long period of time. It's just not worth the time, problems and unnecessary stress which would be all on her. And for what? So we can have the same last name? The negatives far outweigh the positives, which are very few. I'm not going to demand my wife deal with all the extra unnecessary bs just so my ego can be stroked and appease the old school crowd. I do what's best for my family, not what's best for my ego. In this case, my wife keeping her name was logical, sensible, practical, and the best decision for our family. Any other decision could only be considered selfish.

 

[Tchula]

If she hyphenates her last name, he shouldn't have to wear a wedding ring. Fair is fair.

 

[TxBuckeye]

My wife is a very successful doctor who has owned and operated her own business since long before we met. Considering her relationships with colleagues, vendors, banking institutions, etc I fully expected her to keep her maiden name after we married. It would've been incredibly selfish of me to expect otherwise. The kids have my last name and my wife has no problem with people referring to her using my last name. It leads to confusion sometimes but it's easily remedied. I'm extremely proud of my wife, her accomplishments and her reputation, and I'm proud to refer to her by her maiden name. Plus it's a cool sounding name which happens to be very similar to mine.A guy that has a major hangup over this comes across as very insecure, self-important, and controlling.

I don't care about the issue to be honest. But are you saying your wife's colleagues are so low in IQ that the concept of marriage and a last name change is beyond them?

My wife would need to have new licenses, certificates, etc issued, tons of paperwork to fill out, with the state, vendors, banks, insurance companies, etc. There would surely be some confusion and errors which could lead to a multitude of problems over a long period of time. It's just not worth the time, problems and unnecessary stress which would be all on her. And for what? So we can have the same last name? The negatives far outweigh the positives, which are very few. I'm not going to demand my wife deal with all the extra unnecessary bs just so my ego can be stroked and appease the old school crowd. I do what's best for my family, not what's best for my ego. In this case, my wife keeping her name was logical, sensible, practical, and the best decision for our family. Any other decision could only be considered selfish.

You answered my question, which was nice. The rest seemed way over the top and defensive, which I must say I don't get based on what I asked.

 

[satch]

My wife is a very successful doctor who has owned and operated her own business since long before we met. Considering her relationships with colleagues, vendors, banking institutions, etc I fully expected her to keep her maiden name after we married. It would've been incredibly selfish of me to expect otherwise. The kids have my last name and my wife has no problem with people referring to her using my last name. It leads to confusion sometimes but it's easily remedied. I'm extremely proud of my wife, her accomplishments and her reputation, and I'm proud to refer to her by her maiden name. Plus it's a cool sounding name which happens to be very similar to mine.A guy that has a major hangup over this comes across as very insecure, self-important, and controlling.

I don't care about the issue to be honest. But are you saying your wife's colleagues are so low in IQ that the concept of marriage and a last name change is beyond them?

My wife would need to have new licenses, certificates, etc issued, tons of paperwork to fill out, with the state, vendors, banks, insurance companies, etc. There would surely be some confusion and errors which could lead to a multitude of problems over a long period of time. It's just not worth the time, problems and unnecessary stress which would be all on her. And for what? So we can have the same last name? The negatives far outweigh the positives, which are very few. I'm not going to demand my wife deal with all the extra unnecessary bs just so my ego can be stroked and appease the old school crowd. I do what's best for my family, not what's best for my ego. In this case, my wife keeping her name was logical, sensible, practical, and the best decision for our family. Any other decision could only be considered selfish.

You answered my question, which was nice. The rest seemed way over the top and defensive, which I must say I don't get based on what I asked.

I guess I had more to say above and beyond answering your question. Taking a proactive approach to the next guy who still can't understand why a married woman might keep her maiden name and why her husband would be ok with it.

 

[DiStefano]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link for more information? I don't want to derail this fine thread

I don't know about an online source, but this is tremendously worthwhile on matters of punctuation and everything else pertaining to English usage.

I'm not really saying that all slashes should be replaced by hyphens. Nearly all slashes should be replaced -- sometimes by hyphens, sometimes by "and" or "or" (but not "and/or"), sometimes by reconstructing the sentence. To see why, with apologies to Koya , refer to post #130.

Apologies NOT accepted. Besides, if that's the only shorthand I use on message boards... (yes, sentence fragment / incomplete though)

Personally, I'm a proponent of slash and burn. Just like pillage and burn. But always pillage first.

 

[DSP]

I'm just glad that people haven't succumbed to slashes. Almost anytime someone uses a slash in ordinary prose (e.g., "Osi Umenyiora is a DE/OLB hybrid"), it really should be a hyphen. It's fortunate that slash-creep hasn't (yet?) invaded the province of surnames.

I didn't know that. Do you have a link for more information? I don't want to derail this fine thread

I don't know about an online source, but this is tremendously worthwhile on matters of punctuation and everything else pertaining to English usage.

I'm not really saying that all slashes should be replaced by hyphens. Nearly all slashes should be replaced -- sometimes by hyphens, sometimes by "and" or "or" (but not "and/or"), sometimes by reconstructing the sentence. To see why, with apologies to Koya , refer to post #130.

Apologies NOT accepted. Besides, if that's the only shorthand I use on message boards... (yes, sentence fragment / incomplete though)

Personally, I'm a proponent of slash and burn. Just like pillage and burn. But always pillage first.

What about the rape?

 

[TheIronSheik]

Where do we stand on women who take their husbands' names legally and use them in personal settings, but continue to use their maiden names professionally?

Do they applaud when a plane lands?

 

[the moops]

I won't do business with a man who does not take his wife's last name. If he cannot commit to the woman he loves more than anything in the world, I do not trust him.

Thanks for checking in, Moops.

I think you know but I didn't take my wife's name. she didn't take mine either

 

[Mr. Cross]

I won't do business with a man who does not take his wife's last name. If he cannot commit to the woman he loves more than anything in the world, I do not trust him.

Thanks for checking in, Moops.

I think you know but I didn't take my wife's name. she didn't take mine either

Your wife does not respect you.