Are you keeping your last name or changing it?

I just read this interesting article on SavvyMiss.com about the debate over whether you should take on your husband’s last name once you get married! Great opinions, but I’m still torn!

Take a look by following this link:

Should a Woman Take Her Husband's Name? - Savvy Miss.com

My fiance is changing his last name this summer to a name that he relates to better (his mother's new married name and the last name of the man who raised him). I helped him pick the name out and I really like the name. There was no question in my mind that I would change my last name. I feel that it really does unite the family. I'm not hyphenating like people keep suggesting because my name is freakishly long right now (11 letters) and there is no way that I'm going to make it any longer.

I'm taking my fiance's name. Not that there's any kind of correlation, but the women I know that didn't change their names ended up in divorce. That's not why I'm doing it, though. I see marriage as creating a new life together and starting a family. Whether he takes your name or you take his, I think it creates a better union to have the same last name. I'm pretty traditional too so I'm taking his last name.

I would like to keep the same name.......




Ninja

I am having the same problem my man dosent want me to take his name he wants me to hyphenate because my name with his last sounds really silly, but I am still not sure...

I am taking my fh's last name. I think that taking his name or adding his name to yours or comming up with a new one all together adds unity to the family. I don't think that I would like us having two different last names after we were married.

My Finacee is from Lybia and there the women keep their name, so it doesn't matter to him. I REALLY love my name, and it is really ethnic Elena(eh le n ah) Pilar (pee l are) Ortiz (or tease), His name is Elfergani (fer jan ee), so I am still not sure, but I do know I don't want to have a different last name than my children.

I decided that I was actually going to hyphenate my last name and my fh's name. The only reason for this is because I hae an eight year old son who has my last name. He also has a son that has his last name. So to keep my son from possibly feeling left out we came up with the decision to hyphenate. Now if my fh were to adpot my son then I would drop my name alltogether because we would all then have the same last name.

I haven't read that article and I'm not sure I want to see possible reasons to keep my last name (Wright). I'm old-fashioned when it comes to that, I guess, so I have no problem taking his last name (Hurd).

Besides, I'd get bored if I was a Wright all my life!

I don't mind keeping the last name!!!!

jamoon