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On the phone with a client at work I had to give her my email address so she could send something to me. My work email has my first and last names @ my workplace name. I always spell my last name out because it starts with a B which over the phone could be a D, and it's the kind of name where people go - "huh?"
At some point I said "yeah, I married that name!" to which she replied - "well I married 'Hickey'!" (her last name). We both laughed and I told her that I had divorced mine and she said she had too - and she wondered out loud how come we had kept these married names!
Together we both said "the kids!" More laughter.
I thought our bonding moment was over until she said "but let me tell you what happened. I kept the name and later when my son got married - he took his wife's name!!!"
Damn kids!! Too funny.
Monday, December 29, 2008
Why we do a lot of things.
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I always mourned my maiden name even to this day 38 years of marriage later I wish I would of hyphened it... its like losing a part of your identity.
Diane
I wasn't that attached to my maiden name. But my married name isn't great and I would have rather had something else. But - I wanted to have the same name as my kids. Now I've had my married (and divorced name) longer than I had my maiden name.
I'm not attached to my maiden name either. A name is just that, a name. It doesn't encompass all of a person. What's important is WHO you are not what you're called.
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