I?ve Been Married for Months and Haven?t Changed my Name?Here?s Why
My whole life, I’ve been waiting to get married and finally shirk my last name, which causes a storm of confusion to all. It’s Rodrigue?not Rodriguez, or Rodrigues?and people, rightfully, think the end of it got chopped off in a printer somewhere whenever they see it. It hasn’t meant much to me for most of […]
My whole life, I’ve been waiting to get married and finally shirk my last name, which causes a storm of confusion to all. It’s Rodrigue?not Rodriguez, or Rodrigues?and people, rightfully, think the end of it got chopped off in a printer somewhere whenever they see it.
It hasn’t meant much to me for most of my life?especially since no one in my French-Canadian family really knows where it came from. So, I’d tell myself, feminism be damned, as soon as I’m hitched, Rodrigue is getting ditched (or at least hyphenated). Only, when the time actually came, and I finally tied the knot with a Joseph Presser, I got cold feet about the whole thing. Would taking his name and tossing mine be like losing part of my identity" Would my fiercely feminist girl tribe be judgey" Is hyphenating a gimmick" Can’t we both just pick a new last name, like Middleton" Now, ten months after we’ve left the altar, I’m still a Rodrigue, he’s still a Presser, and I’m as undecided as ever.
Change is Tough
First, the obvious roadblock: Changing your name is annoying. Who knew" Imagine the wors...
My whole life, I’ve been waiting to get married and finally shirk my last name, which causes a storm of confusion to all. It’s Rodrigue?not Rodriguez, or Rodrigues?and people, rightfully, think the end of it got chopped off in a printer somewhere whenever they see it.
It hasn’t meant much to me for most of my life?especially since no one in my French-Canadian family really knows where it came from. So, I’d tell myself, feminism be damned, as soon as I’m hitched, Rodrigue is getting ditched (or at least hyphenated). Only, when the time actually came, and I finally tied the knot with a Joseph Presser, I got cold feet about the whole thing. Would taking his name and tossing mine be like losing part of my identity" Would my fiercely feminist girl tribe be judgey" Is hyphenating a gimmick" Can’t we both just pick a new last name, like Middleton" Now, ten months after we’ve left the altar, I’m still a Rodrigue, he’s still a Presser, and I’m as undecided as ever.
Change is Tough
First, the obvious roadblock: Changing your name is annoying. Who knew" Imagine the wors...
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