Advice for Explaining name change to old friends when I go back home?
I was needing some advice for how to explain to old friends and stuff like that whenever I go back home from college this summer. I took my mom and stepdad's name, but at 20 a lot of people would be surprised that I would do it considering that is something you normally do at a younger age. I have always wanted to, but never had the money until I saved up enough from my tips from waiting tables at the Chili's I work at this past/current school year. I did it because I basically don't have anything linking me to my biological father's family other than the last name. They are all stuck up and prudes. I was wanting advice though about how to explain to people when I go back home about this to where it isn't telling your lifestory and not just "because I wanted to," in fear of seeming smug. A lot of my old friends from high school times will be shocked and probably not understand, remembering how I wanted to back then and they thought it was dumb (all of their parents are still together).