I get that if I was Miss Smith, say, and got married to Mr Brown, if I changed my name I would be Mrs Brown.
But if I didn't change it... would I ever be called Mrs Smith? Or would it just be Ms Smith from then on?
Just curious
Thank you
Lydia
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No, you aren't Mrs. unless you take his surname.
So you will be Ms. only.
Just a consequence of your choice!
Anonymous
Your (somewhat antiquated) "social" title would be Mrs. Brown, yes.
However, you could still go by Ms. Smith.
Mrs. Smith, however, would be your mother, assuming she married your father.
Marissssssssaxd
I'm pretty sure that it would be Ms. Smith because Mrs. Smith technically would be your mom.
Anonymous
My mother does that (UK), calling herself Mrs [her maiden name]. But it causes havoc with other things for example bank accounts, mortage, loans, booking holidays as a family is harder, passports sometimes go to the wrong place, often if one of us (husband or kids) signs for a package for her they will say "Hey, you're not her family!" and apologise and drive back to the post office regardless of what we say.
Pretty much every legal/official thing we do is a real pain in the *** because of it. Even school reports were messed up frequently, and she often didn't receive invitations to parents evenings and such - they assumed my father was a widower.
The cow goes 'Shazoo!'
Where I live (province of Quebec, Canada), woman have no choice but keeping their maiden name when they marry. It's like that since 1981. I thought they did it to look open to women's right and all, but no, they did it to save time on name-changing paperwork! So here, all married women are Mrs. (Maiden name). It kind of sucks because I would have wanted to take my husband's last name.