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LGBT- Name change with marriage?

It is typically the norm in society for a wife to automatically take her husband's name, with some women keeping their own name or hyphenating to combine the two names.

Same sex couples are not bound by this for obvious reasons, but what do we do? Or what have some couple who have married done? Do you hyphenate? Blend the last names to create something new? Pick one of the names you both like? Keep your own names?

I'm curious what people think.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    One of the best things about being gay is you do not need to following society's rules about anything. You do what works for the two of you as a couple.

    I my case my husband and I hyphenate but in different order with each of use keeping our unmarried last name first.

    As in:

    John Smith and Tom Brown got married and became John Smith-Brown and Tom Brown-Smith

  • 1 decade ago

    Changing your last name is more of a legal thing then anything else. You can take your SO last name and change yours to a middle name, hyphen it, blend etc.

    Its completely up to the people in the relationship. If one person is more attached to their last, then change it to theirs.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    If his last name was better than mine (which is a given.. anything is better than my last name), I'd take his. Unless they sounded good together, then I'd hyphenate.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    i imagine that marriage regularly is really damaged. With a 50% divorce cost...i do not quite comprehend what heterosexuals are clinging to the following... i imagine that Civil Unions could be utilized to each person. adult adult males and adult adult males, women human beings and women human beings, adult adult males and women human beings could then get those Civil Unions which could assure them their federal rights as a pair. Then...those with non secular leanings could get marriages. and seeing that the church and state are (or could be) separated, church homes could verify even if to provide non secular marrages. *sigh* Marriage in the eyes of religion and marriage in the eyes of the regulation are 2 very very diverse issues. maximum of the "marriage protectors" do not quite comprehend this, and subsequently attempt to ruin our civil liberties, even as quite we do not desire any area of their divine bullshit. That way, each person could get what they prefer. Gays could get their advantages, and homophobes could nevertheless have their personal little particular echelon. Marriage...ha!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I wanna change my last name to Frost

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