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[–]NDG[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Because it's not mine. It doesn't say anything about my family or my history. My mom didn't change her name either, so I didn't grow up with the idea that changing your name when you got married was "what everyone did." I don't care what other people do with their names, but it's always seemed really arbitrary to me.

Besides, all of my everything - driver's license, degrees, professional license - is in my own name. And my husband's dad's side is pretty dysfunctional.