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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same. I especially enjoy when they send a birthday check to me (as if I'm 12) and the check is made out to my first name and then married last name.

Can't imagine why they care.  I was married at age 29, therefore my professional life and colleagues know me as my maiden name.  [/quote]

Simple solution.  Just don't deposit the check if the name on it offends you so much.  I'm not defending your parents but I can't imagine why this name thing is so upsetting to you.  [/quote]

It's upsetting because her parents are repeatedly refusing to call her by her name.  And it's absurd to say they don't remember it -- they called her that name for the first 18+ years of her life.  All they have to do is continue to call her the same name she's had since birth.  They are her parents.  It's not unreasonable to expect them to remember her name.  If you've never had people refuse to use your name and insist on calling you by the wrong name, you likely can't imagine why it's upsetting, but just imagine that you asked your family just started calling you by a nickname you did not like, you asked them not to use that nickname, but they had a million excuses why they somehow couldn't remember not to use this nickname that wasn't even from your childhood.

Also, neither the OP nor the PP are raging or crying or freaking out.  [/quote]

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