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You might not realize it, but it sounds like you want to own your family. Take a step out from your feelings and really consider what it is you want, more objectively. It's not that you want to share one name, it's that you want to brand everyone else in your family with your last name. It's possessive in the truest sense of the word. [/quote]

Thanks.

You could make the case that the traditional way of doing things is inherently possessive. If all of society realized this simultaneously and changed the norm of women changing their names, I wouldn't insist on it. It just bugs me to be in the 2% of men who don't have this.

It is a shame to me that most of my friends and all of my extended family have one family name and I don't. [/quote]

It can't possibly be 2%. In my DS's Kindergarten classroom, it's about half and half. Are you really such an outlier? If it's REALLY the case, I can see why you might feel awkward, but I'm really, really shocked that this could be the case.[/quote]

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