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[quote=Anonymous]I sympathize with your husband, but it does seem like it would be a lot of effort and you will have to explain this to everyone (work, friends, professional colleagues), who will all be curious (or nosy) about the change.  So it seems like there will be a long period of really reliving it or trying to brush it off.  If you're okay with that, I could see it working, but honestly I think it would cause more emotional pain to be confronted by others constantly as to why everyone changed their names.  And people can be annoying/persistent about this stuff.

I have two colleagues that changed last names due to family alienation/issues (both women who took their mom's maiden names) and people harass them into getting at least minor details when they find out.  So at least once a week or so, the subject comes up because someone tells someone else what is perceived to be an interesting nugget of info and then my colleagues have to come up with something.  And these name changes took place decades ago![/quote]

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