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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I kept my name because I am a feminist and it is ridiculous to expect me to change my name. Kids are hyphenated last names. DH didn’t want to, I insisted - they are my kids as well as his. I think the whole thing about hyphenated last names being “too long” is defensive - if you have a long last name like Richardson, you don’t think of it as burdensome. I’m not saying you should hyphenate, just that “too long” is not a reasonable excuse - just own that you don’t want to hyphenate.[/quote] The problem isn’t that Richardson is too long. It is that both names are as long as Richardson or longer. Then it become unwieldy, and if they rhyme it is worse. Think Gonzalez- Abramowitz. Or Richardson-MacPherson. Or Bradford-Von Thurstenburgh. They are not all Smith-Cho. [/quote]
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