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[quote=Anonymous]Not all traditions are worth keeping.

I kept my name because it was mine.  Ironically, it is my father’s last name and he split when I was six, but still, that name is part of my identity.  I had it not only as a child and a teenager in my hometown, but as an adult through college and professional school and into the working world.  I worked very hard to own it, and to have people associate positive traits with it, as they did with me as a person (separate from the name). I did not want to jettison that sense of identity and all the work and personal history that went with it.  My spouse had no expectation that I’d take his name — we had one very brief discussion about it prior to our wedding, and that was that.  My children have my husband’s name and so in my direct family line, my last name dies with me — nothing hyphenated, no middle names.   The engagement ring, which wasn’t ridiculously expensive, serves as my wedding band too.  Some traditions are simply relics; treasure to some, but by no means to all. [/quote]

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