TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

Do they take both names?

This happened in my family, to me, and yes. My middle and last names are my parents last names. Another person I know took the hyphenated version of their parents last names.

We decided our daughter would take my name because my wife's brother had two sons that would continue her family name. And considering my daughter is queer, it's not all that likely she's going to have a kid anyway. Not that we knew that at the time (although I used to joke that I hoped she would be because I wouldn't have to worry about her getting pregnant as a teen).

Edited to clarify.

Canadian weddings sounds interesting.

I've always thought it was weird, the wife changes her name.
But in your situation? That's the perfect reason to do it.
You could also wear matching outfits every day! Like Jean and Gene from The Umbrella Academy season 4

my wife and I never got married

I'm assuming you mean you never had a ceremony?

Aren't you automatically married by common law in Canada after a certain number of years? I seem to remember that was the case with my uncle and his wife. But he eventually had to marry her because she's German and she couldn't get a long-term visa so he could work in the states when he was allowed to return. He dodged the Vietnam war draft. When Clinton allowed people like him to return, he got a job at the Library of Congress. Quite ironic.

Meanwhile, she continued to get paid for Canadian work because she was a professor at the (at the time) by-mail only Athabasca University.

If Uncle Sam was expecting them to stick around, they didn't. They moved back to Saskatoon after he retired. Canada treated him very well. He happened to be pursuing a folklore degree right at the time the Canadian government realized they needed folklorists to help preserve various cultures within their borders.

Sorry for rambling. I need more sleep apparently.

The joke is on her. She had to go through the trouble of changing it back after the divorce :)

That always sounded like a huge pain in the ass to me. People are so unrealistic about marriage so often though. It might end. Many marriages do. Don't do something stupid as if it never will to make things harder on you later.

I knew a guy who had his wife's name tattooed in huge letters on his neck. What a dumb thing to do.

My wife's first name and my last name would sound really awkward together, which is the main reason why she kept hers and why it never bothered me that she did.

It is annoying to have to explain to people at places like hospitals that we're married even though we have different last names.

I read the comment in his slimy “Brunt- FCA” tone the way he addresses Quark. I loved him already but seeing this just makes him so much more respectable and admirable.

Heartwarming is a lovely way to put it.

We'll have none of that, Steve Billssonturnoffandonner.

And don't marry a man who insists you take his. That's a wall of control he's building around you and he won't stop until he's separated you from everyone and everything you love. Marry the man who accepts it's your choice to decide, along with every other decision about yourself.

I took my wife's name when we got married. I hate my family and intended to change my last name anyway. Her family is awesome. It was an easy choice.

If you haven't yet, some day you'll find your Mr. TheDead (if that's your thing)

I'm Spanish (we don't change names after marriage there), and my (British) partner wants to take my name. Rationally I know that's typical in the UK. But subconsciously, I feel like the people who share last names are siblings. I don't want to feel like my partner and I are siblings, that's so weird!!