Changing addresses is a PITA!

[MineralMan]

13. My late mother never got it, somehow.

She always introduced both wives by adding my family name to her name. I suppose she disapproved of keeping one's birth name, but she never said anything about it. She just ignored it and went on as if they had changed their names. Fortunately, both wives thought that was hilarious and never minded.

I never thought it made any sense to change one's last name when you got married. Somehow, it always smacked of a patriarchal society to me. Marriage is a partnership, not an ownership relationship, I think. I know that keeping one's birthname is frowned upon by some, but who cares, really?

I never could see how it mattered.