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[RainDog]

29. I kept my maiden name

and, when both my kids were born, my family begged me to put my husband's name as mine so that people wouldn't think my children were bastards.

I was... wtf.

I happen to live where keeping your last name wasn't odd - they were living in a situation where they couldn't imagine that a women would keep her last name... even tho it was done all the time.

and even if not - why would I care if someone was so small minded that they would speculate on my married state? those who knew me knew and so what about anyone else? I guess they were worried about any announcements or... I think they really just wanted to express how "unnatural" it was that I would not want to take someone else's name.

I couldn't believe they would go to such lengths to insult someone who thought her last name was good enough to keep her entire life. my dad, however, never said anything. my kids have my family name as their middle names and he later thanked me for that. I guess that's why he never said anything...