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In reply to the discussion: Have You Ever Wanted to Change Your Name? [View all]MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)My given names, first-middle-last, is 26 letters long. It was a lot of name for a little kid. I didnt like having the first name of Jennifer...there were SO many of us in the 60s and 70s it seemed. My parents called me Jenny and so did close friends but when I got older, I grew into Jennifer and didnt welcome the nickname Jenny at all....it felt way too personal....and still does. In fact, my husband of 25 years just started to sneak Jenny into his personal lexicon which feels so weird to me. I changed my last name when I got married...and wish I hadnt. It was a big deal to my then fiancé and now husband...it seemed like an unreasonable request to me at the time...to expect someone to just drop their last name. We work together now in a business that we own and I use my maiden name at work because I dont want to be known as just the wife...I want to be recognized as an individual in my own right. This is a very interesting thread!