honeybeegood

Walter just came up with an excellent compromise. We’re both changing our names to Badass. Or Motherfucker. We can’t decide. Mr. And Mrs. Motherfucker has a nice ring to it, I think.

I tend to use “pants” as a term of endearment that my family and bf tease me about. I call my bf’s mom;s cat pearl “mc pearl pants” I told my bf we should change our last name to “pant” when we get married so when we go places we could be the “pants,” but he frowned upon this idea. /sadface

I am a definite feminist. Yay equality. I decided a long time ago not to change my name. To echo many other posters it’s my identity. I’m not even cool enough to be Dr. Good or Good Esq. It came up in conversation with a long term ex-bf once, and he was incredibly offended I wouldn’t change my name. It never occurred to me that a potential husband would mind. I wasn’t asking him to change his name. Lol. Silly little bee!

My current awesome bf initially said he might care a smidge even though he would want me to be happy, and he understood where I was coming from. Then 5 minutes later he was like “well it would be silly to expect me to change my name, so I’m not sure why I’d be upset if you didn’t change yours. I take it back.”

My mom has a horrendously long maiden name and was happy to take my dads. They were divorced for 12 years or so when she married my step-dad. She ended up keeping my dad’s last name for a year cause she didn’t want to go through the hassle of name change. (I was 22 so she didn’t care about “family name.”)Then she felt like a dick for having another dude’s name so she changed it. Oddly my cool step-dad didn’t seem to mind either way.

I only have 2 married friends yet I mistakenly call them by their maiden names pretty much ever time I refer to them. I’ve known them both forever though. I swear I’m not purposefully being a jerk!

I have a first name that can be pronounced 2 ways and I have the opposite problem? of many people here. Everyone I encounter is super polite and ask “is it x or y?” and I’m like “well my mom calls me x, but I don’t really mind either way.” This blows peoples minds. I’m sorry people are so mean on other name corrections. = <