Changing your name is a huge decision. It seems like more and more young women are sticking with their given surname after marriage instead of automatically changing it to their husband’s, and I’m totally here for it. I really like the name I was blessed with, and I probably wouldn’t change it unless I got …
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Mom forces 6-year-old daughter to change her last name to her stepfather’s after her father’s passing, refuses to pay to change it back when she turns 18 even though she
I think it was the late great songwriter Stephen Sondheim who said it best: «Careful the things you sayChildren will listenCareful the things you doChildren will see and learnChildren may not obey, but children will listenChildren will look to you for which way to turnTo learn what to beCareful before you say,,»Listen to me»Children will …
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Pushy mother pressures pregnant daughter-in-law to give her baby her maiden name despite nobody in the family using it: ‘I raised you he didn’t’
Names can carry with them big expectations. When you name your child, you begin to set them up for a certain kind of life. Of course, you can overcome a bad name, but it is something to overcome. People carry a lot of baggage when it comes to names. Certain first names might make you …
Seguir leyendo Pushy mother pressures pregnant daughter-in-law to give her baby her maiden name despite nobody in the family using it: ‘I raised you he didn’t’
Dad insists on naming baby Nigel despite mom hating the name, won’t take no for an answer: ‘He said if we didn’t name him Nigel, he would still call him that’
Not all bad names are newfangled. It’s easy to make fun of millennial parents for naming their kids after Harry Potter characters or adding an -eigh to the end of every name, but sometimes the worst names are the oldest ones in the book. Who could forget that Reddit post where a guy found out …
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‘I don’t want a different last name than our kids’: Ex-husband insists ex-wife change her last name because it makes his 24-year-old fiancée uncomfortable
I have no idea how I’d feel if I changed my last name. My full name has such a great ring; I couldn’t imagine wanting to change it to something else. But if I was in love and didn’t want to go to the hyphenated side of town, I might do it to have the …
Seguir leyendo ‘I don’t want a different last name than our kids’: Ex-husband insists ex-wife change her last name because it makes his 24-year-old fiancée uncomfortable
‘I think both are just trying to overpower the other one at this point’: Wife wants to name daughter ‘hippy name,’ is shut down by traditionalist husband
Names are incredibly important. They’re your first impression of someone- the first thing they’re going to associate with you. We all have associations with names, good and bad. For example, I could never trust someone named Bridget, but I have good things to say about every Gloria I’ve ever known. Johns are extremely hit or …
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The Most Baffling Baby Names from Around The Internet
What’s in a name? It contains far more than just our government-recognized identity. Have you ever met a Jeff that really feels like George? Or a Katherine that could never be a Katy but is definitely a Kat? Names have powerful association and are not to be doled out recklessly. I’m all for naming your …
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Podcast Bro Refuses to Marry Girlfriend Because She Wants a Double-Barreled Surname, Faces the Wrath of Twitter
There are a lot of things to consider when you decide you want to get married, and they don’t just involve what you want to do about the wedding. In many ways, even just thinking about this ultimate commitment can bring up challenges in a relationship. As such an ingrained tradition, many people have some …
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Redditors Share Seemingly Normal Names That Are the Most Unfortunate in Other Languages
Names can be tricky things. They are one of the first metrics that other people use to judge us, and it’s not like we needed any more reasons for that to happen. As if there wasn’t enough responsibility placed on parents, choosing what to name a kid can really make or break how they experience …
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A Kooky Bunch of Name Soundalikes That Come From the Most Unexpected Places
Names are an important thing. After what we look like, they are the first impression that we give everybody else that we meet. All it takes is one unfortunate mishearing or a pair of particularly unsympathetic parents, and we’re stuck with a moniker that we can’t shake off no matter how hard we try. When …
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