Changing last names

Ginger · 11-06-2013, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by honeybarbara

I'm not saying every case is. but again, I wanna hear from the butches: who of you areore than happy to take a femme's last name instead of the other way round. cause it's pretty rare to read that they'd want that. instead they'd be "honoured" to have the femme take their name. I'm NOT saying that we shouldn't have a choice but I AM saying if it really honestly was, like poeplemkeep saying, just having the same name, it would NOT be so lopsided.

I'm only going from what I see one the boards. my personal life resembles nothing close to "the dance" on the boards here. for example I only know about four butches (I mean those that I actually know in person) who use "he." one uses "they". the rest I know in person use she.

almost none of them believe in marriage. I think I'm one of a rare handfew that has.

so I am presently ONLY speaking to what I see on the boards. and that's butches very rarely take femmes last names. so it can't possibly be just because it's to share a name only. otherwise there would be a greater number taking femme's names.

but f course everyone is exempt from thinking about it. If anybody wants to just consider me a dick and dismiss what I'm saying, that's fine too. I'm going to step out of this convo here as I don't think anything I've said is going to be heard aside from accusing people of misogyny. no worries. I don't mind being fairly alone in my corner of thought. and I mean no disrespect to peoples marriages.

carry on. and all that.

I hear you and I think your logic is sound and your question is valid and it's something that I'm wondering about too.

Bard · 11-06-2013, 09:53 PM

We have friends that have been together for quite a while one of them came into the relationship with a child from a former marriage they also have child from AI that the more butch of the two carried. When they got married the butch took the femmes last name her married name so that now the whole family has the same name. Yes if Desd had wanted me to take her name I would have considered it my only reason for not wishing to would have been that I am the only of my fathers children to carry his last name. I was moved to tears when Desd want to take my last name

DapperButch · 11-06-2013, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Bard

We have friends that have been together for quite a while one of them came into the relationship with a child from a former marriage they also have child from AI that the more butch of the two carried. When they got married the butch took the femmes last name her married name so that now the whole family has the same name. Yes if Desd had wanted me to take her name I would have considered it my only reason for not wishing to would have been that I am the only of my fathers children to carry his last name. I was moved to tears when Desd want to take my last name

Well then you best have a baby with your name or it will be all for naught!

I have a friend who took his wife's name (cis male), as her family name would have died out if he did not. They had twin boys, so all is good (assuming the twins keep their last name and procreate).

girl_dee · 11-06-2013, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Bard

We have friends that have been together for quite a while one of them came into the relationship with a child from a former marriage they also have child from AI that the more butch of the two carried. When they got married the butch took the femmes last name her married name so that now the whole family has the same name. Yes if Desd had wanted me to take her name I would have considered it my only reason for not wishing to would have been that I am the only of my fathers children to carry his last name. I was moved to tears when Desd want to take my last name

and you know what i love? that you would have been just fine if she didn't.

bright_arrow · 11-06-2013, 11:34 PM

I have a big family - while my sister and I are child-less at the moment, I have plentyyyyy of cousins that share my [maiden] last name. I took her last name because I didn't have a stance on it one way or the other, so the fact that it would make her happy if I did do it - why not? I also feel that it would blend/unify our families, and I wanted our future child[ren] to have it as well. While they would be linked biologically to me, they would also be connected to her not because she will be there to raise them, but because the name will be passed on to.

If someone disagrees with my logic, that's perfectly okay, because it is what it is and my family is awesome

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