re: Women not changing last name after marriage

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If you don't truly know the person you marrying and the fact they didn't take your name is a huge red flag. Then you probably have no business marrying them in the first place.

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Not married. Got it.

Sometimes people you think you know surprise you. Relationships are almost always wonderful at the start, and many people behave very differently once they get years into a relationship.

You should not sneer at something as symbolically important as this in a relationship. It isn't the cause of a difference so much as the first major opportunity for a man to see where he really falls in his bride to be's priority list. It does place her father's name above her husband's name in importance if she retains it and shuns her husband's.