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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
Message-ID: <11302@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Aug-85 14:30:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug 31 14:30:00 1985
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> 
>     I kept my own name when I got married.  I offered to either change
>     names or hyphenate if (and only if) my husband would do the same.  He
>     wouldn't so I didn't.
> 
You have a 50 50 chance of winding up divorced.  Those are the statistics, like
it or not.  There are many reasons for failing marriages, why do you bother to
create a problem out of a last name.  There will be many many problems that crop
up without your help.  Serious, real, life threatening, marriage threatening,
problems.  Was life so problem free that you took a trivial issue and created a
problem out of it at the beginning of your marriage so you could have something
to debate about for years to come?  Good luck sister, you'll need it.