August 2010 Weddings
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For ladies who changed their last name
In the almost a year post below, someone mentioned how easy it was for her to adjust to her new last name.
For me, it was really hard---I felt like I was having an identity crisis until about December. It was so weird (and I still feel kind of guilty about it). I kept feeling so disconnected and like I had to rediscover who I was---I'm such a drama queen. Eventually, I adjusted but I was surprised by how long it took.
What was your experience?
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Re: For ladies who changed their last name
It was super easy for me, except when I had to initial things I always messed up! Once in a blue moon on the phone I will forget and say Lindsay Maiden name, but very rarely.
I had no problem. *shrug*
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I might've been the one who mentioned it was an easy change (?)
The thing is, I made a conscious effort to train my brain, because right at first, (like the first few weeks/month) I kept slipping up. I mean, you're one name for your whole life and then in a second you're another one, so you have to re-train your hand to write you name, and your brain to identify with your new name when it's spoken to you...
But, I wanted to do these things, because it has always been important to me to change my name when I got married to make one unified family name. Just MO.
I kept my maiden name as my stage name, because that's the name I have on record with my union, and all of my press and credits are under that name. But now it feels weird when I see my maiden name in a professional setting!
Did you not want to change your name, and maybe thats why you had some struggles??
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My name doesn't make who I am, so I didn't feel any different. I love being called by my married name, but our future children will all have my maiden as their middle because I love my maiden name soooo freaking much. Like Branz though, it was important to change my name.
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I did have a bit of a difficult time changing my name for a few reasons. One of them is that I really like my maiden name because I am 100% German heritage, and my maiden name obviously reflected that. My family's heritage has always been important to me and my family, so it took a long time for me to finally decide to take DH's last name. Even now, I have two middle names and my maiden is one of them since I changed it.
I did have a bit of an identity crisis, and I still find myself signing my maiden name sometimes. I've now switched all of my documents except one credit card because it expires this summer, so I didn't feel like going through all of that (and it just keeps slipping my mind). It was a pain to have to pay to change my passport, too, but I guess that's part of it.
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