I was raised very conservatively and was told that was what I needed to do. Now I want to change my last name, but it's expensive and time-consuming. When I was younger, I did a bunch of things that ...

In the early days of our engagement, one of my favorite ways to tease my husband was to come up with new last names we could take when we got married. I would joke that rather than taking his last ...

In my predominantly Italian hometown of Staten Island, New York, you were Irish if your last name didn't end in a vowel. And if you weren't Irish, you were other. I fell squarely into that category.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: I kept my birth name when I got married 10 years ago. However, my parents insist on calling me “Mrs. Husband’s Last Name.” They’ve used a variety of excuses -- they were being ...

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have been happily married for 12 years. We have a beautiful family -- a 12-year-old daughter and a 10-year-old son. My husband is not close with his side of the family. We ...