I'm sorry, but how do you envision this discussion going? My boyfriend and I have talked about it and it went kind of like this:

I would have done it the other way so that your name would have gotten passed down.

The fact that you would be insulted if your wife didn't take your name is kind of gross. My love, dedication, and commitment to a man and OUR family isn't dependent on whether I take his name, or adopt a crucial part of his identity at the expense of my own. The symbolism of taking your husband's name isn't just…

What I don't like about the assumption of women changing their last name is like why should do the lady have to do the work of getting her name changed and the dude do nothing? For me, it's either we both change our name or neither of us do.

So, I kind of would want my kids to have my last name, but I wouldn't mind if they have their father's name. Here's the weird thing though: my family is eastern European, so I have a patronymic (a variation of my father's name) as my middle name. It was definitely weird growing up in the US having a weird middle name…

People get on my case, but it really does kind of irk me when women take their husband's name, because in like 90% of situations when I ask why the answer ranges from "it's just what people do" to "wait, why wouldn't you do it?" My own mother took my dad's last name and when I recently asked her about it she said "I…

Kind of surprised WV isn't the pepperoni roll. Whatever, I like slawdogs.

inconvenient?? How the fuck is it inconveniencing her?

I hate my name. It's a stupid name, and it sounds stupid with my first name. My boyfriend has like the best name in the world that would sounds awesome with my name, but I cannot stomach the thought of changing my shitty last name to his awesome one. It may be a stupid name, but it's MY name! I hate hate the tradition…

I came up with this new game, it's called Weed Pong. You put a joint in every cup, when you hit the cup you take a hit. The winner is the last player who can remember that they're playing a game.

has anyone read her advice to any kind of tattoo question? She is soooo judgmental. She basically spends the entire paragraph railing against tattoos and then, finally, probably only because her editor was like "you gotta actually give this person advice" she spews some sort of halfhearted bs answer like "well, I…

what is M&S?

When I started dating my boyfriend, I used to sometimes slip a sexy thong into my purse and then change into it if I thought sex might be happening in the next hour. Now I just try to not wear the underwear with the period stains.

OMG, where can I get that? I am a Jew with an unholy love for Christmas.

do you have recommendations for reasonably priced, comfortable, butt-covering underoos?

Do the cramps get better?

Well said. I am lucky and I try to acknowledge and appreciate it as much as I can. I don't see why I should feel guilty, but the fact is other people talk about their problems not to make me feel guilty. I don't feel guilty that I am healthy when my friend is sick. I don't feel guilty that my parents are alive when…

I am in a very similar situation. My parents are completely self-made, and when I was young we were quite poor. They paid in full for my private and my sister's private undergrad, and helped with my grad school. I have a lot of friends and my boyfriend who are not as lucky. They are battling through their student debt…

can we make an IUD It Gets Better Project?

It started maybe about a year ago, and I just used regular toilet paper. I started using wipes because I noticed it was becoming painful to use the regular tp. My doctor told me there was nothing wrong, I tried taking vitamin supplements, and using diaper rash ointment to make it less painful. But the switch to wipes…