I love you.

OMG THIS

Preach!

How can she eat and drink all that crap and still look so good????

Use a slow cooker. If you have a job and no time for all this (and no grill because NYC).

THIS

Blerg. Where do you live?

I’m both curious, and judging TBH.

blech

WHAT? I am in HR and that sounds totally made up. WTF.

No one who has an easy to spell/pronounce name is allowed to opine on this. You have NO idea what a pain it can be.

I have my maternal grandmother’s “maiden” name as my middle name. It was her last name but is also a first name, so it doesn’t sound weird.

You’re right, logically, but emotionally, if you hate your family of origin, I totally support you changing your name or whatever makes you feel better.

One of those? SMH

You see it both ways in the wedding pages of the NYT. Some couples where you’re like, girl, forget principles, nice job getting rid of that un-spellable name! Others where you’re like, yeah, feminism is good, but you missed the chance to change your name to Kennedy????

That’s the thing, there is no perfect solution. Except for my friend whose last name is Sun married a guy whose last name is Sun. They totally win.

LOL

My dad is an only child and my mom one of five, so I got dad’s last name out of fairness. I must say, I never thought it was weird growing up that mom and I did not have the same last name. It just was how it was. OTOH, both our names start with Mc, and we look VERY alike, so there weren’t any cross-cultural issues in…

Could you combine your names into something new? I know a few friends who gave the girls mom’s last name and boys dad’s last name.

What a jackass. UGH.