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As I announced last week, I recently got married.

Initially, my mind was made up about not changing my last name. I've had this one for 14 years. My real estate license and my business are both under my current name.

I chose my current last name after a divorce. I took my brother and sister's last name. And let's face it, not changing my name requires zero effort.

Yesterday, though I felt maybe I should reconsider. So I started praying (as I hadn't yet).

This morning I thought how weird would it be to become a Christian yet not call yourself by Christ's name? But instead, keep your old identity.

Biblically, the hierarchy is Christ, Husband, then Wife. By not taking my husband's name, am I saying I don't respect the Biblical hierarchy?

I am independent. I've had no choice but to be so. I realize there's some weird sense of safety in not changing my name.

But I'm no longer convinced my reasoning is valid, or Biblical.

Thoughts?

🇺🇲 watson :dealwithit:

@Truther
told the [late] hubby that i would not be changing my last name, not because i was independent or anything like that. it was because i didn't want to go through the hassle of changing everything to the new last name.
on his death bed, he asked me to change my last name to his, and gave me that innocent puppy look.
i changed the last name.
took me ten months to get everything updated.