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Hannelore Elicott-Chatham - The First Relationship
Omega Entity:
I had a boss whose first namesounded like but was a different spelling of Sierra, and after her divorce decided to change her last name to Nevada. It's like she said "fuck it, I'm gonna be a mountain range dammit".
anahata:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Aug 2015, 00:04 ---It's easier in the UK
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Yup. I know a Starksfield and Wood who married and became Starkwood, which seems to me much nicer and more interesting than either of the original names.
Welu:
I wish I had a name that combined nicely.
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 24 Aug 2015, 00:04 ---It's easier in the UK: your name as an adult is simply what you say it is. Having an official document (deed poll) to back it up is helpful for some purposes, and free. (There are extra steps to be taken in the case of children, as one might expect.)
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I believe it is the case, for marriages, that your name is what you say it is in SD County. But the kicker here is that if both persons change a part of their name, they have to change it to the same thing.
So Bob David Greene and Sara Margaret Wolfe can be Bob David Greenewolfe and Sara Margaret Greenewolfe or Bob David Stormaggedon and Sara Margaret Stormaggedon. If Sara wants to keep her family name, that seems allowed, so Bob David Greene and Sara Wolfe Greene is ok.
But Bob Greene Wolfe and Sara Wolfe Greene would not be okay because changes were made by both parties and they both did not make the same changes. That's the logic that was enforced. She changed her last name and middle name. Had he changed nothing that would be okay. But if he changes anything, it has to match what she changed, and vice versa. Seems silly as hell, to me.
With relevance to the question of people combining names, he seems to find it embarrassing as hell that his middle name contains Anne, so the point still stands. I'm probably being judgemental, but that seems to knock a bit of shine off of the gesture. Why take her name, if you aren't going to be happy to have it?
Morituri:
For what it's worth, I think Hanners has some incredibly good relationships going.
With Dale and Marigold and Momo, and Faye, and Marten, and Winslow, and Station, and Dora, and Pintsize, and even maybe soon May .... I mean, come on. A whole bunch of people who think the world of her and act to make things better for her - and she for them as well. Her relationships with her domineering mother and distant, obsessive-but-brilliant father may be rocky at times, but there's no question that they care about her and respect her.
Seriously, look at it. That's a lot of really good relationships. That's a lot of care and respect and mutual emotional support and people doing good for each other. It's different, but it's not worse.
And besides. Hanners is Hanners. She wants what she wants and fears what she fears, and has to live with that. For the time being and possibly all of the foreseeable future, romance would be too big and scary and if it went as far as, say, holding hands, creepily unsanitary.
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