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Originally Posted by GTAlphaPhi
Are any of you part of or know of same-sex marriages where one took the other's name, or somehow combined it? How do you/they decide who's name will be the family name? Since it's same-sex, there isn't the "man's-name-is-the-family-name" tradition because either they're both men, or in the case of a lesbian marriage, no men.
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It's really no different than what has been said in most of the posts in this thread. They decided whether they want to legally keep their last names, hyphenate, or take one of the mate's last names. As for the latter, similar to opposite sex couples, same-sex couples often have a spouse who is considered the more dominant based on gender ideologies, power and status, or family background.
The "man's-name-is-the-family-name" tradition is dumb as far as I'm concerned.