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Originally Posted by GTAlphaPhi
I've always wondered, especially with the rise of same-sex marriages, how to deal with last names? While I know many same-sex spouses (gay and lesbian), all of them kept their own names.
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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Originally Posted by pshsx1
One of my friends is engaged and I think he plans on taking his fiancee's name.
I don't think there's any standard with last names in same-sex relationships nearly as much as male-female ones. It's just do what you want, I guess.
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My friends in Phoenix have been together for 10 years. They've never told us what to call them, but we have a three couple group that vacation together, etc. and the other two couples call them either "The Boys" or their last names hyphenated, ie. The Brown-Smiths or The Smith-Browns depending on which order you felt like putting it in at the time. I don't think they care in the least.
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