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Study: Men Are Viewed As More Feminine If Their Wives Don’t Take Their Last Name

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Via Springer Publishing:

When a woman chooses not to take her husband’s surname after marriage, people perceive her husband as being higher in traits related to femininity and lower in traits related to masculinity. He is also perceived as having less power in the relationship. This is according to a study led by Rachael Robnett of the University of Nevada in the US. The research is published in Springer’s journal Sex Roles and is the first to examine whether people’s perceptions of a man’s personality vary depending on whether his wife adopts his surname or retains her own.

The tradition of women adopting their husbands’ surname after marriage is arguably one of the most widespread gender-role norms in Western cultures. In recent decades, it has gained attention from feminist scholars who want to understand why the surname tradition remains widely endorsed despite marked changes in the role that women play in society and in the labor force.

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According to previous studies, women who violate the marital surname tradition are viewed differently from others. They are described in terms of instrumental traits that in a gendered society are typically assigned to men. These include having a higher status, yielding more power, being more self-focused, ambitious and assertive. These traits contrast with the expressive characteristics that are typically assigned to women, such as being more nurturing, kind and having less influence and power.

To date, researchers have not yet examined how a woman’s marital surname choice influences how others perceive her husband. To this end, Robnett and her colleagues carried out three studies in the US and UK. The first two studies showed that husbands whose wives keep their own surnames are often described through terms that are counter to the gender-typical personality traits and power framework used for men. They are described in more expressive than instrumental terms, and are seen to hold less power in a marriage.

“A woman’s marital surname choice therefore has implications for perceptions of her husband’s instrumentality, expressivity, and the distribution of power in the relationship,” says Robnett. “Our findings indicate that people extrapolate from marital surname choices to make more general inferences about a couple’s gender-typed personality traits.”

Results from the third study conducted by Robnett’s team suggest that people are not unanimous in how they think about such cases. People who firmly hold on to traditional gender roles and can be described as hostile sexists react particularly strongly to a man whose wife retains her surname because they see him as being disempowered.

“We know from prior research that people high in hostile sexism respond negatively to women who violate traditional gender roles,” says Robnett. “Our findings show that they also apply stereotypes to nontraditional women’s husbands.”

“This study joins several others in alluding to a link between traditions in heterosexual romantic relationships and power structures favoring men,” says Robnett. “The marital surname tradition is more than just a tradition. It reflects subtle gender-role norms and ideologies that often remain unquestioned despite privileging men.”

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118 thoughts on “Study: Men Are Viewed As More Feminine If Their Wives Don’t Take Their Last Name”

  1. That mangina with the sign looks like he’s wearing makeup.
    That baby looks all black so they must’ve adopted her….but the bun in the oven? Let’s wait and see lol.

      4. That’s a birdwalk,mongoloid. Subhumans anot an extant species but a mere figure of speech.
        I thought was a site for manly men, not Aryan buttboiz.

      6. Are we all one species with different races? doubtful. Nobody is better or worse but surely if we were animals we would be divided into 3 or 4 subspecies white ( including indians and middle easterners that aren’t mixed Africans ), East Asian and African with many mixed e.g. north africans many arabs and east africans and then the australasians may be seperate again.
        Its more political to call us one species than anything especially when we derive from different species e.g. africans not from Neanderthals and East asians are mixed with denisovans.
        We are different in all ways even basics of anatomy and hormone levels and skull shapes, immune systems, gut bacteria and anything else we can actually measure and even lived in naturally completely different ways in different groupings with different structures.
        I am not against anybody but we are hardly similar to each other with africans and east asians as different as lions and tigers. The fact we can interbreed doesn’t make us a species as so many fish species can interbreed and produce viable offspring so that was never a classifier.
        Effectively in any society there is little draw to mate between east asian men and black women for instance so that affectively wouldnt even happen so they effectively wouldn’t even mate when living in proximity so how they are considered not even separate subspecies is baffling? East Asian women rarely are attracted to black men and thats not culture they just claim not to feel anything even when with when these black business men marry them in china they often lack attraction to their husbands from what chinese women tell me.

        2. i think the definition of a species is it can interbreed and since humans can they are one species – many races – but let’s be smart here – a pitbull and a poodle are both dogs but every different and since there’s no equality between men, how can there be equality between men and women, let alone races…
          the whole argument goes back to slavery and even that had it’s roots in the simple fact that resources were more limited than human capital – slavery didn’t end out of heart felt sympathies, it ended because as technology increased, as a whole there were more resources available than humans to use them.
          now we are beginning to go back the other way and the future slave class is defining themselves with faggotry, tattoos, clown hair cuts and jailbird type attitudes.

      7. I do find black people very talented..especially in sports and music. They have their own way and are much easier to live with than middle eastern people. Asians on the other only know how to copy other peoples work. Everything ORIGINAL in science came from white people. That’s a fact. So if that is your measure perhaps you should qualify yourself as subhuman as well because compared to white people you are nothing.

    2. Yeah, the mega cuck with the black baby… hasn’t he noticed that someone stole his wife’s tits??

  2. I have a fucked up family history, so I don’t want my wife bearing any of my surnames.

      1. I would flat refuse to marry a woman who refused to change her name. It would be an obvious clue that you were dealing with a full blown harpy, and she would fight about EVERYTHING!
        Your marriage would be Introduction To Hell 101

        1. I hear ya. I discovered an ex plaything of mine recently married some cuck that actually took her name.
          Glad I got what I wanted (sweet flesh to defile) and moved on …

  3. Meh. I wouldn’t want a woman to take my last name. Seems incestuous. So long as my sons get my last name, daughters could take her last name. You White people don’t realize that Chinese wives don’t take their husbands’ last names ever. You Goy sure like leaving paperwork and getting the government’s snout involved. If White people weren’t so prim and proper when it comes to getting Uncle Sam involved, White families could be getting freebies through welfare and WIC but Big John Studd insists that his wymnz are branded with his surname and hence no welfare for his children but lots of freebies for Da’Quaaan’s children.

      1. If the government is offering free shit, it strikes me as stupid to hold your nose. Seems like it would be more masculine to spend time with your children instead of being a melodramtic martyr toiling away on TPS reports at the office.

        1. The “free shit” is offered to people who can’t provide for themselves. So you’re saying we should aspire to be poor so we can live off other people’s money? Yes very manly indeed

        2. The Putrid Bandaid – You’re a thieving cunt. No matter how you try to dress it up as clever and “sticking it to the system”, you’re just a low-life cunt taking from others, and far too much of a gutless fucking pussy to do the thieving yourself, so you let the local monopoly of force do it for you.
          You are a thieving cunt.

      2. You crackas are real dumb. I’ve seen Asian women going to the human affairs building in NYC to get food stamps. Think they’re really single mothers like the black women? Nope. They have a husband. They just don’t take his name and have no scruples about getting an extra thousand bucks a month or their family. But apparently White people would rather work at the office and let their kid rot in daycare. Oh well…

        1. just because live in a broken system forcing us to be away from our children to gain a living (not me however. Business owner with time to spend doing what I like when I like) that doesnt mean we should be proud of milking the state like some scummy 6 child family.

        2. You are dumb because you don’t realize how civilizations are built and maintained. Which just goes to confirm stereotypes, I guess.

        3. If anything this speaks volumes as to the character of white people. Everyone else is dipping their dirty hands into the cookie jar, and whites could be another statistic but choose not to.
          Integrity as a MOTHER FUCKER

        4. I agree, take what you can, it’s what your government does.
          Think of it as a tax rebate for those not wealthy enough to avoid all taxation.

        5. Sounds right to me. Asians from Hong Kong and China put their kids and wives into McMansions in Vancouver, and then declare the family to be low income due to not having income in Canada. They then access all sorts of welfare goodies, despite being millionaires.
          Still not as bad as those horrible south asians, though.

      3. Why not? The welfare state shouldn’t exist anyway. If you keep taking from it you are actively destroying it and bringing about it’s demise. So that means in the end no one will get the welfare, which is a good thing. I don’t see why not?

        1. I agree. Take what you can from the system because the system will keep taking from you until it collapses.

    3. “You White people don’t realize that Chinese wives don’t take their husbands’ last names ever.”
      What the f— does that have to do with anything? All it means is that you Asians lack one method of ferreting out beta males. Congratulations.

  4. Not taking each other’s names is called fucking strategy. I’ve known many cases and instances where Asian professors or post-docs will get their wives working in their own lab and the hiring board is never even made aware that they are married because the male is named something like Zhang Chen and the female is named Zixuan Zhou. Plausible deniability. Something Mr. Jingleheimersmith knows nothing about when demanding his wymnz take his last name. Yet who comes out ahead hmm?

      1. Believe it or not, some men actually want to spend time with their wives. Asians have a healthy and harmonious relationship. Only Westerners regard their wives as something to be ditched to go fishin’ and huntin’ with the boys.

    2. jesus christ, peast, why do you marry her then? And anyway, we are talking about western culture here, and in western culture, if you take womans surname you are as beta as one man can be. BETA CUCK. I would never take womans surname, i dont need so desperately to be with woman to take her surname.

  5. How dare Return of Kings keep throwing pies in the metaphorical face of Thomas Rhett’s progressive family unit! (yes that’s sarcasm)

    1. That’s who Thomas Rhett is???? Holy shit I knew a ton of women liked his music but he looks like a guy who likes getting pegged

  6. My alpha husband was really upset when I decided to keep my maiden name hyphenated with his…twenty five years ago. The reason I did it was we lived in a village where his name was common and he was having trouble receiving his mail as there were 3 or four other men with the same first and last name… given a common first name also my rare European last name insured no-one else received my mail. After I explained this to him he accepted it. Although the hyphenated name is cumbersome it has saved me many headaches with receiving courier packages and my legit mail.

    1. Cool, makes sense, but how often do you think you guys’ situation really applies to most people?

    3. “…….that’s not true because… ” he is cucked, his balls in your purse…..

      1. Hey Jensen,
        Don’t you know that Trump is a puppet of Federal Reserve?
        Just a random question for you

        1. so what? and it has what exactly to do this topic, much less there is nothing anyone can do about the whole govt thing, nor is anyone going to do anything about it.

      2. I read this site because I try to understand todays world. When I choose a hyphenated name decades ago it was out of necessity….I think there was even a woman with my first name and husbands last on my mail route. Because I try to understand, I now recognize a mans reaction to my hyphenated name, if immediate distaste, why it is so, and it hurts less.

        1. my first ex hyphenated her last name. she was a class a slut, screw anybody and everybody because she already had what she wanted, access to my resources and money. agreat many lessons learned from that misadventure and applied to the second ex wife. she made my second divorce much easier hyvtaking rhe criminal route as she was always a backseat to my kids being the sole reason i married her and made it known up front.

    5. Good choice. Reducing hassle to receive packages is more important than submitting to your husband’s headship.
      Glad to see you have your priorities straight.

      1. You are right our situation was unique…it was before the time of civic addresses…we were self employed and there was a lot of mail and parcels…one time a guy of the same name cashed my husbands GST rebate.
        Under normal circumstances I would have taken my husbands name…it was an answer to a problem at the time and I would not have done it otherwise…my husband gave me an magazine subscription once but he used Mrs version of his name and we rarely obtained the issues despite all complaints. As a female component of our business I was always coming in with answers to support my husband in the problems we had….and this worked. He has since passed away…I knew him 35 years and miss him…sometimes some of your comments hurt …. there is always an outlier situation and this was one I could not help but mention that still distinguishes me in a village where many have his same last name.

  7. Aside from cucking out, people who are not interesting do things to appear interesting hoping to drum up a pointless conversations.
    “What’s your daughters name?”
    “Her name is Henderson McDanielson Rose River Planet.”
    “Why did you name her that?”
    “Well, we want her to become a star and we figure if we name her something retarded someone will think she’s extraordinary.”
    “What does your tattoo say?”
    “It says, “things happen for a reason and that reason is your reason to reason your reasons love life living and love and more love perseverance.”
    “How’d you decide on that?”
    “I wanted to make a statement.”
    “And what statement is that?”
    “…..the statement is…. I had fifty dollars once..”
    “Hey last time I saw you, you had regular earrings, now it looks like I can fit my fist in your ear lobe. What made you decide to do that?”
    “Well you see…. I’m not an interesting person so I need to do retarded things that anyone can do so people will ask me questions. That’s how I get validation.”

    2. Morningwood is better than any comedian. I read comment section just because of him. Total savage 😂😂😂

  8. A woman taking her husbands name is more about submission to him than anything else. Met this feminist girl, dated for a short period and wasnt surprised when she said she wouldnt be taking his surname.
    If she isnt proud to be called Mrs. Successful, you’re doing something wrong.

    2. I would like to know how many men out there married a woman with kids, no kids of his own, got the hyphen and goes to sleep every night with his dick in his hand. Imagine the amount of mental gymnastics one would have to go through to convince himself that he is more than an ATM.

  9. I’ve always really wanted to say to one of these couples, “Are you married or just shacking up?”

    1. Been a long time since I’ve literally LOLed on Return of Debby Downers. That was hilarious.

      1. A see a voice for men is copying the Manhood Academy meme style. lol
        No problems there, we don’t mind to share. Except that AVFM was too cowardly to actually debate the Manhood Academy. Instead they just wrote slanderous smear pieces and banned anyone from the forum who called them on their lies.
        We did have JohntheOther on there, but he totally embarrassed himself with his stupidity and naked dishonesty. He was no match for the Professor. What a boring debate that was.
        Manhood Academy is down for now, like to many other extreme groups. It’s a badge of honor to be censored. You get flak when you’re over the target.
        AVFM is just cucking left now with all their SJW talk over human rights etc… lol

        1. Professor, is that you? What happened to the website and YouTube channel? I remember that debate with the johntheother guy, hes such a cuck and so is a voice for men. I really miss Mh101’s memes they were a lot better

      2. There was a comment on an article last year talking about how this man’s Dad told him never to do a fat chick, especially not underneath her, and, I quote “he nearly passed out as his pelvis was about to break, and my father would’ve been felled that day.” or similar words to such effect.
        My personal addendum is, if you MUST do a fattie, be sure to do her on some surface with some give, like a bed, in case you end up on the bottom. I banged a fattie to break in my new home while it was under renovation; thus, on the floor, and I don’t think my back has been the same since.

      3. oh but it doesnt address at all the whiny screeching voice the shitty attitude and the males health problems from the endless stream of pure shit from its mouth.

  11. Fiancee informed that it isn’t a topic of discussion, and it is very presumptuous of her to assume I would offer her my name.
    Don’t let children play with adult toys.

    1. Nice dude, you’ve found a slick little rhetorical trick to dodge your woman’s challenge, with even a little humor thrown in to take the edge off it. Cute.
      But you’re only fooling yourself.
      If your woman is openly challenging you like this, then it means you do not control the relationship. She doesn’t respect you and consequently has no basis to love you.
      So why do you want to marry this woman?

    1. That’s so awesome I never thought that until this moment. So even if women refuse to take the last name of their husband they are already using their father last name. This is something that is really going to trigger the liberals. Long life to Patriarchy!

  13. The bottom line is, marriage is little more than a tradition at its core. If the woman doesn’t want to follow that aspect of it then why do any of the tradition at all?

  14. Bah. Springer is clearly run by parochial idiots.
    In 1/3 of Western Civilization women keep their last names, namely the Ibero-Hispanic countries. The husband’s last name is added on, typically with a ‘de’ meaning ‘of’. Those macho Latins simply don’t give a damn and haven’t since they started expanding out of Galicia after kicking Islamic and later German and Mongol ass.
    In the US, Anglo culture women who kept their last name were generally professionals so of course the perception of status.

    1. “In 1/3 of Western Civilization women keep their last names, namely the Ibero-Hispanic countries. The husband’s last name is added on, typically with a ‘de’ meaning ‘of’.”
      Only in very formal contexts. Normally, Mr. Carlos Rodriguez [y] Suarez would just be called Carlos Rodriguez.

    2. Among Iberians and Latinos, a wife changing her name when married is seen as is ashamed of her own family, especially if the husband is richer. It is considered as a kind of treachery. Of course Iberian and Latino men are plenty of masculine qualities, according to Western women, to Eastern European women, to Scandinavian women and to their own women too.

  15. I once knew a social science professor married to a hardcore feminist.
    A nice guy but the biggest cuck you ever saw.
    He actually took her name when they got married.
    Well, hyphenated, but still.

    2. I couldn’t remain friends with any man who would do that. I can’t respect such a man.

  16. If a women refuses to take your last name, remind her that her mother took her fathers last name. If her mother didn’t take her fathers last name, then why the fuck would you want a triple hyphenated last name? Women that are like this simply haven’t been put in their place by strong dominant men. Any man that puts in a good amount of the time in the gym could easily kill/beat 99% of females. We choose not to because we live in a civilized society but we as men have to remind women that they are able to have access to food, resources, and shelter because we allow them. No way around this

  17. This is just common sense. If a woman won’t take your last name then she doesn’t really want you. All she wants is your potential baby and your money. She doesn’t want to change her identity to involve you at all. That doesn’t mean she still won’t want to “train” you and expect you to do her bidding. It is just she wants you all in while she is still holding her cards back.

  18. Is the goy in the photo “cisgendered”? Because a true leftist would identify his/her/xe gender properly and not just assume viewers will discern it correctly by just looking at him.
    That guy should be ostracized from all social media and forced to wear a pink yarmulke identifying him has a cisgenered hetero-normative leftist twit.
    #PinkYarmulkeforCisgenderedLeftistMen

  19. Who cares, marriage is for cucks and betas.
    I love seeing a hard-working white collar wage cuck going through life ticking all the boxes on his punch card like the obedient little slave he is. Then he stumbles upon some career bitch, definitely a feminists, offers him a bit of a challenge. But hey, that’s sexy in a woman right? On her part she’s hitting the wall, rode the best cocks, and now it’s time to settle down. So why not?
    Another tick in the box. Marry the bitch, buy that house, buy that pool, shop at Walmart together and live happily ever after in this consumer culture of Chinese-produced “opportunity” growing fat together and having one or two kids to repeat this dumb cycle.
    LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!
    Until the divorce comes, until your daughter starts having sex with gangs of Pakistanis, until your son takes up heroin.
    This is why these boomer-tier cucks are completely useless.
    Just keep funding those Muslim invaders with your taxes and don’t forget to not be racist.

    1. Yeah, I really hate the normies. They’re the ones who will hold you back from leaving the titanic, because if they don’t then they’ll have to entertain the possibility they’re on a sinking ship.
      I hope they all drown in multiculturalism. Their precious investment property–their pride and joy–a squatting for cannibalistic barbarians during rahowa.

  20. No shit.
    Watching ‘Friends’ at a plate’s apartment a while back, and there was this exchange;
    Monica- “What do you think about me keeping my name when we get married?”
    Chandlrr- “Oh, so we’ll be having one of those modern marriages where we don’t love each other.”
    Even goddamn Chandler Bing was more of a man then these cucks who can’t even control a woman, and don’t get me started on those daft double-barrelled surnames.

  21. If I ever get to that point, points in conversations about “traditional, Christian marriage” and “prenuptial agreement” will be made. Any prenup I make will be very decent to her; it’s worth a certain amount of money to keep an ex happy, but it will be fair, as in, reflecting money coming in and who made it.

  22. And hey… The guy in the top-middle is Phish… He was on an excellent documentary called Indie game, about guys who create video games with 1 or 2 people, and are trying to compete against companies with hundreds of employees.
    It’s well worth a watch, (even if you have zero interest in video games anymore) if nothing else than for the sheer determination these guys have being able to work day after day plugging away at their computer. Despite Phish being bitter and immature he’s very endearing, and you want him to work through his problems and succeed.

  23. Gender based societies? Societies cannot lack gender and all societis have foundational bases such as gender roles and kin systems. Shows how much these people know. I will agree that guys that take their “wife’s name -and I say that in the loosest sense of the word- are less masculine. And boy, these guys that do must have quite the headache.

  24. My uncle married a fire-breathing feminist. She kept her name. All 3 children have her last name, not his.
    And here’s a kicker — despite being a big feminist her lifestyle is that of a housewife without the housework and only part of the cooking. She’s a part-time special-ed teacher. She once complained to me about having only 3 months off per year. My uncle has a high-paying career so they’re quite comfortable.
    Here’s another kicker — a few years ago she stopped using her last name and started using her mother’s last name because her father “was a terrible man.” The kids still have her father’s last name, so I’m not sure what message that sends to them.
    At a family gathering my uncle once joked “See this frying pan? That’s how my wife thinks of me, as a utility.” He surprised me because he really nailed it. She sharply reprimanded him, “Robert!!” in front of everyone and he shut up.
    Somehow it works for him. Dunno how. He seems happy.
    I figured out long ago that a woman insisting on keeping her name meant she is unsuitable marriage material.

  25. Marriage is for “cucks”
    Real Alphas like blacks merely father children who are forgotten as he moves on.
    Marriage is to get a steady supply of sex within an acceptable state-sanctioned environment.
    While whites jerk off to porn on the internet and give their credit card up to watch the Hebrew stud have sex with skinny white trash girls from the Flyover whose environment has been so stripped of tradition or meaning or hope that they take it up the ass from 6 Hebrew and black studs.
    Meanwhile the black man is getting sex and blowjobs everywhere. He will leave behind 7 forgotten children while the white cuck tears his hair out trying to find the tax money to cover these unemployed and unemployable people.

    1. Well don’t play their game and leave the country, western white women are a waste of time for the most part. Get with a Latina, or Middle Eastern/North African woman, they still respect white men and move to her country (obviously if it’s a safe country lol). Aslong as your skilled and respectful they love white people there and will respect you back. Learn the language and you will be admired, valued and respected by people there. White Western women are a lost cause for the most part (there are exceptions of course).

    2. What does it say about marriage when the guys who are most enthusiastic about it–impeccably dressed, lavishing all that beauty and splendor upon some whore, only the most sumptuous food and wine–are the same guys who get majorly cu.cko.lded a few years later?
      ((Ben Goldsmith)) is an hilarious, among many, examples of such a pathetic marriage. She c.uc.kold.ed him for some BBC rapper, and not just any rapper, but a rapper you’ve never even heard of.
      It’s as if these cuc.ks are trying to dazzle and bribe the woman to make up for their own lack of authority and manhood. Then the woman punishes them by humiliating them with the worst and lowest masculine specimen they can find.

  26. There are professional reasons for a woman to keep her own name and that’s legit.
    But the biggest insult of all is that hyphenated name bullshit. Whenever I meet a woman with one of those names I go out of my way to approach her with an open mind, but every damned time they all prove to be the exact type of woman who hyphenated her name.

    1. Woman can keep her name, there are sometimes explanations for that, but if man takes womans name then its real cuckiness. He will become missis.

  27. Maybe it is just me, but there is not one picture associated with this article that screams anything but mangina or faker masculine cuck to me. Call it whatever you want, but for some of us, we can just look at a face and see the person behind it and gut instinct know that the alpha male just is not residing in that body. Textbook poosy cucks is that six panel frame….but the other ones, it is plainly obvious. You don’t see hearty obviously masculine male country boys. I don’t have anything against gay men, to each their own, but to attempt pass themselves off as masculine in control dominant alpha men…massive fail and a character fudge smudge on the honesty in advertising factor. No wonder women do not respect them at all but for the readily used ATM slot in their a$$.

  30. I know some poor kids who have 4 fucking lastnames due to divorced grand parents on both sides. Idiots.

  31. I once knew an unfortunate woman who was living in a country at a time when women could not keep their surnames after marrying.
    Said woman was not a feminist. But that poor soul had fallen in love with a man whose name was Mr. Hamsternose.
    (the meaning in the original language).
    When the wedding arrived, the mother of soon-to-be Mrs. Hamsternose was close to tears, – and not only out of joy.

  32. I know two women who got married and on their top ten list for getting married young was to change their last names. Not joking – one was “Drinker” the other was “Boner” (think it was mistranslated at some point from “Bonner”. They couldn’t find husbands fast enough during/after college.

  33. I have recently discovered this site and have been reading several articles here and I must say, I have never seen seen a bunch of whiny, insecure in their masculinity, finding a “SJW” conspiracy behind everything. I bet alot of you have “truck nutz” hanging from the trailer hitch of you big manly trucks. LOL

  34. Shocker!
    Another thing too, if they do that whole conjoined name thing (fredricksson-turner) I’d call them double cucked because they had to negotiate with their woman to get that.

  35. I swear by the Lord of Ibrahim this is fact. EVERY TIME I find out that a woman has a hyphenated last name the FIRST thought in my mind is that ” oh you have one of those kind of husbands”

  38. One rule that should apply…. If she won’t take the last name due to independence,then she can’t take any money if things go south.

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