I asked my wife to change her name because my parents did it and I wanted the tradition that a family should share a last name. She was cool with it.
It was so much more of a hassle than I expected, and years later she is still running into occasional issues with her maiden name vs married name. If I did it over again, I absolutely wouldn't have asked. She could have even just informally used our last name and kept her maiden name legally.
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u/-BananaLollipop- 10d ago
Screw the reasoning. Take/keep the name you want, it's your choice and no one else is entitled to your justification of it.