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How to reclaim your name after marriage

I changed my last name when I got married and now I feel like I lost a piece of myself, but my husband says changing it back would be disrespectful to our marriage.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The collision between traditional expectations and personal identity reveals how names carry the weight of relationships and selfhood.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Name and identity across cultures?”

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