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[ShazzieB]

35. I changed my name, because it was what I wanted to do.

It was really that simple. For highly personal reasons I won't go into, I liked the idea of leaving my old name behind. It felt like a fresh start. Since I didn't have any desire to keep that name myself, asking him to take it never even entered my mind. There's no reason it would have.

I think it would have been cool for both of us to take a completely new name together, IF that was something we had both really wanted to do, but that wasn't the case. The choice boiled down to me taking his name or not taking it. He would have respected my wishes either way, but changing my name was what suited me at the time.

I'll admit that it was also simpler, because it was the expected thing. Any other choice would have involved answering a lot of questions and explaining ourselves over and over. I would have willingly done that if I'd wanted to keep my birth name, but I didn't. Avoiding that hassle is NOT why I changed my name, but it was a nice bonus.