How Do You Sign Your Name? - Page 5

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@CrazyKittyLvr2 Good grief! Are assembling files on us? Every day it's questions questions questions!

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@Pearlee wrote:
I always wonder how an ex husband feels when his ex keeps his last name. I think if I were the ex husband I probably wouldn't like it (esp if I remarried but even if not) unless it was to maintain uniformity with the children's last name.

I'll never be in that situation so it doesn't matter at all but have wondered about it every now and then.

@Pearlee Well I kept mine and have no idea what he thought about it or even knew. I didn't feel like changing all my documents,etc. Have been with my now husband many years and when finally decided to wed still kept ex's name. Have had it for so long all are used to it and no one cares.

ninjawife · ‎11-15-2011

@jeanlake wrote:
Married late 70s - never signed Mrs. and never signed hubs' name instead of mine. Never even signed Ms, which was an upgrade from Mrs. Daughter and I laugh. Single daughter said she loves her last name and how it flows with her first name. Not changing it. But she has dated some guys with difficult to spell or wonky last names. The last boyfriend had 4 syllables!

One of my college roomates kept her madien name and another roomate not only kept hers but her new husband changed his name to her madien name.

Bridgegal · ‎03-09-2010

I sign my first and middle name initials and then my last name , which is my maiden name. When we married 30 years ago, I kept my maiden name.

With marriage #1 in 1968, i worked at a bank and got free checks. I put Mr. and Mrs. his name. When they arrived, I thought 'what was I thinking?' I'd already given up my last name and now my whole name. I immediately ordered new checks with " George and Betty Smith (not our real names) on them. I got those free too.

I think I have a book of checks somewhere and they have just my name on them. I do all of the banking so no need for his name.

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

@CrazyKittyLvr2

My wife never uses her maiden name in her "official signature". She does use her first name, not Mrs. John. Bad enough she went from a simple to pronounce last correctly, to my last name. She doesn't like hyphenated names any more than I do, especially now, to me, it seems to used geopolitical purposes.

hckynut

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Bridgegal · ‎03-09-2010

@Pearlee

I kept my first husbands last name after we divorced. I liked it fine and didn't want to go thru the ordeal of changing everything. He didn't care at all. 9 years later I got tired of my mother bugging me about it and went to court and changed it back to my maiden name. It was the path of least resistance. I've kept it ever since. Current husband doesn't care either. In fact, he gets mail addressed to "BOB my last name". And my friends think my last name is his. We laugh about it. His name isn't Bob either.

corita · ‎08-20-2012

I use my first name, then middle initial is maiden last name and then married name.

Ever since I was little, my mother always told me to use a middle initial to differentiate my name to any other that might be identical.

When my DD was months old, I took her a new pediatrician. They called us in and the nurse and doc both said..."this child is not 2 years old!!" No, she was only five months old. My DD and another patient had the exact name...first, middle and last!!!

PreKteacher · ‎03-17-2018

Most of the time I sign my name Jane A. Doe (The A initial is my maiden name initial).

However, my students call me Mrs. Doe, so if I am sending a card to one of them, I sign it Mrs. Doe. I haven't seen "Mr. and Mrs. John Doe" in ages, but if I received a card or invitation addressed that way, I wouldn't think anything of it. I think it's still how formal correspondence is written sometimes.

CatsyCline · ‎07-24-2013

i sign firstsname last name. i don;'t use my middle initial unless for legal documents.

i was married for 12 yrs and when we divorced kept the married name. i was so young when i married, i do not exist in any search records with my maiden name. and i don't care what he thinks, my maiden name was ethnic and caused me a lot of grief from teasing.