Community Chat

[jannabelle1]

I have never signed anything as "Mrs John Doe"....that was something that my mother's generation did (and those married women before her). I'm 72 and most women my age took our own identity during the late 1960s and early 70s....well, most of us did.

[DiAnne]

I have two neighbors (one in her 40's and one in her late 20's) that do not use their husbands last name.  Wish I had thought of that!

[Karie2022]

I've never signed it Mrs. RichardXXX.  always my first name and my married last name, and I don't think I even used Mrs., but my mother signs her name Mrs. Richard XXX, not always, but a lot...generational, I don't know? She's in her late 80's.

[TaylorBrown]

I hyphenated my name when I got married.  I sign my name as my name not as Mrs. with my husband's name.

[songbird]

My co worker is Russian.  All Russian women never take their husband's last name.  This is left over from the Communist, After Communism, the tradition continued.  When she came to this country, legally she kept her maiden name. Her husband has a different last name.  As you know, Russia female last name has an added "ova" sound. That tradition stayed also.

[Mersha]

I remember that my mother signed her name as Mrs. John Doe.

It seems like that might be something left over from the generation of the 1950's and before.

I always sign my first name, maiden name or middle initial for it and my married last name.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@songbird wrote:

My co worker is Russian.  All Russian women never take their husband's last name.  This is left over from the Communist, After Communism, the tradition continued.  When she came to this country, legally she kept her maiden name. Her husband has a different last name.  As you know, Russia female last name has an added "ova" sound. That tradition stayed also.

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@songbird  Anyone in this country can 'legally' keep their maiden name. Your husband can have a different name. There is no law saying you have to take your husbands name.

[CatsyCline]

i don't know about all Canadians but French Canadians keep their birth names.

i remember after i got married in the late 70s women started refusing to take the husband's name or hyphenating the name.

i really did not care too much. i was not a career woman when i married, i was barely 20.  now he had an ex who kept his name and a new wife with his name.  the ex passed away a couple yrs ago but i'm -#2- still kicking around. we never speak (his choice) so i don't  know what he thinks. tough beans. just funny on FB its me Jane Doe and his wife, Jean Doe

[Mary Bailey]

Never Mrs (return labels that I never ordered say Ms - I don't mind)

my first name

DH last name 

[LIndaMJ]

I sign with my first name, middle initial and my married name.