As I announced last week, I recently got married.
Initially, my mind was made up about not changing my last name. I've had this one for 14 years. My real estate license and my business are both under my current name.
I chose my current last name after a divorce. I took my brother and sister's last name. And let's face it, not changing my name requires zero effort.
Yesterday, though I felt maybe I should reconsider. So I started praying (as I hadn't yet).
This morning I thought how weird would it be to become a Christian yet not call yourself by Christ's name? But instead, keep your old identity.
Biblically, the hierarchy is Christ, Husband, then Wife. By not taking my husband's name, am I saying I don't respect the Biblical hierarchy?
I am independent. I've had no choice but to be so. I realize there's some weird sense of safety in not changing my name.
But I'm no longer convinced my reasoning is valid, or Biblical.
Thoughts?
@Truther I am not a Christian. I see Western traditions in a vastly more ancient perspective. Penelope remained loyal to Odysseus for twenty years and denied an army of suitors in his two decades of absence. It is the husbands duty to never kneel before any man even in the face of death, that is his greatest challenge. It is the wifes duty to kneel only to her husband and him alone, that is her greatest challenge.
Are you up to the challenge?
@Engineer
Wow, this is amazing. Thank you for sharing!