Change Username

[Reinardina]

Originally Posted by kezpock

Is it possible to change your user name on this site?

You once explained how you 'put together' your username, and that we could draw our conclusions if/when you changed it.
Hope it is happy, not sad.

[Kerry Holt]

oh yes lol i forgot that!! no nothing gone wrong I thought i'd just like my real name!

[Kerry Holt]

Originally Posted by samcliffe

Hi guys - we can change your username, but you can't do this yourself. If you want to change it please drop me an email samantha.cliffe@futurenet.com

Thankyou very much Samantha!

[Reinardina]

Originally Posted by Kerry Holt

oh yes lol i forgot that!! no nothing gone wrong I thought i'd just like my real name!

I'm all in favour of own names.

In Holland a woman keeps her maiden name when she marries, as far as 'officialdom' is concerned. I am still Reinardina X, wife of Y and I like it that way. Passport, official documents etc are all in my 'own' name.
Children get the father's name, and in 'real life' you are known as Mrs Y, or often Mrs Y-X.

Here, in England, I have become Mrs. Y. A total new person, without a history.

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by Reinardina

I'm all in favour of own names.

In Holland a woman keeps her maiden name when she marries, as far as 'officialdom' is concerned. I am still Reinardina X, wife of Y and I like it that way. Passport, official documents etc are all in my 'own' name.
Children get the father's name, and in 'real life' you are known as Mrs Y, or often Mrs Y-X.

Here, in England, I have become Mrs. Y. A total new person, without a history.

Know the feeling, Reinardina! :-)

I changed from my maiden name to married name and didn't like my married name ( Sorry to husband lol ) and chose a completely new surname for myself via deed poll .Now I feel odd having a different surname to him but can't really change back again as my qualifications are under Oliver. He uses my surname online so as not to create confusion :-)

Karen

[donoreo]

Originally Posted by Reinardina

I'm all in favour of own names.

In Holland a woman keeps her maiden name when she marries, as far as 'officialdom' is concerned. I am still Reinardina X, wife of Y and I like it that way. Passport, official documents etc are all in my 'own' name.
Children get the father's name, and in 'real life' you are known as Mrs Y, or often Mrs Y-X.

Here, in England, I have become Mrs. Y. A total new person, without a history.

My wife kept her maiden name. The only time she is Mrs. Smith is calling school or the doctor or something else the girls are doing.

[Kerry Holt]

So i made a cool decision then

[Reinardina]

Originally Posted by karenoliver

Know the feeling, Reinardina! :-)

I changed from my maiden name to married name and didn't like my married name ( Sorry to husband lol ) and chose a completely new surname for myself via deed poll .Now I feel odd having a different surname to him but can't really change back again as my qualifications are under Oliver. He uses my surname online so as not to create confusion :-)

Karen

Oops, that's an awkward situation! Couldn't you have kept your maiden name? It is done a lot now here in England, but not when I married in 1984.
It's all water under the bridge now anyway. Maybe your husband could become an Oliver too?

Originally Posted by donoreo

My wife kept her maiden name. The only time she is Mrs. Smith is calling school or the doctor or something else the girls are doing.

In England, for English things, like NHS, library and council elections, I am only known as Mrs. Y. They'd panic if I started to use my own name. I never bothered to change it, but as I kept my Dutch nationality, I have no problems with it and happily use both names.
Our postman has got used to both names, so everything is fine!

Originally Posted by Kerry Holt

So i made a cool decision then

You did.

[donoreo]

I know of a couple that both changed their names when they got married. They took both surnames and hyphenated them. Luckily they were not too long but they became Mr. and Mrs. Jansen-Peters.