Posted by pegasus on August 23, 2004, at 13:16:16
In reply to Re: Thanks everyone for your impressions » pegasus, posted by Dinah on August 21, 2004, at 9:31:50
It's good to hear your thoughts about this. And it's interesting that my husband and I have pretty much the opposite impulse. We have zero interest in connecting to history, for whatever reason. Maybe it's that we want to visualize our new family as being different from our families of origin in so many ways. But I appreciate where you're coming from on that as well.
My husband has an extremely common name as well, which I love, and has never had a problem with it. Although I have to use a nickname when I call to him in public, because he's learned over the years to not respond to his actual name (since everyone is calling it out all the time).
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