Much more so for you the dood from Bangalore, the dashing guy who wears cravat while singing bollywood songs, dancing and prancing.
Wonder when people will pick this upnext question: why should women have to go to men's house, why men do not go to women's house ?
Guess what...I havent changed my name.
And it has no cultural and religion reason behind it.
Hubby said your name would look different from that on your certificates ...and arabs might get confused
Its the speciality of my place , after marriage, husband and wife goes to the husband's house. Then wife's relatives comes and take the wife back to her home. Later that evening, husband is taken to the wife's home by his friends, who will basically eat every last edible item in the wife's home. From then on,husband will stay on wife's place,eat from there and all,we have joke that if a guy marries from my place "food and accommodation free!
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The reason behind this is, from old times itself, men in my place have been working outside the country,especially middle east,ceylon,singapore etc. So for major part of the year,husband will be abroad, and wifes were allowed to stay with their own parents at their own homes. Whenever the husband is at home, he stays at wifeys home.
Why should a woman change her name???whats the logic???In Pakistan, almost across the country, that kind of a husband would be kicked out onto the streets even before the ink on the marriage certificate has dried !
In Pakistan, almost across the country, that kind of a husband would be kicked out onto the streets even before the ink on the marriage certificate has dried !
Such men are looked down upon in our society !
Same as my wife. Holding passport with her original surname. The world is changing and Pseudo-Feminists are on rise. They have problem with all traditional or cultural things. I see daily a lot of news, blog etc stating why I did't kept Karvachauth Vrat, Why Mangalsutra/Bindi etc. It is one's choice why to make an issue about it. My sis and mom love our tradition and follow in its own way while my wife goes selective about them. Nobody says anything to each other and neither my wife starts boasting about it nor mom/sis makes hue and cry about it. .
Yes....we men like to brand our cows !
Thats how we do it !
Jokes Aside - I dunno why it happens but it does; most women in my family and extended family barring a few exceptions took their husband's names. Its just what people do !
) is for the wife to retain her surname and for the children to assume both parents' surnames. Hence my kid has the surname Thakur - ***** . My brother will give the surname Patel - ****** to his kids. My female cousin has given the surname *****- Khan to her kids. Point is that the mother's surname comes first with the father's following. Names are very important and so are surnames. I recall that when I bought a pet bulldog for my kid a few months ago, I wanted to name our pet "Thakur" after my father-in-law since the dog's posture and frown reminded me so much of him. I rushed home to my wife and excitedly told her that I was extending her family name a step further in our family. I gave up on that idea after my wife threatened to burn me alive whilst I was asleep. Ungrateful woman
but others have forgotten it... 
