Comments on: Jay Mohr gets ridiculed for taking his wife’s last name http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/ Stylish celebrity escapism Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:53:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Study Smart http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-5883759 Study Smart Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:30:27 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-5883759 I have been surfing on-line greater than three hours lately, but I by no means found any interesting article like yours. It?s pretty value sufficient for me. In my opinion, if all site owners and bloggers made just right content as you probably did, the net will likely be a lot more useful than ever before. I have been surfing on-line greater than three hours lately, but I by no means found any interesting article like yours. It?s pretty value sufficient for me. In my opinion, if all site owners and bloggers made just right content as you probably did, the net will likely be a lot more useful than ever before.

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]]> By: Rosebudd http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-178678 Rosebudd Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:16:55 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-178678 My grandparents were fr. Ireland on father's side & my mother's relatives fr. Ir. further back. I'm a redheaded, 100% Irish gal. My husband is American Chinese 100%. I took his last name & it's been a source of entertainment for 25 yrs. Everywhere I go, people look around for that Chinese gal when my name is called out. Every month when I traveled to Singapore, the whole place asked the same question naively. How? Anyways, it makes it easier for my children. I did give them my maiden name as middle names. Irish & proud! Whatever works for people... My grandparents were fr. Ireland on father’s side & my mother’s relatives fr. Ir. further back. I’m a redheaded, 100% Irish gal. My husband is American Chinese 100%. I took his last name & it’s been a source of entertainment for 25 yrs. Everywhere I go, people look around for that Chinese gal when my name is called out. Every month when I traveled to Singapore, the whole place asked the same question naively. How? Anyways, it makes it easier for my children. I did give them my maiden name as middle names. Irish & proud! Whatever works for people…

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]]> By: Jmemee http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-177037 Jmemee Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:02:49 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-177037 Oh yeah and what happend to her? Did she get breast reduction? Lip implants? What is it??? She looks so different. Oh yeah and what happend to her? Did she get breast reduction? Lip implants? What is it??? She looks so different.

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]]> By: Jmemee http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-177033 Jmemee Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:01:33 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-177033 I think that's really sweet and shows how much he loves her. I can't believe anyone would make fun of this. I think that’s really sweet and shows how much he loves her. I can’t believe anyone would make fun of this.

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]]> By: Lauri http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-176935 Lauri Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:28:44 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-176935 "My mother was a single parent who had me at 17 and she was not married to my father. She got married for the first time in her thirties and she hyphenated her name and took my stepdad’s last name. My two brothers have my stepdad’s name. I was the only person in the family with a different name and it was always something that bothered me — especially when people would comment on it (which believe it or not actually happened)." No offense intended toward your mother, here, but really you are talking about a different issue. That is, the issue of having children with multiple partners. That and the name issue are really two separate things. “My mother was a single parent who had me at 17 and she was not married to my father. She got married for the first time in her thirties and she hyphenated her name and took my stepdad’s last name. My two brothers have my stepdad’s name. I was the only person in the family with a different name and it was always something that bothered me — especially when people would comment on it (which believe it or not actually happened).”

No offense intended toward your mother, here, but really you are talking about a different issue. That is, the issue of having children with multiple partners. That and the name issue are really two separate things.

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]]> By: Lauri http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-176930 Lauri Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:21:14 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-176930 "It’s starting out symbolically as a couple with the same last name that really jump starts the whole process of learning how to journey through life together as a couple...And if you love your maiden name honor your children with it for a middle name." Then why shouldn't the man take the wife's last name, and give his last name to the kids as a middle name? It's the EXACT same thing, right? “It’s starting out symbolically as a couple with the same last name that really jump starts the whole process of learning how to journey through life together as a couple…And if you love your maiden name honor your children with it for a middle name.”

Then why shouldn’t the man take the wife’s last name, and give his last name to the kids as a middle name? It’s the EXACT same thing, right?

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]]> By: Lauri http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-176913 Lauri Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:43:20 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-176913 MB Travis: your logic is flawless! MB Travis: your logic is flawless!

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]]> By: Lauri http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-176910 Lauri Fri, 02 Jan 2009 23:40:41 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-176910 "Whatever happened to good old fashioned picket fence, white dress and pearls, sweep me off to my three room cape cod home romance" Not a thing, if that is what a husband and wife both want out of life. Marriage (and romance) have nothing to do with your 1950's idealized concept of what life should be. If that is what you and your wife want, then that is the life you should pursue together. See, it's about common goals. It's about two people choosing to spend their lives together working toward the things they both want in life. What if, instead of pearls and picket fences, she wants to be a doctor and he wants to be a househusband? Is that wrong? Not if that is what they decided together is right for them. They have as much right to be happy as do your Ozzy and Harriet-esque idols. Same thing with the name thing. I took my husbands name because, well, I wanted to. I didn't feel forced to, and if I had decided to keep my maiden name he would have been fine with it. We have been happily married for 20 years now. I imagine that if I were ever single again, I would never change my name again. I would keep my husbands name, even if I remarried, because (1) I like it. It goes well with my first name. (2) it's what I've been known by personally and professionally for decades and I don't feel the need to re-train all of my friends and colleagues. I have plenty of friends who chose to keep their maiden names, and more power to them. It doesn't mean they don't like being married. It doesn't mean they are not committed to the marriages. It means that, for whatever reason, they chose to keep the names they were born with. That's all; nothing else. I think if a man is so insecure that he cannot fathom his wife keeping her own name, he is probably not mature enough for marriage. That is not what marriage is, or should be, based upon. I can't think of a whole lot of things more personal than the name one chooses to go by, and it is certainly rude (at the very least) to presume that one *must* follow an old tradition simply because YOU happen to like it. It harms no one, so I don't really see why anyone should judge or make assumptions about others based on that. “Whatever happened to good old fashioned picket fence, white dress and pearls, sweep me off to my three room cape cod home romance”

Not a thing, if that is what a husband and wife both want out of life.

Marriage (and romance) have nothing to do with your 1950′s idealized concept of what life should be. If that is what you and your wife want, then that is the life you should pursue together.

See, it’s about common goals. It’s about two people choosing to spend their lives together working toward the things they both want in life. What if, instead of pearls and picket fences, she wants to be a doctor and he wants to be a househusband? Is that wrong? Not if that is what they decided together is right for them. They have as much right to be happy as do your Ozzy and Harriet-esque idols.

Same thing with the name thing. I took my husbands name because, well, I wanted to. I didn’t feel forced to, and if I had decided to keep my maiden name he would have been fine with it. We have been happily married for 20 years now. I imagine that if I were ever single again, I would never change my name again. I would keep my husbands name, even if I remarried, because (1) I like it. It goes well with my first name. (2) it’s what I’ve been known by personally and professionally for decades and I don’t feel the need to re-train all of my friends and colleagues.

I have plenty of friends who chose to keep their maiden names, and more power to them. It doesn’t mean they don’t like being married. It doesn’t mean they are not committed to the marriages. It means that, for whatever reason, they chose to keep the names they were born with. That’s all; nothing else.

I think if a man is so insecure that he cannot fathom his wife keeping her own name, he is probably not mature enough for marriage. That is not what marriage is, or should be, based upon.

I can’t think of a whole lot of things more personal than the name one chooses to go by, and it is certainly rude (at the very least) to presume that one *must* follow an old tradition simply because YOU happen to like it. It harms no one, so I don’t really see why anyone should judge or make assumptions about others based on that.

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]]> By: Aspen http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-175681 Aspen Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:48:18 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-175681 LOL....oh it looks like someone shot a little crack into his coffee this morning. LOL….oh it looks like someone shot a little crack into his coffee this morning.

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]]> By: Codzilla http://www.celebitchy.com/28267/jay_mohr_gets_ridiculed_for_taking_his_wifes_last_name/#comment-175145 Codzilla Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:29:46 +0000 http://www.celebitchy.com/?p=28267#comment-175145 brick: Uh, what? brick: Uh, what?

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