SUNDAY 4 AUGUST 2019

Should I take my husband’s

name? Either way I lose

Judicial choice: US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg went for the combined option (AFP/Getty)

CLÉMENCE MICHALLON

Earlier this week, my husband decided we should get a stationery stamp. We had a

few thank-you letters to send, which seemed as good an occasion as any. He got to

work, trying to find a cute design combining both of our names.

This wasn’t the kind of endeavour that should send you into a tailspin, much less a crisis of conscience
about marriage, relationships and your place in them. And yet, after three tentative designs it became clear

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