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View Poll Results: How long have you been with your Significant Other?
Single all the way, baby 3 4.84%
Single at the moment 6 9.68%
Less than 3 months 0 0%
3-6 months 0 0%
6 monthe - 1 year 1 1.61%
1-3 years 7 11.29%
3-5 years 4 6.45%
5-10 years 11 17.74%
10-20 years 21 33.87%
20-30 years 7 11.29%
>30 years 2 3.23%
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Old 04-19-2009, 05:48 PM   #1
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Not quite. Like all rituals, marriage changes you. You come out at the other end a different person, with part of your soul joined with another's for eternity. At least that's the idea.
In some circles, yes.
I am not becoming a possession. I am not 'joining my husband's clan'. I am not nullifying my connection to my mother and father. And I don't have a 'soul'. :p

Changing my name seemed like it would have been a repudiation of my entire life up to that point.
YMMV.
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