Have you noticed how many fractured surnames there are today? I don't know if it is a craze, or people aren't quite sure if they plan to stick with the marriage, or they are wanting people to know they are not one flesh, but two people joined by a hyphen.
Consider the long term impact of this. Someone named Smith-Jones ends up marrying someone named Watkinson-Maclean. Would their married surname be Smith-Jones-Watkinson-Maclean? Where does it end? Their child meets someone named Frankish-Johnston-Peabody-Roberts, and they end up with a surname of Smith-Jones-Watkinson-Maclean-Frankish-Johnston-Peabody-Roberts or is it Frankish-Johnston-Peabody-Roberts-Smith-Jones-Watkinson-Maclean?
This is not just about tradition, unity and becoming ONE flesh. A lot of it is just common sense, but I don't recall ever seeing this before the feminist movement started. I have heard women advising other married women with advice for safeguarding themselves against the devastation of divorce. If you plan for divorce, then you are no longer operating in a life long covenant. So many people don't understand the difference between a promise and a covenant.
Have you ever been to a wedding where God was not invited? It is empty, dark, and very sad. It breaks my heart.
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