Before my FI and I were engaged, I always said I was going to hyphenate my last name. I work for the family business and to me, it's important I keep my last name. However, my FI gets really upset when we have this conversation because he doesn't understand why I don't want just his last name. (Side note, my name is Nikki, his brother is Nick, we would have semi the same name!) I'm not trying to make our children have a hyphenated last name, I would just like to keep my maiden name as well. I don't want to make him upset! Should I maybe make my middle name my maiden name? Is anyone else thinking about hyphenating, or not changing at all?