My fi and I would like one last name for our future family but can't decide which one to take because we're both attached to our given names but like the other name.
I love my name and decided when I was seven that I wasn't gonna change it (willing now but really don't want to). I also want to keep my name alive because my dad was an only child and I only have sisters (my family's joke was that I was the boy of the family - before my fi came around).
The fi loves his last name and is also semi-traditional. His grandparents are highly old-fashioned and traditional (not usually a problem to me) and he's afraid of their reaction (and his dad's) if h were to take my last name.
We're at a total dead spot on deciding which to take (still have time to decide so no rush or anything) and just wondered what ya'll thought.
EDIT: Hyphenation would make it too long in our opinions.
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