Thread: Did Your Wife Take Your Name?

Originally Posted by superman

If they keep their Thai surnames it will make it that much harder to get any financial entitlements, due to them, when their husband pops his clogs. IE, his name is 'Jones' and hers 'Kongngoennok'. That should baffle the pensions computer.

The spelling problems aside it would not baffle the computer more than if his name was Meier and hers Schulze.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Do you have any references or any sources of information stating that more Thai women are not taking their Thai husbands name?

as they could not before, and can now, obviously there are more

I personally know two

All this thread has shown me is that there are yet more people in mind boggling relationships and who obviously haven't got married for the main reason being that they are madly in love with each other and want to spend the rest of their lives together.

Maybe read Bobcock's posts on the thread.

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Do you have any references or any sources of information stating that more Thai women are not taking their Thai husbands name?

as they could not before, and can now, obviously there are more

Obviously, if before there were none and now there is one it would be a 100% increase.
However that doesn't really tell us a lot about a growing trend in a nation with 63 million citizens.

What I was getting at is this,
"Is this a growing trend of any any real significance amongst Thai marriages compared to Thai/Farang marriages"

Or is this mainly a dubious honour reserved for Thai/Farang marriages ?

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Obviously, if before there were none and now there is one it would be a 100% increase.

incorrect.

"Is this a growing trend of any any real significance amongst Thai marriages compared to Thai/Farang marriages"

IME, yes.

Or is this mainly a dubious honour reserved for Thai/Farang marriages ?

IME, no.

Thank You CM, I thought I'd green you but apparently I've greened you recently....must have been pissed....555

Oh the good news is she's left me dinner, bad news is the kids are still here.

I'm missing her already.

Originally Posted by Fabian

The spelling problems aside it would not baffle the computer more than if his name was Meier and hers Schulze

Sorry to disagree 'Fabian'. I was married to a woman in the UK who kept her fathers name, out of respect for him. She was told from dot one that it would cause problems, and it did. Try explaining when going on holiday and booking your holiday as a married couple, with different names. Or stating, on a form, your marriage status and then in putting seperate surnames. It throws everything out. Believe me, I've been there. Go try filling a form out asking if you are married ? Reply 'yes' and then put your wife's name as different to yours. See where you get.

Do it all the time on planes trains and automobiles.

Never had a problem, even booking tickets online where there can be a lack of flexibility.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Obviously, if before there were none and now there is one it would be a 100% increase.

incorrect.

fair enough......... if you want to be pendant

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Originally Posted by Sdigit

"Is this a growing trend of any any real significance amongst Thai marriages compared to Thai/Farang marriages"

IME, yes.

Same as I asked DrAndy......got any reference backing that up?

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Or is this mainly a dubious honour reserved for Thai/Farang marriages ?

IME, no.

Reference again pls Mao

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Obviously, if before there were none and now there is one it would be a 100% increase.

Originally Posted by Chairman Mao

incorrect.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

fair enough......... if you want to be pendant

don't leave him hanging, Sdigit, he is correct though

yes I know he is, thats why I said fair enough

if you have none, then at least one appears, that would be an infinite increase
quite a lot then

yes..one.....if you can call one quite a lot

as for links to show that is happening at an infinite rate, my Thai is not good enough to go through all the papers

It'll be more work than is worth it finding references for this one.
I have called a few friends though and none of us the know of any Thai/Thai marriages where the woman has not changed her name to the husbands

but if I know two, then there must be many more

And I and my friends know of none so maybe not many. But we do know of quite a few farangs who have married Thais where the woman has not changed her name.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

yes..one.....if you can call one quite a lot

I was calling infinite quite a lot, but maybe you want to be a pendant

Well, my girlfriend has her heart set on having my name. So that is the way we will do it.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Well, my girlfriend has her heart set on having my name. So that is the way we will do it.

that's excellent.
this way you won't have to experience the pain that bobcock is going through right now.


congratulations, btw!

When's the big date?

Not sure yet. This year though.

Congrats.

Maybe head off to that Vietnamese Island Wayne Kerr was on for the honeymoon. Looks quite nice.

Or Newcastle of course.

Thanks. We will go somewhere for 3 or 4 nights probably.

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Thanks. We will go somewhere for 3 or 4 nights probably.

You getting married Noodles, nice one mate I wish you and your intended all the best

Originally Posted by DrAndy

Originally Posted by Sdigit

yes..one.....if you can call one quite a lot

I was calling infinite quite a lot, but maybe you want to be a pendant

Ohhh I see........................Phew! glad you cleared that up for me Doc

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Thanks. We will go somewhere for 3 or 4 nights probably.

Congratulations from me too.

Originally Posted by Sdigit

Ohhh I see........................Phew! glad you cleared that up for me Doc

that's Ok, we don't want any pendants hanging around here

Originally Posted by tsicar

if your surname is not good enough for her, then SHE is not good enough for you

quite right Tsico, if you repeat it enough and shout it, that makes it true

Originally Posted by English Noodles

Well, my girlfriend has her heart set on having my name.

Mrs Noodles, has a nice ring about it