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In the comments to this post about men changing their last names, I got this comment:

I don’t want to change my last name, and my fiance is pretty open to changing his. But he’s got 10 years of work under his belt with his name, and ffhe’ll be the first to admit - he works with a bunch of macho types who will probably not be so supportive. So he says, “Show me another man that has done this - let me talk to him, let me learn how he navigated these challenges.” … But I can’t find him a single one, except anecdotally. So where are the men who have taken their wives’ names? And how do I find them?!

I know a couple men who’ve taken their wives’ last names in two different ways (one got rid of his last name, the other hyphenated), so I pestered them for some answers:

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