Asking Eric: Gentle reminders or confrontation? Dealing with family name issues

Oct 24, 2024

Dear Eric: I’m a 50-something woman living with my lovely (male) partner: we’ve been together for more than 15 years but never married. I had a first marriage to my teenage sweetheart which ended in divorce, something that was not only deeply painful to me but also to my conservative religious family. Mine was only the second divorce in our family.