To be proud of being and wife and to want to be acknowledged as such?

[WriterofDreams]

I've read quite a few posts on MN from people who are annoyed, and quite rightly so, at being called "Mrs" when they're actually a Ms or Dr or some other title. I've actually found I have the opposite problem, where companies send me correspondence with the title "Ms" even though I put Mrs on any forms or letters I send. It also quite annoys me when I introduce my DH as my husband and people persist in calling him my partner. I chose to get married and being a wife is an important part of my identity that I would like to have acknowledged. I like being "Mrs DH's name" although I do draw the line at being called "Mrs Dh's first name Dh's second name," as I haven't actually changed my first name at all.

AIBU to expect companies and professionals to use the title I've actually selected rather than the PC catch-all one?

I'm proud to have not been married for 33 years

Sorry, is the title of this thread 'AIBU to want to know all about LeQueen's deeply ordinary fantastic life and times??

YABU.

Why should the fact that you signed a piece of paper and changed your name interest "companies and professionals" - or anyone else?

It might be something that you and your DH think about, but it's utterly meaningless to the outside world.

Of course swan- aren't all threads! Like the lets hear all about LQ's marvellously huge kitchen/house/friends 6 bedroomed victorian mansion type threads....

Oh Gemsy thats very mean and if you cant see the irony in LeQ's posts then you need to work on your sense of humour. Also I brought up the dress, not her and I in fact had a similarly large dress, but I dont think I looked like a gypsy (maybe i did a bit but what the hell

Ouch, I appear to have beared my soul in the middle of a bird row

It's just like the girl's toilets of an under 16 disco on this thread.

I just don't know whose Blue WKD bottle to hold.

LeQueen I am fascinated by your life and times, in fact I think you are either
a) Jilly Copper or
b) should be writing books like Jilly Cooper cos your posts are so so funny.
Irony is lost on some.

I'm a Mrs (13 yrs in 13 days! - ooh get me bragging about it!) and I prefer Mrs to Ms, which as far as I'm aware is my choice?? Thanks to this thread I've learnt that this means; I'm oppressed, look down on women who aren't married and that I'm setting the sisterhood back years and years.

I always think LeQ is fabulously tongue in cheek, from the 'royal' way she addresses MrQ and so on. I think LeQ would be a good person to spend an evening with, someone who doesn't take herself seriously...

Of course I could be wrong and LeQ's posts could be sincere and she could be a complete idiot, but I know I'm right!

Gemsy...If she grates you so much I think you should just ignore.

LeQ...behave!

[stamps with or without Jimmy Choo?]

This thread has gone slightly mad

Well I have a wedding dress never worn in the loft and a black and white Maxi that I wore on the day, 38 wks pg!!

Frock not nearly bling enough, LeQ. And was your H holding in a fart when that pic was taken?