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"I was originally planning on changing my name a couple months before (my father) died," says Williams, a doctor at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo.

"He cried and asked me not to change it. He was really proud that I was a physician, that there was a Williams doctor in the family, and my sister had already changed her last name."

Kelly, who has a 14-month-old daughter and is pregnant, is conflicted. The thought of going back on her word agonizes her, but so does the prospect of not sharing a last name with her children.

"I just want to be a family with the same name," she says.

Groove, 32, counters that while he endured being called "Rottenbuger" growing up, changing his name to his wife's isn't a manly thing to do.

"Most of my friends probably wouldn't say anything," he says. "They'd probably just say, 'Wow, dude, you really must be whipped.' "

What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage

By AMY SUTHERLAND

New York Times

Published: June 25, 2006

As I wash dishes at the kitchen sink, my husband paces behind me, irritated. "Have you seen my keys?" he snarls, then huffs out a loud sigh and stomps from the room with our dog, Dixie, at his heels, anxious over her favorite human's upset.