All these tasks added together are stressful and frustrating. Any time something is stressful, it takes up even more brain space. It affects your day and mood. It physically feels heavy in your mind, and that's a form of mental load. In heterosexual marriages, it's long been tradition for women to change their last name to their husband's after tying the knot. In fact, it's still very much the norm.
According to a 2023But what most people don't talk about is how much work it actually takes to change your name everywhere (and I mean EVERYWHERE), as well as the mental toll that can take on the person doing the changing. Delanie Kristek, a 27-year-old marketing consultant and newlywed from Dallas, Texas, recently went viral on"Men in heterosexual marriages will never understand the mental load and time investment of changing your last name," Delanie says in the"Holy cow," she continues,"I'm in the process of changing my last name right no