The family name represents the family as a whole, both internally and externally. With the marriage one becomes a family and expresses the belonging with the name. This affiliation is also expressed physically with the wedding rings.

Family Name - Family Tree

Why should the man's name continue to be used as a family name and not the woman's? What does equal marriage mean? The woman founds a new family (physically) with the birth of children. It makes, literally the content, a family.

Surname - When does a man take responsibility?

In an equal marriage, spouses need to know when each other is assuming maximum responsibility. The man only takes responsibility when something belongs to him (psychically). If he can call it his own. The woman takes responsibility when the people in the family belong to her (physically). In order to be and become a part of something bigger, you need the history of the family as the bigger and the part.

One gives the other what one needs to be able to take on responsibility. Since the woman chooses the man and the man wants the woman, there is harmony where you can become a part of something bigger. You belong together and own each other. Starting a family and continuing to lead it is existential. One entrusts one's life and death to one's family and accordingly the decision should be examined in deadly seriousness. The surname shows who belongs to whom.

Meditation - Family

The family is the fatherland of the heart. The family was walking through the field when Mrs. Ottilie, blushing softly, found a double ear of corn with a lucky hand. What the old legend says has often been proven. Double happiness is bestowed on those who find such ears of corn. Father Franz looks shyly to the side. two to five that would be a lot. Children, he said, but it's unusually muggy today.