Should you still call yourself Mrs after divorce?
OPINION: Is it 'entitled' to give yourself a title? On a women's discussion group on social media this week a woman asked the question: “If I'm divorced is it OK to call myself Mrs?”
So many responses. So many differing ideas about titles and handles and who gets what and when, whoever breaks up from whoever. I romped in, in a non-typical display of public nudity with: “You should do whatever makes you comfortable. I, for one, don't like titles. I'm simply Polly Gillespie.'
I had no idea that so many women felt so strongly about the whole Miss, Ms, Mrs thing. I don't get it. Never have, never will, but I’m totally cool with calling yourself whatever floats your pool inflatable. I just can't own a title, or give anyone else one. We are Kiwis. A Jack is as good as his master. We travelled what must have seemed like lifetimes to escape classes and titles. I'm not in to it. I'm a Jack and master which quite possibly makes me a Jaster, or a Jagermeister, or quite aptly, a 'disaster'.