...we're told she is married. The husband left her and there is no mention of divorce. She calls herself/is addressesd as MRS Walker. How did she get married or have I missed something?
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If you aren't touched by the little deaf girl...It's too late. YOU'RE DEAD!!
The divorce would be assumed (not to mention implied by the fact that she could remarry) ..... even if the word "divorce" is never explicitly spoken.
Plenty of women who changed their surname when they got married don't revert to using their maiden name when they get divorced, for various reasons.
The same can apply to the choice of honorific. Miss wouldn't feel right to a lot of people. Not everybody likes to use Ms. If you're still working at the same place you were before divorcing then there will be a fair amount of inertia from people already being in the habit of using Mrs for you; plus your child's friends and teachers (etc.) will tend to default to calling you Mrs (child's-surname). For some people the difference between Mrs and one of the others isn't worth the hassle of repeatedly correcting all of those people, so they just go with it.
Exactly. When my mom got divorced when I was 3 se kept her married name so we'd all have the same name (not to mention her maiden name was European and most people can't pronounce it). She is 67 now so no way appropriately called "miss". Stuff just happens and can't be explained in a 2 hour time frame.
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I was married for 15 years have been divorced for 20 years and kept my married name. Too much trouble to change it back and it had been my name for so long that it became MY name. And the having the same name as the kids.
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