This is more common than you might think—and there's a reason for it.
. “But she wants to take my name. So, it’s going to be very confusing, for sure.”— Brett Pelham
If not quite narcissism, there is actually a term for what’s going on here: implicit egotism. “We are strongly attracted, for reasons we’re not typically aware of, to anything that resembles really any aspect of the self, from our name, to our birthday number, to our street address growing up, to the names of loved ones like siblings and parents,” said Brett Pelham, a psychology professor at Montgomery College in Maryland who studies our unconscious biases.
. Same-full-name couples are harder to come by. Pelham cited one of his favorite examples, Kelly Hildebrandt and Kelly Hildebrandt, who each had that name before they met, and actually met through sharing a name: The female Kelly Hildebrandt found the male one by searching her name on Facebook. They married in 2009 (and
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