Marriage and the Erasure of My Name
3 min readAug 9, 2020
My husband thinks it’s funny when he gets mail addressed to Mr. Prater (that’s never been his name). Or better yet, Dr. and Mrs. Prater…he’s got a good sense of humor.
My husband and I met when I was in grad school. We dated long-distance for the last year I worked on my dissertation and I moved in with him after I was awarded my PhD. We didn’t marry until almost 8 years later, when I’d already been…
