When their kids are being brats and she's upset she can't ever say "go handle your kids, Brody!" the way all married couples project the flaws of their children onto the other parent because she's also "Brody" and the meaning of her projection is lost. It's for subtle reasons like this that no remotely normal wife would call him by his last name mainly

I'd be very surprised if anybody here has any counter example of a woman they know who took on her husbands last name and calls him by his last name exclusively as if it's his first


It's not strange at all for a marine's buddies to call him by his last name. It is strange, however, when the wife does it