anon please
I… actually somewhat agree with this.
I agree with all of this.
I completely agree.
Though to point out, if you do not marry your partner (we’re saying this if you are straight, considering a lot of places don’t let you marry if you wish to marry someone of your own gender) you will not get any of the monetary benefits that married couples get. And if your partner dies, then you also get nothing. No matter how long you were together. Marriage, in the end; is still about monetary interests. Which is the sad, hard truth. Marriage isn’t so much about love as it is about money. 8| And that’s both good and bad in many ways.
The confessions sums my parents up completely. They’ve been together for almost 23 years. Whenever someone asks my Mum about it she says “I don’t need a piece of paper to tell the world I love him.”
None of my aunts or uncles are married, but are all in defacto relationships of ten years or more.
Here in Australia, defacto couples (those living in a marriage-like situation for 12 months or more) get the same rights as married couples (because, ocassionally, our government gets things right)
My boyfriend and I become defacto in just over a month.
(Do I want to get married? Yes, I do. Why? Because I do, that’s why. :) ):< I wish it was that way in America.
Not getting married is something that both Karu and myself agree on, thankfully. Not that Kentucky would allow it in the first place.
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