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There's a blog about it. http://taiwanexplorer.blogspot.tw/2011/09/everything-about-taiwanese-wedding.html http://taiwanexplorer.blogspot.tw/2011/09/everything

There's a blog about it. http://taiwanexplorer.blogspot.tw/2011/09/everything-about-taiwanese-wedding.html http://taiwanexplorer.blogspot.tw/2011/09/everything-about-t... It's not a legal fee, it's the price of the wedding and dowry. Besides, marriage doesn't even matter for immigration. "Partnership" means sharing the same bank account and address for 1 year. That means persuading her and her parents to let her move out of a comfortable rent-free family house, and into a small room with some foreign boy. I want to wait until marriage before I have sex, and sex is the first thing I'll do after I get married. If I marry her first, then I risk having children before I get the PR in a developed country. (I don't trust contraception, because I was a mistake when I was accidentally conceived.) So now I'm in a catch-22 situation - she won't move out until she gets married, but I can't bring her to another country unless we've been living together.

tdeck 9y ago
Wow, that's interesting and indeed very expensive. Certainly there are people in the US who spend that much on a wedding too, although my philosophy is that the more expensive a wedding is, the more stress and misery for everyone involved. I know this is a site about hacker topics and it's not my place to question your life choices, but it seems like sex is pretty important to you. That being the case, wouldn't you want to find out if you and your partner are compatible in bed before getting married? You can always use multiple forms of contraception in tandem to all but eliminate the risk of an unplanned pregnancy.
- peterburkimsher 9y ago
  It's not sex that I want, it's a family. Why have sex if I can't have kids? Why have kids if they have to kill me? Why have kids if I'm not allowed to live in the same country as them? No, I don't want to commit fornication in order find out whether we're "compatible in bed". That is partly due to the political problems, and partly due to my religious beliefs. My parents had a chance to kill me before I was born, and it would have been called "contraception". They didn't. I will choose to abstain from sex until I get this political mess sorted out though, so I can deny them the joy of grandchildren.

tdeck 9y ago

Wow, that's interesting and indeed very expensive. Certainly there are people in the US who spend that much on a wedding too, although my philosophy is that the more expensive a wedding is, the more stress and misery for everyone involved. I know this is a site about hacker topics and it's not my place to question your life choices, but it seems like sex is pretty important to you. That being the case, wouldn't you want to find out if you and your partner are compatible in bed before getting married? You can always use multiple forms of contraception in tandem to all but eliminate the risk of an unplanned pregnancy.

peterburkimsher 9y ago
It's not sex that I want, it's a family. Why have sex if I can't have kids? Why have kids if they have to kill me? Why have kids if I'm not allowed to live in the same country as them? No, I don't want to commit fornication in order find out whether we're "compatible in bed". That is partly due to the political problems, and partly due to my religious beliefs. My parents had a chance to kill me before I was born, and it would have been called "contraception". They didn't. I will choose to abstain from sex until I get this political mess sorted out though, so I can deny them the joy of grandchildren.