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Good times. Can someone remind me of any good reason to marry a woman nowadays?

by grondilu 8y ago

hd4 8y ago
Not really, the family courts in most Western nations have made it completely untenable.
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hopler 8y ago
To raise children, to have regular access to safe and intimate sex, and all the lifestyle, cost saving, and health benefits of cohabitation with someone, in the expanded pool of potential partners that includes women who want marriage. But opting out of family life and ending your gene line is fine, it increases competition for the men who remain.
- quickthrower2 8y ago
  None of that requires literal marriage, although that lifestyle is essentially the same as marriage.
- psyclobe 8y ago
  > to have regular access to safe and intimate sex lol, you've never been married have you
hexane360 8y ago
Because you love them and want to express that?
fpalmans 8y ago
Marriage is a formal agreement between two parties with respect to the rules through which they will break up.
nn3 8y ago
I thought it still had some tax advantages. The lawyers benefit from it at least. Otherwise it's a lose / lose situation for everyone.
yesenadam 8y ago
A good reason: If it's culturally expected and universal in the country you live in. Or even in expected in another country, e.g. I almost married my Turkish girlfriend a few years ago. (The relationship ended before that happened, very long story) I'm in Australia, but that really felt like we were in Turkey. Couldn't walk down the street holding hands, because Turkish people would see and the family would find out. It seemed having a boyfriend is a kind of shameful, bad thing for a woman, but suddenly if you get married, it's all wonderful, you're no longer fair game for harrassment etc. I've never wanted to get married in the least (it never came up with any girlfriend I'd had before that), and don't know how anyone can promise to love another forever - but to make my partner and her daughter's lives better, in many ways, so easily, seemed a very good reason.
- eeZah7Ux 8y ago
  > ... to make my partner and her daughter's lives better, in many ways, so easily, seemed a very good reason. By obeying the "boyfriend is a kind of shameful, bad thing for a woman" logic one becomes responsible of "perpetuating" this backward, hurtful culture.
nextweek2 8y ago
It saves inheritance tax. If you're married a lot of things are easier if one of you passes away, otherwise things have to be prearranged. Are all household bills in joint names, are all investments with named beneficiaries, are all assets defined in a will, are all credit agreements covered, are there end of life choices documented?

Good times. Can someone remind me of any good reason to marry a woman nowadays?

hd4 8y ago

Not really, the family courts in most Western nations have made it completely untenable.

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hopler 8y ago

To raise children, to have regular access to safe and intimate sex, and all the lifestyle, cost saving, and health benefits of cohabitation with someone, in the expanded pool of potential partners that includes women who want marriage. But opting out of family life and ending your gene line is fine, it increases competition for the men who remain.

quickthrower2 8y ago
None of that requires literal marriage, although that lifestyle is essentially the same as marriage.
psyclobe 8y ago
> to have regular access to safe and intimate sex lol, you've never been married have you

hexane360 8y ago

Because you love them and want to express that?

fpalmans 8y ago

Marriage is a formal agreement between two parties with respect to the rules through which they will break up.

nn3 8y ago

I thought it still had some tax advantages. The lawyers benefit from it at least. Otherwise it's a lose / lose situation for everyone.

yesenadam 8y ago

A good reason: If it's culturally expected and universal in the country you live in. Or even in expected in another country, e.g. I almost married my Turkish girlfriend a few years ago. (The relationship ended before that happened, very long story) I'm in Australia, but that really felt like we were in Turkey. Couldn't walk down the street holding hands, because Turkish people would see and the family would find out. It seemed having a boyfriend is a kind of shameful, bad thing for a woman, but suddenly if you get married, it's all wonderful, you're no longer fair game for harrassment etc. I've never wanted to get married in the least (it never came up with any girlfriend I'd had before that), and don't know how anyone can promise to love another forever - but to make my partner and her daughter's lives better, in many ways, so easily, seemed a very good reason.

eeZah7Ux 8y ago
> ... to make my partner and her daughter's lives better, in many ways, so easily, seemed a very good reason. By obeying the "boyfriend is a kind of shameful, bad thing for a woman" logic one becomes responsible of "perpetuating" this backward, hurtful culture.

nextweek2 8y ago

It saves inheritance tax. If you're married a lot of things are easier if one of you passes away, otherwise things have to be prearranged. Are all household bills in joint names, are all investments with named beneficiaries, are all assets defined in a will, are all credit agreements covered, are there end of life choices documented?