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Why get married if you're not doing it for better or for worse. I'm not asking sanctimoniously, I'm actually asking. Literally just date, it's fine.
by ykevinator 7y ago
Why get married if you're not doing it for better or for worse. I'm not asking sanctimoniously, I'm actually asking. Literally just date, it's fine.
- leetcrew 7y agoI obviously agree that it's a very bad idea to get married if you don't intend to stick it out, but it's not hard to see why people might do it anyway. they might live in a conservative community/family where children out of wedlock is still stigmatized. there is sometimes a cultural expectation that a person (especially a woman) will be married by a certain age. they might see their friends getting married and think it seems nice. these are all bad reasons, but it doesn't mean they aren't powerful ones.
- jdminhbg 7y agoYou can be as into for better or for worse as you want, but it doesn't matter if your spouse isn't.
- scarejunba 7y agoCan't keep your foreign partner in the country.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoMarriage comes with a lot of rights that dating doesn't give you. I read an interesting article years ago about a couple of idealistic, young artists who were against the idea of marriage. They lived together and had a baby together. The guy began saying at parties "My wife is pregnant" rather than "My girlfriend is pregnant" so people would congratulate him instead of saying "Bummer, dude." They were having to jump through so many hoops to arrange wills, insurance, etc to cover things that would have been simple and automatic if they got married they began contemplating just getting married.