If you can’t legally drain each other’s checking accounts, then you’re not “participating in the cultural institution”. It’s about trusting someone to merge le

If you can’t legally drain each other’s checking accounts, then you’re not “participating in the cultural institution”. It’s about trusting someone to merge legal entities with you, and trusting someone to pull the plug on your life support at the right time, and all the cultural baggage that entails. If you want a roommate you coparent with, that’s awesome. Go for it. But that’s not a marriage.