I just saw someone else post asking why someone would want to get married, so I’m curious to see the opposite. Within the U.S., you can pretty much marry whoever you want as long as they are of age, and many legal benefits come with that. I personally know a couple who have been together for 20 years, and we live in a state that doesn’t recognize common-law marriage, so they are now considering it. Are there other situations where it simply makes sense to not get married?
It will be twenty years with my husband next year.
I would love to get actually married and not just call him my husband, but he is “an adult disabled since childhood” and if he gets married he loses all his health care and ssdi and such. (Unless he marries another “adult disabled since childhood” which I’m not)
Given how the government is slowly destroying all those things, maybe we’ll get married then die because we can’t live without them.