If you truly love your partner, does a ring and a ceremony really do anything?
I know there are certain legal situations where an official marriage changes who has certain rights, but aren’t those same rights available if you make other legally-official decisions E.G. a will or trusts, etc?
I’m generally curious why people get married beyond the “because I love them” when it costs so much money.
My marriage cost about 200 Euros and all of that went into Starfleet uniforms for the two of us. Our reason for getting married was financial, but we’d been engaged for 2 decades. Just hadn’t gotten around to actually doing it, heh. Nothing’s actually changed about our relationship since then because of course, why would it, we’d been together for 22 years before saying yes. But it’s just a nice, grand gesture to proclaim to the world in no uncertain terms that you intend to stay together.
Edit: “no uncertain terms”. Not “uncertain terms” because that’s nonsense
I think “no uncertain terms” is the phrase you want there.
You pass the test! Yaaay! <sweat> uh, yeah, everybody else fails the, uh, test that I, uh, intentionally setup by writing “in uncertain terms” instead of “in no uncertain terms”! <eyes darting around> Congrats!
Remember, kids: always proofread at least two times 😜
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Thank you, appreciated :)
I’m in the same boat. My other half has been stuck with me for nearly twenty years now and bigger and better things have come up that have needed the money spent on it.
The bit of paper will come in handy if one of us kicks the bucket though, or even when it comes to claiming certain tax allowances in the UK. I just want to make sure they’re sorted financially when I end up brown bread, and proving their connection to me is going to me one of the last things on the list in the immediate aftermath of a bereavement.
I’m not arsed one way or another about it though.