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user-inactivated  ·  4343 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lil's Book of Questions: Will You Marry Me?

Well that's just bizarre. I had heard of getting married for tax purposes but ...

I have several good friends who have chosen to go the civil union route. However, what they all have in common is: they are extremely progressive people in other aspects of their lives, and they aren't in particular contact with their families anymore. When/if I start to think about getting married, I will happily enter into a civil union instead -- but the prerequisite is, of course, finding a woman who hasn't been inundated with the cult of marriage. And this is low on my list of desirable characteristics, so marriage is probably in the cards.