I’m 36 and have been with my current girlfriend for almost 5 years now - my longest relationship yet. We live together & everything else couply, just not married. I see marriage as unnecessary pressure that has a tendency to put strain on the relationship. Right now if we’re happy together we stay, if we’re not we split. Simple. Marriage complicates it.
Marriage is just a formality, with the government. So there’s probably very little benefit if your jurisdiction recognizes defacto relationships, if it doesn’t there are some advantages, but also jurisdiction dependent.
Weddings are 100% bullshit.
100% agree. Marriage is a choice. Weddings carry a tremendous amount of unnecessary baggage, social obligations, and opportunities for the wedding industry to leech off of you.
Fully agree. We got married at the courthouse. 30 bucks I think for filing. We’ve always been happy with that.
Wedding we priced out. For only 50 people on the cheap we found it’s be minimum 15k in my area. Fuck that. May have a small thing on an anniversary, but not a wedding
This right there. We married because it’s easier and cheaper than notarizing our joint possessions.