Posted on 10/19/2022 8:33:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I cohabitated with wife #1 for two years and we got divorced. Did not cohabitate with my current wife prior to our marriage and things are a lot better. May also be a coincidence.
We told our kids marriage is not only godly but meant to protect the weaker partner ... usually the wife and always the kids.
Case in point ... cohabiting friends ... he died ... she loses the house.
We had a 50 percent success rate. :(
It's more of a recording device. Records are important in the event that marriages are contested.
“ and she said: “The woman who lives with a man befor marriage KNOWS he broke the rules to do so. She doesn’t trust him. In her mind, he’ll break the rules again and have sex with another woman besides her.”
Says the woman who is breaking the exact same rules as the man
I think it’s for several reasons….testing the waters to see if it “works out,” quicker and easier, financial etc
But in the end, none of those matter. Getting married is about navigating those risks together.
We could also entertain the idea that it’s vastly more economical and for tax purposes quite positive to be a single mother. However, it’s detrimental to the children and future generations to have an in tact traditional family even if that means fewer tax advantages.
Nothing licenses record can’t be done with a simple contract or prenuptial contract.
Churches or others could record each marriage but without government license.
The point is, Governments use licenses as a money maker to oversee marriages. there is no need for them under current law in most state.
“ We’re also seeing people marry but once the kids are raised they think they’ve done their duty so divorce moving on to the next phase of their life.
This is of course more advantageous for a man than a woman.
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Oh please it’s not more advantageous to a man to accumulate assets for decades and then have a sorry spouse walk out and take at least half of it cause the kids are gone
The only thing advantageous for the man is he does have to be married to someone who clearly doesn’t love him and he doesn’t have to carry her load anymore
Does not have to be married to the wanch anymore
Marriage has lost its prestige and respect now that same-sex-marriage has become common in our society. The availability of abortion makes it even more convenient.
My wife and I, our siblings, and most of our friends are in our 80’s or will soon be there.
What we are seeing people avoiding remarriage after the first spouse dies, and the number one reason are his supposedly adult children and in particular the women offspring of the male widower.
Instead of being happy that their widowed Dads found a nice woman to spend the rest of his life with, they often become open saboteurs of Dad’s remarriage.
These blood baths often become even worse open warfare if Dad dies and leaves most of his estate to his second wife not to the so called adult children of the first marriage.
Which must be officially recorded by the government in courthouses, so you've just circled around to the same point.
Churches or others could record each marriage but without government license.
True, but churches fail, split, have falling out among members, and may not be the best record keepers.
Governments use licenses as a money maker to oversee marriages...
If governments intend to make money from the nominal fee charged for marriage licenses, keeping them on file and protected in perpetuity, then they are going to go out of business from a crappy business model.
There is no net revenue generated from these fees in the long, or even intermediate, term.
Maybe the current crop of American young men know better than to talk to females?
They still exist.
My son dated for a year, was engaged for a year, and married his bride last Saturday. They did not live together before marriage.
They still exist.
My son dated for a year, was engaged for a year, and married his bride last Saturday. They did not live together before marriage.
They still exist.
My son dated for a year, was engaged for a year, and married his bride last Saturday. They did not live together before marriage.
WE will just agree to disagree, I think government has no business being in the marriage license business. If you want to protect yourself in the event of a divorce, get a prenuptial.
Governments issuing licenses was a key factor in granting gay people the right to marriage, they had a case that you can’t issue licenses to one group and not the other which is what was happening, gay people could have always written a contract to get the same rights as married people in terms of settlement of assets and child support in the event someone wanted to break the contract aka divorce.
That is correct. However, the women seem to have a worse trust issue over that circumstance than do men.
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