Posted on 03/02/2010 10:00:52 AM PST by cajuncow
MaryAnne Lopes of Windham, Maine, had no intentions of pulling threads from the nation’s social fabric by living with her then boyfriend, Joe. She just wanted to save some money.
The couple, who celebrated their sixth wedding anniversary on Sunday, moved in together because it was cheaper and because she was living with her parents following a divorce from her first husband. “You try telling my father, the Reverend Dr. Young, I will not be home tonight!” she said, laughing about dates with Joe.
But while Lopes, now 40, considered her protestant minister father’s possible discomfort with overnighters, he raised no objections to her moving in with Joe, and happily presided over the couple’s wedding less than two years later.
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Hmmmm. Common law marriage takes care of this problem. Live together long enough, you’re married, at least as far as the court is concerned.
I've had people say that I got married too young as a man aged 26. Essentially, the logic goes that you're too young to get married until you're almost 30, but you'll probably not be able to restrain from having sex from age 16 to 30, so society will bless your string of sexual partners until you settle on one. And you better not settle until you have a degree, career, own a house, car, etc.
Not necessarily. Some states don’t recognise common law marriage. Utah doesn’t.
“she was living with her parents following a divorce from her first husband.”
This is all I have to say about this particular ‘example’.
I’m 28, not married, haven’t slept with anybody. Don’t see why it’s so hard to wait. Yeah I understand that it can be difficult for people who live in different parts of the country, but you do what you can. Rent a place for 6 months out there.
I know men and women who went through 3 or more live in partners (1-2 years each relationship). And yet they still consider themselves “never married”.
There are those women who follow a man around the country while he gets his advanced degree only to see him marry someone else when he graduates.
What idiots.
Beautifully done!
My husband and I are “we”.
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