7Seven said:fly girl said:I use to feel the same way. It wasnt that I didnt want to ever get married, I just couldnt see the point in it. Now, due to life circumstances, I see there are legal benefits that only married people get.
*Your social security can only be passed on to your husband or child. If you die single and childless, the government keeps it even though you worked all those years and paid into it.
*Your company retirment (depending on how it is set up) can only be drawn upon by your legal husband if you should die before you retire. Personally, I have worked to hard and put up with too much shit to have them keep anything I earned.
So, you agree that the business approach is better for the marriage long term? So pre-nups should be erected into marriages by the gov't also heh? At least both parties get protected.
sorry, I just dont have the interest in getting into what the government should or shouldnt be doing. Jut putting out some reality of what is today. There many things that have to be weighed when thinking of marriage.