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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm one of these "foolish" women, except I'm the one who doesn't want to get married. A wedding sounds like a nightmare to me, and divorce is expensive. We own a house together, have a child together, have been together for nearly a decade, his mother lives with us -- the only thing we don't have is a legal piece of paper. I'm not sure we need one. We might do a courthouse wedding one of these days but maybe we won't. It just feels unnecessary. I have a career and can provide (more meagerly, admittedly) for myself and our child, and I am the sole beneficiary of his life insurance as he is for mine. He would pay child support if we split. So we have those bases covered.

I find it highly judgmental and obnoxious when the women and men on this board are so condescending to those who choose not to marry their long-term partners. Glass houses, people. [/quote]

OP here, and you're right. In your situation it sounds like you both contribute more or less equally and have decided to not marry mutually. I'm concerned with situations in which the women do want to marry, the men don't, and the women are in a vulnerable/dependent position.[/quote]

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