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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you told your future wife yet you don’t want to marry her for financial gain?  I’m sorry, but this is ridiculous. I think you aren’t being honest with yourself about whether you want to commit. You want to maintain your “out”[/quote]

I'm a woman and I disagree.  You have to at least have the conversation.  If she thinks it's worth $10k or whatever a year, and he doesn't agree, *then* they have a problem.  [/quote]

OP here:

This is what we did. I had to tell her so we could make a decision together. It looks like it will cost us - on average - about an extra $10K per year (post tax dollars) for the next 5 years if we change our tax status from "single" to "married." Perhaps more if one or both of us get a big raise in the next 5 years.

We can replicate a de-facto marriage in many ways - "domestic partner" declaration with our respective employers, filing for "domestic partnership" with the District of Columbia (which regulates Healthcare and Decision Making, Taxes, Death and Inheritance, Property, Pre-marital Agreements & Alimony, Government Services, and Protections Under DC Domestic Violence Laws), draft wills and power of attorney (which we would do anyway after getting legally married), designate each other a primary beneficiary for life insurance plans, etc. We can get about 90% there at replicating a legal marriage without filing the paperwork with the state.

So that's basically it. [/quote]

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