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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Religious sacrament is important. So is social conformity and convention. A cohabitating couple is not viewed in the same way as a married couple.

And contrary to belief, "common law" does NOT afford you the same rights as marriage. You have access to benefits, taxation, etc., but if something happens to your partner, you do not have automatic access to property, assets, power of attorney, and the like.

If you choose to live together get a lawyer and get it spelled out if you want to be treated as a married couple. It doesn't matter "how" you live. As a partner, you can put all the payments into a home, etc. and if your partner dies, have NO right to that home if it was solely in their name. This is unlike a married couple.

There are benefits of marriage, financially, socially, legally, spiritually. Don't be fooled thinking a spade is a spade. It's not. It's like a club and a spade - similar, but different.

Oh, I'm PP who has been waiting 11 years. I know of what I speak. [/quote]

Well established fact, except that OP did not say she wanted marriage for these civil benefits. She was implicitly clear that she wanted marriage for love and emotional security. Obviously she is not getting emotional security now, with or without marriage, so the overwhelming advice is for her to call time on the relationship...no?[/quote]

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