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"Community property reduces marriage to an amoral business relationship!"
Listen, I had three reasons to get married and none them were about love: a) to make my spouse my next of kin in case I'm unconscious in the hospital, b) to make the process of getting children easier, and c) those sweet, sweet tax deductions.
The difference between marriage and a long-term, cohabiting relationship is that it's a legal and financial institution. If we lived in some theoretical utopia where marriage really was just a piece of paper? I wouldn't have bothered.
Listen, I had three reasons to get married and none them were about love: a) to make my spouse my next of kin in case I'm unconscious in the hospital, b) to make the process of getting children easier, and c) those sweet, sweet tax deductions.
The difference between marriage and a long-term, cohabiting relationship is that it's a legal and financial institution. If we lived in some theoretical utopia where marriage really was just a piece of paper? I wouldn't have bothered.