I’m not saying get a loveless marriage to have children, but do get in a loveless marriage to save on taxes, pool resources, living separately, not having sex, like roommates. I’d be playing the system.
Am I broken?
I know at least like 3 friends/couples who married due to finances/health insurance. I think in all cases they probably would have married anyway but the timing of the marriage was for financial reasons.
Im literally looking into a courthouse wedding to get my partner on my health insurance. We’ve been together 8 years, we love each other regardless of a government certificate.
Pre-nup
Getting married for love was imo, a brief fad, and a gross perversion of marriage, it’s always been about wealth and inheritance
i cant make a more articulate point rn sorry
Is that not technically the legal purpose of marriage to begin with???
I sort of did this once.
I don’t know if I would exactly recommend it but if you do, work out a prenup with them first.
It’s EXTREMELY important to work out the sort of details about how things will be divided and unwound in advance
You’re not broken.
The world’s broken and you’re coping.
i was going to say this.
forcing us to cope is why the epstein class is able to do so much bad shit to us.
No? Lots of people do that. Love isn’t for everyone.
Isn’t it called a marriage of convenience? Usually those are done for immigration purposes, but it could be other conveniences too
Yes it is. Came here to say this.
You’re reacting to the increasing costs of the means of basic existence. In a way it’s rational, though going as far as marriage is a big commitment. If you found someone who felt exactly the way you do and is willing to marry you for the same reasons, I don’t see anything wrong with going through with it. You’d definitely want a prenuptual agreement in case it doesn’t work out, though.
It might be easier to live with friends or family and pool resources with them, though ofc it wouldn’t be the same tax benefit. Maybe talk to a professional accountant to learn if you have ways to save on taxes even without getting married.
Having been in the poly community, pooling resources without some kind of contract is going to end messy.
What if one of you end up in a relationship with someone else and want to marry them instead? You’d have to go through a divorce with your fake spouse and that could get messy if you bought a house together or share other assets.
Idk how beneficial the tax benefits would be without kids. Pooling resources is sick tho.
Marriage, as a romantic notion, is about demonstrating a lifelong commitment to another person.
Marriage, as a legal institution, is about creating an economic incentive for intergenerational land ownership among the government-favored ethnic group.
I might suggest that you, at a bare minimum, like the other person even if you’re not romantically fixated on them. The marriage process comingles assets and incomes in a way that’s very difficult to unwind over time. Idk if I’d consider you “broken” for thinking about it. But you might want to reconsider what you’re getting into, especially if there’s someone other than your prospective partner who does have a romantic interest on one (or, fuck it, both) of you.
For folks who are married, the joke has been made a thousand times “We should have done this when we were poorer”. And I even have a friend who did a court-house wedding, months in advance of the family celebration, just to get the tax rebate sooner.
But, it’s a big decision. You’re sharing credit as a single household. Depending on the state, your partner can have all sorts of medical and legal authority that constrains you. And if you don’t even live with the person you’re married to? The economic benefits slide off quite a bit.
I think it’s generally smart to marry someone you’ve been living with for more than 2 years. If you don’t like that idea why are you dating them still?
I would do a lot of research on the how much money you would be saving by doing that.
Other than the health insurance aspect you can pool resources with someone and not be married.
What do you mean by living separately, as in different bedrooms in the same house.
