If you truly love your partner, does a ring and a ceremony really do anything?

I know there are certain legal situations where an official marriage changes who has certain rights, but aren’t those same rights available if you make other legally-official decisions E.G. a will or trusts, etc?

I’m generally curious why people get married beyond the “because I love them” when it costs so much money.

  • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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    10 days ago

    My marriage cost about 200 Euros and all of that went into Starfleet uniforms for the two of us. Our reason for getting married was financial, but we’d been engaged for 2 decades. Just hadn’t gotten around to actually doing it, heh. Nothing’s actually changed about our relationship since then because of course, why would it, we’d been together for 22 years before saying yes. But it’s just a nice, grand gesture to proclaim to the world in no uncertain terms that you intend to stay together.

    Edit: “no uncertain terms”. Not “uncertain terms” because that’s nonsense

      • Lumidaub@feddit.org
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        10 days ago

        You pass the test! Yaaay! <sweat> uh, yeah, everybody else fails the, uh, test that I, uh, intentionally setup by writing “in uncertain terms” instead of “in no uncertain terms”! <eyes darting around> Congrats!

        Remember, kids: always proofread at least two times 😜

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        Thank you, appreciated :)