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Originally Posted by ktimephoenix  No hard feelings on this end, and i hope what i say comes out right. |
No hard feelings here either, I try to put a disclaimer when I'm not precisely coherent because I'm usually a bit more blunt.
Unfortunately in this country there really aren't any legal protections in place for co-habiting couples. Here in Texas to even be considered a common law marriage, you have to go to the courthouse and file paperwork. My response to that is 'wtf?!' If you have to do all that, why not just get married anyway?
And some of the things that you have done in/for your relationship...you are right there are many men that wouldn't do it even if they had the ring...and for those that don't, many would have been out the door as well.
For the record, I am not trying to imply that a married relationship is particuarly anymore important than any other LTR...but damn it, my stance on that is probably the only old fashioned/conservative thing about me and I'm going to stick to it.
And I think that if you are going into it thinking...eh if this doesn't work, no biggie we can just get divorced...then you aren't going into a marriage with the right attitude. (Altho the judge that married my ex- and I did make a joke to the effect that they were a one stop shop and if things didn't work out then they could take care of that too....
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