Marriage of convenience
By Anonymous - This FML is from back in 2009 but it's good stuff - United States
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He's a real winner isn't he?
oh my god, your life is terrible!!!!!1111
alex_vik
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#14 - My guess is the people went 'FIRST', 'SECOND', 'THIRD', etc.
rakhil11
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36-idc, still want 2 c them
vt_mruhlin
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Tax benefits are no joke. If I had been married filing jointly last year I would have saved $5000. All this hoopla about gay marriage... just let me marry myself.
your "serious boyfriend????" is that in stead of your other "non-serious boyfriend?!?!?!?!"
I don't really know why but I would love to be married one day. To me, it's kind of like a "seal the deal" sort of thing - like it's official. And it's the first step in a new life filled with love, romance and happiness - all spent with somebody special. That and kids would be awesome. =) Maybe I'm just an old fashioned man... (or need mental help)
Lol, he's cheap in my opinion.
Cheap is what makes millionaires.
Meh, nothing wrong with it. As much as I like to tease my boyfriend about the thought, I'd really only want to get married for the 1000+ federal/state benefits/rights/responsibilities you get, including things like medical/legal proxy, like #28 said. Plus I imagine it'd make the paperwork easier when we want to buy a house together, or if one of us gets a job overseas, or for insurance purposes. Tl;dr if he loves you and neither of you are especially religious, it's no biggie, really. It's not like marriage is a chain that'd keep him there forever if he didn't want to be.
A mood-killer for sure, but when you look at it, that is the only real practical benefit of marriage.
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EVERYONE likes tax benefits, I´m sure he was just joking if he is serious boyfriend
i hate when comments get moderated. i get way more annoyed by moderated comments than i do by comments that are obnoxious/offensive/inappropriate (or break some other rule they moderate comments for). Who cares? I think we can handle it. But to the OP... the tax benefits are the the only reason i would get married. you can love each other, live together, make a lifetime commitment, have kids etc. without actually getting married.