mv wrote:
Oh, thanks. That seems like a very specific, personal view of marriage (to me). And it doesn't really speak to the legal aspect of it (which is fine). Unless that's what you mean by "formally secure it".
Yes, "formally secure it" would mean register with community that we are now a committed couple. Don't try to split us up.
We went to Las Vegas to get married, so no big expensive wedding, no starting out $25,000 in debt for one day!
Have you considered why even governments encouraged marriage by offering different tax rates and other benefits? Have you considered that ideas and traditions that are many millenia old might have been retained because they do have great value?