LafayetteLady
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Joined: 5/2/2007 From: Northern New Jersey Status: offline
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Well, legally those are very different things, lol (Marriage and Civil Union). However, getting the "government" involved in your relationship one way or another if you are planning on staying together until one of you dies. After all, there needs to be some kind of legal document (or should be) that protects both parties in regards to the assets they have acquired together. Of course, there are the scum buckets who think that the sub should just find someone else after and leaves her basically homeless, but I'm talking about responsible adults. We also have the whole need for the legal documents should one of you become ill and want the other to make medical decisions when you can't. If you aren't married, you don't get to make those decisions without a legal document. Of course, I could go on and on, but the point is that one way or another if you intend to protect your partner in the event of your untimely demise or illness, some legal document is necessary, whether it be marriage or something else, and that qualifies as "government" interference. Then again, if people don't protect themselves and they have read these boards for any length of time, then whatever happens is on them, because we certainly have enough discussions on it.
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