• BigLime@lemmy.ml
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    20 hours ago

    I’m fr curious if this can work. If it does, it seems beyond impossible to find a 25 year old college woman who would even want to marry

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      Two 18 year old students about to start university get married. I think it can even be same sex, marriage is marriage.

      Remember Marriage isn’t for life! You and your partner could get married with the understanding this is just a college marriage.

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        “Hey, let’s just get married to be eligible for benefits. Yeah, we’ll just pinky promise that we won’t ever abuse the hell out of our ‘partner’ who we now share every single responsibility with. I also took out a huge loan to buy a boat, why are you asking, dear? Half of it is technically yours, why aren’t you happy?”

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          18 hours ago

          two penniless students are judgement proof, so even in this scenario when they divorced there wouldn’t be anything to recover. As a 18 year old with nothing, as long as you don’t have kids, there is almost nothing to lose.

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        19 hours ago

        That’s a whole abuse of the purpose of marriage, though

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          19 hours ago

          A loop hole that is technically correct is still correct.

          What is the purpose of marriage?

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            Legally it is a shortcut to establishment of a number of implied contracts, tells the courts how to unwind those contracts, and rights. In some cases the implied contracts are more effective than written ones. Medical decisions and visitation rights being first ones I can think of.

            I sm not a lawyer.

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            17 hours ago

            Two people bound together for life for the purposes of creating a family

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              “You shouldn’t use marriage to stop yourself being legally chained to your parents. The purpose of marriage is to legally chain you to your spouse.”

              If people could “divorce” their parents you wouldn’t have to worry about this.

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              Yeah, you can miss me with the religious bullshit. This is a legal loophole in a legal system.

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                11 hours ago

                If it was for religious reasons, I would have specified it as a “man and a woman”

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                  Then what is your basis for it only being between two people? You’re defining it just like religion does because that’s where you got the idea even if you don’t realize it.

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                14 hours ago

                Only as a last resort. You shouldn’t get married without intending to stay together for life.

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          You’re thinking about this all wrong. The age of marriage and childbearing have been going up. Think of the kids who would just decide fuck it might as well just stay married and do this. This could be the arranged marriage of the future.