Now that we have institutionalized the concept of domestic partnership, there is no reason for any man to ever get married. You can share a domicile, share health and retirement benefits, raise children, stay together forever and live happily ever after. If a woman does not love and trust you enough to do these things without the benefit of marriage, she is not a woman you want to marry.
As a man, the legal risks of divorce are all yours. You have nothing to gain by marriage at all.
After 20 or 30 years of successful domestic partnership, I suppose it would be OK to marry but be sure to get a pre-nup that protects you both.
All of my college friends married, some three or four times. They are all broken men, regardless of the level of success they have achieved in other areas of endeavor in their lives, regardless of whether or not they ever got divorced at all.
I have been with the same woman for thirty years, the only bond being friendship and respect. We never had to work very hard. We do what we like. We go where we want. We are totally financially self sufficient at this point, whether we work or not.
Our parents were never happy about our relationship, so what. We never had kids, so maybe we are a case of arrested development, so what. I’m 56 years old and happier than I’ve ever been.
Marriage is a joke and it’s a joke that is played on you.
