I mean there are also a lot of legal benefits and protections extended to a spouse that aren’t extended to a boy/girlfriend. Depending on where you live, could mean tax credits, inheritance, how ownership of accrued assets is handled, priority guest access to ER if one gets injured, etc.
You can get married in a courthouse without any religious connotations and call it a civil union instead if you want. The religious elements are strictly optional, and I think some codified protections for a significant other significant enough to be your spouse make sense in a way that they don’t for your new girlfriend of 3 weeks.
Because it makes others like banks, the state, hospitals easier to legally deal with it. And it obviously gives both partners more security. The standard example being one partner focuses on childcare instead of career who without marriage would be left with nothing in case of a split up.
I mean there are also a lot of legal benefits and protections extended to a spouse that aren’t extended to a boy/girlfriend. Depending on where you live, could mean tax credits, inheritance, how ownership of accrued assets is handled, priority guest access to ER if one gets injured, etc.
I call that: state sponsored religious entrapment.
You can get married in a courthouse without any religious connotations and call it a civil union instead if you want. The religious elements are strictly optional, and I think some codified protections for a significant other significant enough to be your spouse make sense in a way that they don’t for your new girlfriend of 3 weeks.
There was and is absolutely nothing religious about my marriage. Where are you getting this from? It’s a strictly legal contract, not more not less.
But, why even make it a legal contract?
Because it makes others like banks, the state, hospitals easier to legally deal with it. And it obviously gives both partners more security. The standard example being one partner focuses on childcare instead of career who without marriage would be left with nothing in case of a split up.