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If you're going to have kids, I say get married, especially since if you're not married only one of you can claim the little brats on your taxes. If you're not having kids and making married isn't something you feel you need to do to prove your love to each other, then don't get married. That way, if things don't work out it will be hard, but there won't be lawyers involved.

Also, using 3 s's to spell is makes me thing you're a 14 year old girl.

There are various tax and legal safeguards for both parties when you enter a marriage. You have the ability to place your spouse on your helthcare coverage, not your roomate with benifits. If you combine bills and you payoff your roomates $40,000 credit card and $70,000 student loan and then the roomate moves out you have no legal recourse. If you are married the assets are divided eaqually and there is the posiability of alomoney, etc. If one of you suddenly die the estate passes to the next of kin not the roomate. In my opinion its a good idea if your living like your married to just go ahead and get married it makes you fight through the had times harder, and it makes the good times that much better.

@nalasenn7: Just a bit of friendly ribbing

@ruger9mm: except in the event of common marriage states. I think here in TN, it goes into effect after just 4 years... but as long as 7 years in other states.

There are all sorts of government benefits for single parents. In Tennessee, you are eligible for Tenncare, which is enough coverage that it pays for nearly all of your expenses if you decide to have a child.

I hate that there are people locally that don't get married when they discover they're expecting just because if they do, the gov't won't pay their hospital bills. Also, there are welfare benefits available to single parents that aren't available to married parents in the same income level.

If you ask me, it seems like they reward people for having children out of wedlock, and tax the crap out of people who get married first.

/end rant

If you have to ask, you probably shouldn't.

depends, do you want a wedding or do you want a marriage? 2 very different things. kim kardashian had a great wedding but there was no marriage of 2 becoming 1 there. if you just want a wedding, take a trip overseas and pay someone to marry you in a white dress on a beach. then enjoy a great honeymoon. if you want a marriage with a person, you can achieve that with some good life discussions before making a trip to city hall.
so do you just want the fairytale wedding or the marriage?