Here's an example of why legal marriage is good. I have a friend with hippie inclinations, who had been living with an older man for a good many years. She was an idealist. She quit a good job to strike out on her own as an industrial hygienist. She went to Nicaragua for a year to teach worker safety. Finally, he prevailed on her to marry him. WHY? So when he died, she would have his pension and Social Security. Wake up and smell the reality, people!
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