Where is 'here', Gnu? There sure as hell isn't here, in UK.

I don't need to get out of any such thing wherever I am and am scared of no judge, having had two proper marriages & would scorn one of the other sort. Not trying to be prescriptive & have plenty of friends that do 'partners'; but marriage happens to be my default position.

{Dr Johnson on 2nd marriages, in reply to Boswell ~~"When I censured a gentleman of my acquaintance for marrying a second time, as it shewed a disregard of his first wife, he said, "Not at all, Sir. On the contrary, were he not to marry again, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage; but by taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by shewing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time."
Boswell: Life
My situation pre4cisely}