How important is marriage to you?
If I had it to do over again, I would not get married, even with kids.
Not very. I'm thinking I'm at the stage where I need to downsize, get things in order and ready for my daughter to deal with my possessions. Marriage might complicate that. Want to leave something that might make her life easier or more comfortable. Feel like any woman in my life might be doing the same. Leaving things for her offspring, like I'm doing.
About as important as having tastebuds in my rectum.
I'm all for having a committed relationship, but I don't need marriage. I've worked hard for what I have, including a decent credit rating. I'd definitely want to dfo a financial analysis to determine both the benefits & the negative impacts of a legal bond. Would it be beneficial in taxes? What about income/debt ratio? What liabilities would they bring to a marriage? Would this diminish possible retirement disbursement? What about impacys on health insurance & later medicare (if it still exists).
Lots to consider.
now that i am divorced, it has no importance after 29 years of marriage,
Never actually been married. Been asked, been engaged but non of my relationships worked for me. Marriage itself seems like an ok thing if I could find the one to share that piece of paper with. But for me the relationship would have to be worthy of a rest of my life commitment. Not into the whole wedding thing. Well maybe just the whole religious wedding thing. Maybe a sci fi or cosplay of fantasy sort of thing. But the traditional wedding bs would just feel like a waste of my time money life and mentality. One of my exes and I broke up because I did not want a wedding. Another relationship ended because I did not want to change my last name ... was open to hyphenating. And you should have seen the reaction to me asking if he would be will to to change his. Yeah these were some eye openers to me.
Very.
I'm married and my wife is the most important part of my life.
My marriage of almost 35 years was very important to me. Things are different now.
Not at all. I promised myself once is all.