• LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz
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    9 days ago

    There are a LOT of benefits to being married. Especially if one of you needs to make legal decisions for the other one.

    That was one of the main drivers for pushing for gay marriage in the 2000’s. There were a lot of high profile cases where one of the two were nearing the end of their life, and the family that were pissed about having a “gay son” who hadn’t talked to them in 20 years were the ones making the decisions instead of the husband who wasn’t technically a husband in the legal system for 20 years.

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      9 days ago

      conservative gays : but no, we don’t need that, that’s a straight institution. More boats in my throat please.

      edit : boots , not boats, but fuck it, imma leave it in

    • phx@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      There are, but there are also a lot of drawbacks to bring divorced multiple times. This also depends on how long and far the person is taking at the “getting to know each other” stage before marriage, etc as well