Talk about the matrix...i feel like i am watching some insane plot!
The legal benefits do not add up to anything, period. I bet you're the type of guy who buys a truck because you can write it off or some other stupid **** like that, because that's the category all your 'legal benefits' fall into. If those items you listed are what you used as basis for getting married, then you are a dumb son of a b*tch.
And yes, my view is extreme. Do yourself a favor, unplug yourself from the matrix. You could learn a little bit. Your shaming techniques (pointing at "contempt for the opposite gender") was very predictable.
1- The legal benefits do not add up to anything? I really dont know where to go with this. You are so clearly ignorant or angry with reality that you arent able or willing to recognize something as obvious as legally benefitting from marriage.
Estate inheriting.
SS, SSDi, and military benefits.
Insurance benefits from spouse's employer.
FMLA- time off allowed to care for spouse.
Receiving wages, disability, or retirement plan benefits from deceased spouse.
Marital communication privilage.
Visitation rights in jail
etc etc etc. Damn you are a moron. The benefits should be clear. If not, just look at the examples above and think about how they would help. Help = benefit.
2- You seem to equate marital benefits only with financial gain. Thats a shame because anyone who marries for financial benefit is in it for the wrong reason.
3- The reasons i listed arent why i married, they are simple benefits of marriage beyond a religious union. That is what i was responding to- the accusation that the only point to getting married is a religious one. I pointed to all the legal protection benefits as ways in which marriage is beneficial outside of religious reasons.
Damn you cant follow threads very well.
4- Unplug from the Matrix? Ok Morpheus, tell me what i am missing here that i should see. Ha ha, i feel like you are trying to drop some Allegory of the Cave on me here by telling me to open my eyes and see that the reality i see thru shadows isnt a reality at all. Please, by all means, enlighten me to what i am missing by being 'plugged in'.