I would marry pumpkin head if she is cool!

we also have what is called a L.A.T.


it's legal even.

Living Apart Together = LAT

stretch those imaginations!!!!!!!! c'mon!! you can DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jess wrote:
"It's fine Abra, I heard you.....you can go to your room until puberty strikes, if you wish to,"

You mean if I go to my room puberty might strike?

I'm on my way!

hmmmm this sounds interesting...........lat.......

All I can say you better be able to be together and committed to each other before you get married to them. Getting married just seals it for some so they feel it does. But getting married and having that piece of paper will not do it for that is something between two people that will happen and has nothing to do with a piece of paper. For some gettng married does make some work harder at keeping the relationship together but not always.

Two can live just as happy with out getting married if they are satisfied with that some still want to get married for it seems more of a reality that they are actually a couple.

Just all depends on the two involved.

Never if she is in the prison of drama

so am i hearing right that because me and my youngest son's dad was "living" together w/o a wedding certificate for 8 years we were married? I hope not

All depends on what state and how you split but yes if you had wanted to push it you could have went through a divorce on common law marriage. Which would have only done any good if there was property that the other wanted.

You might want to check the laws in your state. That could indeed be the case. But, mabye not.
I believe that marriage shows a commitment beyond word or feelings or gestures. It shows to the whole world that you promise to hold that one person above all others for the rest of your life. It places a level of accountability on yourself and your spouse that nothing else in the world can duplicate. I myself have found the one for me. And one day, I will announce that I promise to hold her higher than any other in the world, for the rest of our lives.

Indiana Txs..not sure but i really hope we weren't considered married

Look as long as your not together now it is not in any written papers saying so I would leave the issue alone. You go to asking and then they could say oh yeah you have to get a divorce my little sister and her beau friend lived together what got them was they bought a house together in order for the courts to set the child support and all for there son well they made them go through a bunch of crap due to that if they had not bought the house together they would not have had done it. But when you go asking a lawyer questions sometimes your asking for trouble.

Its over and done with would leave it alone.

I know some thing common law has a certain amount of time before it occurs oppppppps sorrrry but most states not so. In Texas if you proclaim yur married, use there last name or actually just live with them guess what is is consider common law. But most when they split they split and go there own ways and dont think anything about it which is how it should be then ya got the gold diggers lol that if they really want to hammer your ass they can holler common law and take you for what they can get.


So watch who ya live with lol

you aren't kidding then. he might try to get my car since i have a better one then he does...lmao

lol he cant lol shssssssssssh but no **** my brothre it cost him more to get rid of a lady he lived with for less than 6 months then it did his first wife he was married to for like 15 go figure it sucked lmao

I think that ultimately if you truly love someone you want to marry them. You can be in a committed relationship without being married, perhaps live together for years, but obviously a "fear" of some sort is still there. If you were totally fearless about getting married, then you would do it. IMO, people who live together for years without getting married want to keep it that way so if things fail there is an easy way out. That way, there will be no messy divorce, annoying papers to contend with.

I for one am terrified of marriage. However, I also did not live with my ex. I guess I'm old fashioned.

Bay, I agree marriage is a good thing, It completely devotes oneself to the soul of another.. It is becoming less and less important to people now a days. I am not biased on sex before or waiting for marriage. I did not wait, but if anyone wants too that is their option. I still believe Marriage is the ultimate goal for ones life.

Iowa & Nebraska no longer recognize the "Common Law"/living together for a set time relationships, as any form of marriage.

"Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience"
Oscar Wilde

I think the only real thing important about marriage is the wedding vows. The whole purpose is to make a promise that you'd never break peroid. Can someone live without making those promises? sure, can they be happy sure? but at some point weather its a ceramony or not, for it to last both people make that commitment to themselfs for the other person at some point.

I am really glad to see that I am not the only one that looks at marriage as a beautifull thing.