Well, it’s outre, I know, but I sort of believe in marriage. I believe in the act of committing for life to another person. I believe in the power and the joy of facing your life as a team. I think you can have a very happy, fulfilled life without being married, and before I met Peter, I was preparing to. But my life is even happier and more fulfilled with him. So naturally, I want to start building that life as Team McSudelman.<\/p>\n
There’s a reason for the social role of “spouse”. And there’s a reason for all of the legal and social systems that have grown up around that role: they reinforce and strengthen it. It would be much harder to do many of the things we want and intend to do, for and with each other, without that useless little piece of paper.<\/p>\n
But more to the point, once we’d decided to do what spouses do, why wouldn’t we, well, become official spouses?<\/p>\n