Somebody please show me one positive thing about being married

[I'm Billy FUCO!!]

Because I love the girl I would do that.

Because I want to marry her means idgaf about none of that "what if" pre-marriage bullshyt.

People have they own way of expressing how they feel about their significant other. Marriage is the most popular way of saying, I love you and I want to be with you till we die.

I don't want to go with a girl for 10+ years and her title says she just my girlfriend /baby mother.

Breh......someone lied to you.

Apparently, marriage ain't about love......it's about THIS shyt

Tax Benefits

• Filing joint income tax returns with the IRS and state taxing authorities.
• Creating a "family partnership" under federal tax laws, which allows you to divide business income among family members.

Estate Planning Benefits

• Inheriting a share of your spouse's estate.
• Receiving an exemption from both estate taxes and gift taxes for all property you give or leave to your spouse.
• Creating life estate trusts that are restricted to married couples, including QTIP trusts, QDOT trusts, and marital deduction trusts.
• Obtaining priority if a conservator needs to be appointed for your spouse -- that is, someone to make financial and/or medical decisions on your spouse's behalf.

Government Benefits

• Receiving Social Security, Medicare, and disability benefits for spouses.
• Receiving veterans' and military benefits for spouses, such as those for education, medical care, or special loans.
• Receiving public assistance benefits.

Employment Benefits

• Obtaining insurance benefits through a spouse's employer.
• Taking family leave to care for your spouse during an illness.
• Receiving wages, workers' compensation, and retirement plan benefits for a deceased spouse.
• Taking bereavement leave if your spouse or one of your spouse's close relatives dies.

Medical Benefits

• Visiting your spouse in a hospital intensive care unit or during restricted visiting hours in other parts of a medical facility.
• Making medical decisions for your spouse if he or she becomes incapacitated and unable to express wishes for treatment.

Death Benefits

• Consenting to after-death examinations and procedures.
• Making burial or other final arrangements.

Family Benefits

• Filing for stepparent or joint adoption.
• Applying for joint foster care rights.
• Receiving equitable division of property if you divorce.
• Receiving spousal or child support, child custody, and visitation if you divorce.

Housing Benefits

• Living in neighborhoods zoned for "families only."
• Automatically renewing leases signed by your spouse.

Consumer Benefits

• Receiving family rates for health, homeowners', auto, and other types of insurance.
• Receiving tuition discounts and permission to use school facilities.
• Other consumer discounts and incentives offered only to married couples or families.

Other Legal Benefits and Protections

• Suing a third person for wrongful death of your spouse and loss of consortium (loss of intimacy).
• Suing a third person for offenses that interfere with the success of your marriage, such as alienation of affection and criminal conversation (these laws are available in only a few states).
• Claiming the marital communications privilege, which means a court can't force you to disclose the contents of confidential communications between you and your spouse during your marriage.
• Receiving crime victims' recovery benefits if your spouse is the victim of a crime.
• Obtaining immigration and residency benefits for noncitizen spouse.
• Visiting rights in jails and other places where visitors are restricted to immediate family.

And y'all wonder why gays want in on this shyt

 

[BuyandSave]

you have to be trolling....seriously. -_____-

No, you just can't back up your claims without resorting to, "Oh, you just don't understand..."

 

[Poitier]

Nah, they actually reflect the reality of the divorce rates in America and who they're initiated by...not sure how the so-called "maker" would spin that or why.

Statistics are trends and change over time. If you are using statistics about 2014 for how you live your next 60 then you are doing it wrong.

 

[Flay Mayweather]

Breh......someone lied to you.

Apparently, marriage ain't about love......it's about THIS shyt




And y'all wonder why gays want in on this shyt

Nah that's just added benefits of doing something supposedly illogical(getting married) .

 

[BuyandSave]

Statistics are trends and change over time. If you are using statistics about 2014 for how you live your next 60 then you are doing it wrong.

So what's wrong with being safe and not signing a contract? Love and vows is what's supposed to bind you together in a marriage, right? So what's the paper for, breh?

 

[OatmealCreamPie]

Again, Black American men don't really hold marriage in high esteem as the comments in this thread as well as the marriage stats prove. My husband received the same tsk-tsking from his friends when he announced he was going to get married. Those friends were raised in single mother homes so marriage was a foreign concept to them.

 

[Poitier]

So what's wrong with being safe and not signing a contract? Love and vows is what's supposed to bind you together in a marriage, right? So what's the paper for, breh?

since you cant google this on your own
Whether or not you favor marriage as a social institution, there's no denying that it confers many rights, protections, and benefits -- both legal and practical. Some of these vary from state to state, but the list typically includes:

Tax Benefits

• Filing joint income tax returns with the IRS and state taxing authorities.
• Creating a "family partnership" under federal tax laws, which allows you to divide business income among family members.

Estate Planning Benefits

• Inheriting a share of your spouse's estate.
• Receiving an exemption from both estate taxes and gift taxes for all property you give or leave to your spouse.
• Creating life estate trusts that are restricted to married couples, including QTIP trusts, QDOT trusts, and marital deduction trusts.
• Obtaining priority if a conservator needs to be appointed for your spouse -- that is, someone to make financial and/or medical decisions on your spouse's behalf.

Government Benefits

• Receiving Social Security, Medicare, and disability benefits for spouses.
• Receiving veterans' and military benefits for spouses, such as those for education, medical care, or special loans.
• Receiving public assistance benefits.

Employment Benefits

• Obtaining insurance benefits through a spouse's employer.
• Taking family leave to care for your spouse during an illness.
• Receiving wages, workers' compensation, and retirement plan benefits for a deceased spouse.
• Taking bereavement leave if your spouse or one of your spouse's close relatives dies.

Medical Benefits

• Visiting your spouse in a hospital intensive care unit or during restricted visiting hours in other parts of a medical facility.
• Making medical decisions for your spouse if he or she becomes incapacitated and unable to express wishes for treatment.

Death Benefits

• Consenting to after-death examinations and procedures.
• Making burial or other final arrangements.

Family Benefits

• Filing for stepparent or joint adoption.
• Applying for joint foster care rights.
• Receiving equitable division of property if you divorce.
• Receiving spousal or child support, child custody, and visitation if you divorce.

Housing Benefits

• Living in neighborhoods zoned for "families only."
• Automatically renewing leases signed by your spouse.

Consumer Benefits

• Receiving family rates for health, homeowners', auto, and other types of insurance.
• Receiving tuition discounts and permission to use school facilities.
• Other consumer discounts and incentives offered only to married couples or families.

Other Legal Benefits and Protections

• Suing a third person for wrongful death of your spouse and loss of consortium (loss of intimacy).
• Suing a third person for offenses that interfere with the success of your marriage, such as alienation of affection and criminal conversation (these laws are available in only a few states).
• Claiming the marital communications privilege, which means a court can't force you to disclose the contents of confidential communications between you and your spouse during your marriage.
• Receiving crime victims' recovery benefits if your spouse is the victim of a crime.
• Obtaining immigration and residency benefits for noncitizen spouse.
• Visiting rights in jails and other places where visitors are restricted to immediate family.

 

[Thsnnor]

Stop with the vague shyt, breh. You can have a partnership, have rings, and even change last names without signing any contracts. You can be married without officially being married in the eyes of the law. This has nothing to do with how committed you are or whether or not you have "one foot out the door".

Signing the contract is the showing we down for life. Unless people trying to live like Don Chealde and Goldie Hawn. If you are married without a will you are good. When Don and Goldie die they spouses are messed up (one of them lives in a non common law state).

 

[Poitier]

Again, Black American men don't really hold marriage in high esteem as the comments in this thread as well as the marriage stats prove. My husband received the same tsk-tsking from his friends when he announced he was going to get married. Those friends were raised in single mother homes so marriage was a foreign concept to them.

Shut up

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

Breh......someone lied to you.

Apparently, marriage ain't about love......it's about THIS shyt




And y'all wonder why gays want in on this shyt

Again, Black American men don't really hold marriage in high esteem as the comments in this thread as well as the marriage stats prove. My husband received the same tsk-tsking from his friends when he announced he was going to get married. Those friends were raised in single mother homes so marriage was a foreign concept to them.

marriage is about love too. remember, our ancestors were not privy to pick and choose whom they wanted to marry. masters arranged marriages for their own benefits, and rarely were slaves allowed to pick their spouses. even then, the marriages were not legally respected, and could be broken at any time the master wanted to sell one. by you marrying someone, you are engaging in a right that a mere 150 years ago we could not.

stop being facetious. if you never find one woman in your life with whom you would consider marriage, needless to say you have lost. and just like if a woman hasnt been married by 40, eyebrows go up, the same is true for men. stop viewing women as only being good for p*ssy and head, and maybe you will find a virtuous queen one day.

 

[Rocket Scientist]

Tax break?

 

[Black Hans]

It's provides a better structure for a family.

All that screwing around is going to burn you out, make you feel dead inside, and increase anxiety in the long run.

 

[OatmealCreamPie]

Shut up

Why?

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

hate marriage, but bash single moms brehs

 

[I'm Billy FUCO!!]

It's provides a better structure for a family.

Please explain how a married couple with kids, makes better family structure than an unmarried man and woman living together and in an exclusive relationship, who also have kids