Males and Females

Are there any financial incentives to getting married where you are?

Of my three sets of friends that are/were married, only one did it because they 'believe in' marriage.

Me and my girlfriend have no intentions of marrying. Her parents have been together nearly 30 years without marrying and mine, who've been together a similar amount of time, did it for tax reasons and to appease my mum's side of the family.
 
I can get on her health insurance, which will save me $200 a month. There's also a tax benefit, but I heard it might be going away because too many single people complained
 
My partner has no interest in marriage (though she tells me I'm the first person she considered marrying if she changed her mind about it), and that's fine by me. Helps us maintain our independence. We are fervently against having kids at any point, too.

However, if I end up getting a fellowship to study in Italy or Greece for a year while I'm in grad school, the only way to get her to be there with me would be if we were legally wed, so the program I'm in would support her. But that would be a tail wagging the dog.
 
Congrats unk.

We are fervently against having kids at any point, too.

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What's hard about making tamales? My girlfriend makes pretty good ones. They're time consuming and tedious and I can eat like 8 at a time...that's probably problematic.
 
It was partially a joke, partially not.

Getting the masa to meat proportion right is whats hard. Tried on three different occasions to make em. Each time was a complete failure.
 
I may be in the minority, but I don't get what the fuss is with tamales. Bracing myself for a raft of 'ah, but you haven't tried the RIGHT tamales' type answers, but to me they taste way to much like corn and not enough like meat