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Originally Posted by Satan

you guys didn't have separate bank accounts?



rule number one.

never, ever, ever entangle yourself financially with another person.

ha ha, good advice for judge judy customers in general ("i signed my name for her cellphone!"), but being married is a different story-- it is in fact an economic contract, when you clear away all the bullshit ritual.

dead-air pointed at some of that but there's much more to it-- e.g., we're not cooking little individual meals for each person, or keeping 2 fridges, or keeping 2 rooms at separate temperatures, or measuring how much hot water each consumes, etc.

living alone is of course the best way to avoid these entanglements, but once you're a family you're all in the same boat--- that's why you should watch carefully who you marry and why-- "love" (read: hard dick) is not cause enough for this-- you can get that without the contract. "being in love" is a temporary illness, and it's no base for any kind of long-term contract.

the problem with many marriages is that they are based on deluded "romantic" ideologies rather than reality. "but i love him!"-- no, that's no reason to marry-- that's reason to fuck their brains out-- you marry someone cuz you wanna start a fucking tribe with them and you're ready to pay the price and stake your future on the enterprise.