There are plenty of legal reasons: Next of kin rights, hospital visitation, joint tax filing... in an ideal world, we would just say that living together after a certain amount of time confers the rights of 'marriage' anyway. Divorce I think is the weirder issue legally.
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Date: 3/7/15 22:11 (UTC)