for, children educated and living independent lives emotionally and moneywise. I am healthy, happy and enjoying all the benefits of being in a loving, healthy, sexy relationship with a wonderful man who still make my toes curl. According to JD at Get Rich Slowly, a man should get married so that while keeping their finances 100% separate, he gets to pay his wife (with gasoline) to do his laundry. Awesome. #34 David @ 9:46 pm March 14th, 2011 A reason that might not occur to many: When the Scottish historian and essayist Thomas Carlyle married Jane Baillie Welsh, many of their contemporaries considered it an error on both sides. Alfred Lord Tennyson, one of England's greatest poets, is said to have remarked to one such dissenter: "I cannot agree with you. By any other arrangement, four people would have been unhappy instead of two." #35 Victor @ 10:42 pm March 14th, 2011 Arthur Schopenhauer said it best, I think: "Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes." And that was before the invention of the no fault divorce. ;) #36 Rachel @ 11:04 pm March 14th, 2011 LOL @ #22 David #37 Tizzle @ 11:19 pm March 14th, 2011 There are many benefits to marriage over a partnership. Even if there is a tax penalty. For instance: sharing a nursing home room, hospital visitation rights, wills/pension stuff. A super quick google search said there are over 1000 benefits