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I got married for legal rights & protections. There are many rights in the US that exist nowhere but in marriage; it's one of the reasons same-sex couples are fighting so hard for the right to marry--even aside from the amount of work involved in contracts and power-of-attorney, some rights of marriage just can't be acquired through contracts.
Aside from the legal aspects, marriage is the way communities make or acknowledge families that weren't born related to each other. And even if we don't need the support of "family" specifically to survive, a lot of people are much happier with those connections than without them.
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