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Originally Posted by DixieGal
To belong to someone special who also belongs to you.
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That's very nicely put!
We have two forms of "marriage" contracts. One is the classical marriage contract, the other a registered partnership contract. There are some minor differences between the two, mostly having to do with the children and the way of breaking the ties. The second was first created for same-sex marriages (as that wasn't legal at the time), and stayed available after the same-sex marriage was finally legalized. So, you now have a choice.
We decided to go for a marriage, and not the partnership. Mostly because it does have a bit of extra emotional history. And we got married in the first place, because of what DixieGal above said. We'd been living "in sin" for a long time already, when we decided to get married. Naturally, there are also some monetary benefits, but we could have stayed with our "living-together contract" and made a will (as we never have had plans on having children) and not be much worse off.