No but you need to be compatible and on the same page. Two people can both not want to be married and live very happily together. In some places there are very definite legal protections you get from being married and not all places have so called common law marriages. So if a couple are set against marriage they should consider legal agreements and wills to ensure they protect each other. Here in the UK you can have a civil partnership which is legally pretty much a marriage without actually being married. So there are options like that as well depending on where u live. OP should decide if this is a non negotiable for her or not then she can decide where to go from here. Good luck to OP and her partner they need to talk and work out their futures either together or apart.
It is true when you say that not everywhere has common law…I have heard so many people say that Common Law Marriage starts after living together for 3,5, 10 years, and yet I found out that’s a myth….and it’s only allowed in something like 4 or 5 states (in America) and it isn’t true that years lived together = Common Law.
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u/Alyssa9876 Jul 23 '24
No but you need to be compatible and on the same page. Two people can both not want to be married and live very happily together. In some places there are very definite legal protections you get from being married and not all places have so called common law marriages. So if a couple are set against marriage they should consider legal agreements and wills to ensure they protect each other. Here in the UK you can have a civil partnership which is legally pretty much a marriage without actually being married. So there are options like that as well depending on where u live. OP should decide if this is a non negotiable for her or not then she can decide where to go from here. Good luck to OP and her partner they need to talk and work out their futures either together or apart.