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20:11 - I am now 35 and a divorced woman at 30. I am constantly struck with societal standards regarding marriage.
My first marriage was really hard and well, I don’t need to get into it, but after ten years I woke up and got out of an unhealthy relationship (and yes, we tried to ‘work on it’ a few times). Anyway, I am in a very fulfilling and healthy relationship now, and it feels like we always get side eyed for not having gotten married yet.
We do have intentions of matrimony (on our schedule) but, I don’t know what is hard to understand about long-term committed relationships. My not being remarried while applying for new housing, meeting new people, and introductions in general, are weird.
I think commitment, in whatever form that takes, is beautiful and should not go unnoticed ❤ love you guys and wish y’all a happy and safe trip!
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I love hearing about your relationship with Drew, I swear my husband and I are so similar to you both! We don’t view marriage the same way as most people (as in basically for the purpose of having children) because we do want to live a somewhat “alternative” lifestyle with a ton of freedom and no real desire to “settle down”. It is so rare to find people with a similar mindset and I just love that I can find that when watching your videos 🥰
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Would you considering fostering a pet? It’s a great way to love on an animal without the commitment/cost of owning. I travel in between fosters and can coordinate another foster parent taking the animal short term if I need. It’s a great way to help the shelters and animals in your community. I’ve found it very rewarding.
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@morgan3llis001
6 months ago
hi carrie-- regarding marriage, i used to be kinda against it or at least think it was pretty silly. but as i've gotten older i've realized there are a lot of benefits to it. taxes is the most obvious but another big thing is social security. obviously no one wants to think about this, but if y'all stay together and one of you eventually dies, you will not be able to collect the others social security. however, if you were married for at least 10 years (even if you got divorced) you could collect the others social security. if you bought property together, getting married would also make things way easier if you ended up splitting up or one of you died (you can create a contract for this though). not being married also creates other challenges if one of you became very sick, as far as making care decisions. no one wants to think about this stuff because it's all sad and awful but it's life. so just something to consider.. i assume a lot of people just ask you this because of the wedding part of marriage/thinking it totally changes your relationship but there's a lot of boring legal benefits of marriage lol.
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