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please-picturemeintheweeds · 22 days

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Evermore anon, I just reblogged @wavesoutbeingtossed’s brilliant posts of that exact theme! YES something about all of this and the weight of forever, the reality of a a future that forces a person to get truly philosophical about joining together two humans in such a final and intimate ceremony. That introspection can recomtextualize a lot of relationship stuff that maybe felt more symbolic or abstract until it’s Happening.

#Marriage #evermore #ive been thinking a lot about this and maybe getting engaged #Like we said within a year that we were End Game. That we would get married. And then we had more philosophical convos about the politics #Of marriage (politics and gender roles and the 1950s shit one night or a wife) like our love doesn’t subscribe to the government #But now that we’re 6 years in I am wanting to do the thing! But we haven’t really Talked about it in the last two years bc things are good #how they are now. So what would chang?#It makes me reflect on the legal right to be married. The tax benefits (hello tax day). The joining of our families.#The biggest thing I’ve been talking about with my therapist is the Political Power of marriage. Like the joining of empires/tribes.#my partners mom would have more financial security bc her elder care would be legal attached to my family’s resources #But also the poetic and deeply human pieces - the joining of souls. The combining of lives and names. Creating new human life (in theory LO #Yeah it’s just all so big #And when you start to go down that road in a tangible way with a partner #That puts a lot of shit in perspective!#And the weight of patriarchy too!!!!#How deal???#Joever

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