If I was the dictator of UK ...

[ScreamingLadySutch]

So many hard and painful threads recently, of mums who want to be married but their 'partners' couldn't be bothered.

If I was the dictator of UK, I would BRING BACK a seriously generous tax allowance for marriage. To be lost on divorce, and not applied to any subsequent marriages

Enough that these idle 'sort of committed' emotionally vacant fuckers would feel pain missing out on

So you want men to be incentivised to marry women they aren’t really bothered about marrying and then keep them stuck in miserable marriages for the ££?

You didn’t really think that through, did you OP?

Men who can’t be bothered marrying their partners should be incentivised to man the fuck up and walk away and their partners should be too.

So there would be a rebuttable presumption that if a couple lived together, had children together etc. then they intended their relationship to be formal partnership rather than FWB or flatmates.

That’s what marriage is for.

The issue is that people need to make smarter decisions about who they have children with, not worse decisions about who they marry!

is the women who 'think' they are in a committed relationship, get pregnant, and then when they bring up the subject of marriage,

They’re a bit silly then aren’t they? if you haven’t had the marriage conversation you’ve no business making a baby with them.

So my ex husband had an affair but I should be financially punished for that? And our children? Why not go the whole hog and have single mothers pelted with rotten veg in the village stocks? Or bring back the workhouse?

Jeez. Paying people to stay unhappy in order to fulfill your moral ideal.

What a ridiculous, anti-women idea.

Most dictators are despots, not tosspots