This. I still shake my head in despair when I see ANYone saying 'marriage is just a piece of paper.' Errrrr, no luv it's not. It's a deep commitment, and a sign you love and care for that person, and want to spend the rest of your life with them. It's also a contract that protects you both.
Being with someone long-term, and refusing to ever get married, just suggests you're waiting for someone better to come along.
I have known many a case where someone is in a relationship with someone who refuses to get married, and after 7 to 10 years or so together they split. Within a year, the one who has refused to get married is married to someone else.
So it's often not that they don't want to get married. It's just they don't want to marry that one particular person.
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