Who Says Romance is Dead?

[bertine]

As you can imagine, gwangi and I are pretty serious and have been talking about making our relationship formal for sometime. I am not really anit-marriage, I just have never been someone that has been in a huge rush to get married. However, my car accident on Monday made me realize a few things.

1) I feel really lucky that I didn't get hurt in that accident.
2) If I got hurt in that accident my parents would have been notified, not Zach.
3) If I had been killed in that accident all my assets would have gone to my parents and siblings*, not Zach.

Before you say "What assets?", remember that I am 33 and have been saving for retirement since I was 21. I have a condo that is 50% paid off. I wouldn't expect Zach to stay in Minneapolis if I wasn't around but I am pretty far down the path of thinking of any assets and debts as "ours".

I suppose that this is one of the major things marriage does, it protects the two people in the relationship. I just haven't been in a serious enough relationship to really think about it.

*I randomly put my siblings down when I open up 401k, IRAs or ROTHs. They don't even know about it and I am sure it is pretty unequal amounts at this point.

Comments

[bertine.livejournal.com]

It isn't squee worthy yet. It is just the next step. The accident just made me realize that there is more to marriage than just "happily ever after".

I wish they would just let gay people marry, it is stupid they don't let them. However, I am not the person that would need their mind changed on this.