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In my experience, some of the couples of 6+ years who still aren't engaged are thinking about the impact being married has on their identities. You can avoid having friends and colleagues think of you as someone's wife by just waiting a while to tie the knot. This seems like a bigger deal for women.

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I was always amazed that François Hollande and Ségolène Royal never got married even though they were together for twenty-five years and had four kids and she was a candidate for President of France.

They said marriage was "too bourgeois" but has anybody ever been more bourgeois than François Hollande?

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Also, if you’re a couple, say, in your 30’s, and neither wants kids, getting married just might not be that important.

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Sometimes there are impediments to matrimony, though usually by that point the parents are in assisted living centers

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