Do you need marriage to prove your love?

I think it's stupid that gay marriage is illegal and I'd like to have the option to marry and have it recognized as a marriage. However, I don't think I really need the marriage to prove that I love someone which is the main purpose of a marriage.Do you need marriage to prove your love?
Marriage is not needed to prove your love for another.





However marriage is a legal contract that affords the couple rights that are not available to single people.





In my case I married my partner so that if I should die before him he would still continue to receive my pension. A right afforded married people but not afforded to a couple who have not entered into the legal contract of marriage.





There are tax benefits too. And pension credits that can be transfered to your spouse but not to one who is not legally married.





There are hundreds of other examples that could be made. I am sure you can see where I am getting at with this answer.





When a person is younger they don't necessarily look to the future and what happens to their other half if they get sick or predecease their partner.





I am almost 60 and I need to insure that my spouse is protected at every turn and he has done the same for me.Do you need marriage to prove your love?
The main purpose of marriage is not to prove your love to someone. The main purpose of marriage is a legal contract of unity between two people are in love. I don't need to marry my fiance because I want to prove my love to her, or anyone else for that matter - but I am marrying her because I want to share everything with her. I want to be her other half, not just her girlfriend.
No, you don't need marriage to prove your love.


However, you often do need marriage to see your dying spouse in the hospital, so it's still definitely worth fighting for.


It's not the sentimental, emotional value of the word ';marriage'; I'd be after, but rather the concrete and tangible financial and societal advantages.
Is that the main purpose of marriage? I thought the main purpose of marriage was so that all these God-fearing Southern Baptists could have sex, since I'm sure they are saving themselves...I do not need marriage to prove my love. Hopefully I do that everyday to my partner and she is the one who really counts. The word marriage means so little to so many until you put the word gay in front of it. I don't have to participate in this elaborate (or not) ceremony to prove to my girl that I love her. She knows...trust me, she knows...
I don't need the paper to prove my love our 30 years together does that just fine. I want the benefits that the government bestows on married couples. The right to file taxes, inheritance rights, being able to insure my partner on my insurances, the right to make medical choices if ever needed. Right now the states that allow marriages and the ones with civil unions can only give you the rights of that state, should you move and if it's not a state that recognizes the marriage or union, oh well you s.o.l. again. I don't want to take anything away from the straights and their marriages, I just believe fair is fair and what we're getting isn't fair.
not everyone believe in marriage. but for those who do marriage isn't just about the relationship of two people. other people have to recognise the couple as a couple. what it means to be married is that other people treat you like you're married.





the need for common knowledge means a wedding is more than the exchange of vows by two individuals. when you go to a wedding, it's not just about you seeing the two people getting married. it's also very important that you know that other people know. that's why the vows themselves matter less than the ceremony.





marriage in America is of tremendous social and legal importance. it is at the center of how we structure our families; it is the primary way that people acknowledge, and accept responsibility for, the person they have chosen, above all others, to be with for the rest of their lives; and it is the legal institution through which government supports America's couples and families. marriage is a core institution in our society - the ';gold standard'; for couples.
lol i thought the whole point of marriage was to sort out stuff like money and housing





cuz really if u just love someone then ud just move in with them and it would be like that for the rest of ur life but marriage was probably created because of stuff like money
No you don't need marriage to prove love. However it is shocking imo that this community is being continually denied the right to marry and have the same rights as a hetero couple. It's disgraceful.
Gay marriage is more about equality, and it has a lot to do with rights as parents, rights in the home and health, and other adult things that I don't care about yet.
Marriage is a contract binding you to one person. As far as I'm concerned, marriage does not prove one's love for another.
No, you don't need marriage to prove love. But people want it so that their being a couple is ';official';.
no but it is fun trying to change the church - which is full of gay people how ironic.
Nope. :)
you sound like Oprah........i prefer a legal document (equal rights)
My answer to your question is ';no.';