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Originally Posted by abaya
Can you have these things [love and committment] without being married? Or is that just our human perception of things?
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Absolutely you can have love and commitment--long term commitment--and even have a family without being married. Grace and I would be married if we could, but the fact that we aren't doesn't in any way diminish the commitment we've made to each other. Now perhaps the fact that we are legally prohibited from marrying has some impact on this. We'd have been married at least a year ago, possibly two, if we could. We consider ourselves to be married in every way that's important except for in the legal definition of marriage.