{"id":204,"date":"2012-10-30T20:18:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T18:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.my-shrink.net\/?p=204"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:22:30","slug":"komu-vygoden-grazhdanskij-brak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedelkova.pro\/en\/komu-vygoden-grazhdanskij-brak.php","title":{"rendered":"You can't call a good thing a \"marriage\"! Or who benefits from civil marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one time a census was conducted in Russia. And it turned out that in a country where polygamy is prohibited, there are significantly more married women than <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

And the box was simply opened: all women living in a civil marriage considered themselves married, but only 30% civil husbands considered themselves married. It would seem, poor women, bad men! But there was no violence, everything was consensual and within the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why do people settle for common-law marriages?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Option 1: Trial Marriage.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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The situation when people decide to live together before formalizing a relationship is familiar to many people. Someone wants to try to see if they will get along. Someone wants to start a life together early, but at this particular moment there is no money for a wedding and purchase of housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Typically, a trial marriage lasts about a year and a half and then the couple registers the relationship.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Otherwise, cohabitation may last for a while longer, but eventually the couple splits up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 2. Relationship without commitment.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

It is not uncommon for a woman to believe that she is living in a trial marriage and for a man to believe that he is in a relationship without mutual commitment. A significant part of such couples appear after several years of trial marriage. Romance disappears, the couple begins to doubt the common future. Often a woman waits for a marriage proposal, but her birthday, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, March 8 passes, and she never hears the desired words about marriage from her man.<\/p>\n\n\n

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There may be several reasons for this. It happens that a man, having provided himself with the rear in the domestic and sexual plan, continues to look for unearthly love on the side. It is quite natural that in this case neither a stamp in the passport, nor children in the plans of the man are not included. As a rule, in this case it is the common-law husband who postpones the registration of the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 3. Mercantilism above all else.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This type of civil marriages were common in all centuries. For example, if there was a reason for an official marriage with a worthy party, but feelings got in the way, it was not uncommon for noblemen to marry one woman and live with another. Nowadays, well-to-do people live in civil marriages and both men and women refuse to formalize their relationships if they have reasons to suspect their partner of mercantilism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Option 4. Experience requires caution.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Both men and women who have gone through the divorce process are usually in no hurry to formalize the relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman is in a looser situation when living together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • First, she's worried about the biological clock ticking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    A man can live in a common-law marriage for 10 years and after that leave to another woman and create a full-fledged family. A woman after 10 years of cohabitation and separation from her partner has minimal chances to organize her personal life.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

    In addition, there may be problems with childbearing. In addition, many couples acquire a lot of property over the years and, although legislation in many countries provides for equal division of acquired property between civil partners, as a rule, most of the valuable property goes to the man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Secondly, the mentality of Slavs implies strict requirements to female chastity. If a man has changed 5-6 civil partners, and no one will reproach him with anything, a woman's obvious relations with several partners reduce her chances of creating a family.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      In most cases, at least one partner delaying the official conclusion of marriage is psychologically immature or has suffered from psychological trauma. And in a situation where the relationship has reached an impasse, the day comes when the help of a psychologist is needed by both partners. They need to determine what they really want from the relationship, someone - to solve the problem of former psychological traumas, to understand how to properly push the partner to official marriage or decide to break up in order to get a chance to successfully create a family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      \ud83d\udccc Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      1. What is common-law marriage and how does it differ from official marriage?<\/strong>
        Civil marriage is a couple living together without officially registering their relationship with the civil registry office. Unlike a formal marriage, it does not grant the partners legal rights and obligations, such as the right to inheritance, joint property or alimony.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      2. What are the advantages of civil marriage?<\/strong>
        The advantages include freedom from legal obligations, the ability to separate without an official divorce, no need to divide property registered to one of the partners, and independence in financial matters.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      3. What are the disadvantages of civil marriage?<\/strong>
        Disadvantages include lack of legal protection, difficulty in dividing property, inability to obtain alimony, limited inheritance rights, and no automatic recognition of paternity for children born in such a relationship.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      4. Who benefits from common-law marriage?<\/strong>
        Civil marriage can be advantageous for those who want to avoid legal obligations, who are distrustful of their partner, or who have a negative experience of previous marriages. It may also be preferable for those who want to test the relationship before the official registration.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
      5. What are the risks for women in common-law marriages?<\/strong>
        Women may face a lack of legal protection, especially in the event of separation or death of a partner. This includes difficulties in dividing property, lack of rights to alimony and possible problems with recognizing paternity for children.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n