This is why am not married. Signing a legally binding contact to say I will be with someone forever is as ridiculous as it sounds. You can just live that way and do 99.9% of what a married couple does.

> You can do everything that a marriage entails without the legal contract that gives someone else leverage over everything you own.

No, you can't, because the mutual ownership is a significant part of what marriage entails. An economic partnership in which the partners provide mutual support and can therefore adjust, dynamically and informally, together the distribution of marketed work and non-marketed support work is fundamental to marriage.