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Only if the male thinks that their joint life choices mean that she's entitled to less than 50% of their assets. Though why any woman would want to be with a man who thinks that a relationship isn't a "joint venture", I have no idea.

True. But I do think that too many people view it fatalistically as something that "just happens", and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The "bad old days" where people were stuck in abusive relationships because it was socially/legally unacceptable to divorce were definitely bad, but I...

I assume you're talking about the case where two mature people who already have children are marrying? I agree that this may be one of the rare circumstances where a pre-nup may be a good idea (particularly if the asset bases substantially differ), but that's quite different to the case of two...

I can live with that. :) I think the statistics suggest that people don't enter marriage "boots and all", and that's precisely my point. I think there'd be far fewer divorces if they did. :) You're right that you can't know what's in the head of the other party, but there are clues, and...

Call me old-fashioned, but I don't think that you should live together until you're either married, or have made a "marriage-like life-long commitment" to each other (if you have a problem with the institution of marriage, or current laws unfortunately don't permit you to marry). I also don't...