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What hill are you willing to die on even if no one in your life agrees with you? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 hours ago by Zonefive@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Water usage is probably my biggest. Living in a high desert, my wife and MIL see no problem with filling one side of the sink with hot soapy water to wash a few dishes because “that’s just how I’ve always done it”, to watering the grass and plants for hours. All of this makes me mental.

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[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Getting married without a prenup in today’s world is foolish. Ask marriage counselors and they will in general tell you to get a prenup. A prenup is wrote by two people and both have their own attorney. Anyone who refuses to get one or even discuss one is someone you should run from. A prenup details how a divorce AND how a marriage should run.

Also anyone who wants operating system or device level age verification doesn’t understand how bad things will get if we do that. It’s only about mass surveillance and selling of your data. It does nothing to protect kids.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I remember a science fiction story where the marriage license has a seven year term and has to be renewed periodically.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That’s an interesting concept

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago

"The Puppet Masters" by Robert A. Heinlein. There's an acceptable movie version of the book. The marriage scene isn't in the movie, though.

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

(US context) The advice I got was that every marriage has a prenup. If the couple doesn't write it, it's just the default prenup their state wrote and it's going to be crap for both people.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

That’s exactly correct