Some of these make me sad to read because it demonstrates what at least my society lacks and what it has but uses as gimmicks, as if marriage is a cult.

• I've seen married people forced to testify against each other all the time. The "right to remain silent" is universally thrown out the window.

• The "joint adoption rights" thing is flipped around. If someone is jailed, the rights to their children is taken from both them and their spouse.

• Imagine for a moment we even have inheritance taxes and rules against making arrangements for anything.

• The automatic recognition of the relationship by every state and nation is a misconception. That's how it's supposed to work due to the Hague convention, and in regular cases it does, but it's not enforced.