Reply #3: My partner and I have been together for 10 years and aren't married

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We're a hetero couple with no intentions of tying the knot. We haven't encountered any discrimination because of that, but people do ask a lot of very personal questions and we do get a lot of pressure from friends and acquaintances to get married. One acquaintance of ours, who's quite the homophobe, asked us why we simply didn't get married and my partner said, "Well, we were going to do it, but then they started letting gay people get married and we figured, 'Hey, this whole marriage thing has just lost all meaning,' so why bother?"

The homophobe looked at my partner and said, "That's ridiculous," and my partner goes, "No kidding,". About 30 seconds of silence later, during which you could see the gears turning in this guy's tiny little head, he got it.