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i'm unsure and unaffliated with marriage. signing the register is like signing a lease...for life. and this is 'love'? committing and promising and ring putting on and kissing in front of people you know. i don't understand how it makes life different. marriage is so abstract. however, so is 'love'. they're just words really. words we've attached these incomprehensible meanings to. real life disguised as fairy tales. am i missing something? or is something missing me?