What marital status am I?

heartbreak_star

Fireflyaway wrote: »

If you are not married you are single. Cohabiting is still single because you are not married.

I've always thought this is a bit mad...

HBS x

missbiggles1

heartbreak_star wrote: »

I've always thought this is a bit mad...

HBS x

Why?......

EmmyLou30

You're not really single though are you if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend!? In terms of marital status I guess it's married or single, but it feels wrong to say 'single' when you're in a relationship. I don't like the term partner either as it's sexually ambiguous (I guess that's the point and it doesn't really matter if it's male or female!).

I'd put cohabiting as well if it were me.

heartbreak_star

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Why?......

Emmylou summed it up quite well, and I think it's fairly self explanatory...

If you're in a relationship, you're not single.

HBS x

mikeeboy

If co-habiting is an option on the drop down, choose that, otherwise single in my opinion.

chelseablue

mikeeboy wrote: »

If co-habiting is an option on the drop down, choose that, otherwise single in my opinion.

No drop down unfortunately, just a box for me to write in

missbiggles1

heartbreak_star wrote: »

Emmylou summed it up quite well, and I think it's fairly self explanatory...

If you're in a relationship, you're not single.

HBS x

If you're just in a relationship you're not married.;)

I think people are confusing the social media expression of "single" meaning, I assume, available, with the legal difference between being single or married.

Employers don't care whether you're available or not but they may well care if you're legally married.

Tiddlywinks

chelseablue wrote: »

No drop down unfortunately, just a box for me to write in

From your signature, you share a child and a mortgage.... just get married if you don't like the 'living together' descriptors.

It's your choice of lifestyle - why so coy about it?

chelseablue

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

From your signature, you share a child and a mortgage.... just get married if you don't like the 'living together' descriptors.

It's your choice of lifestyle - why so coy about it?

Now we've bought the house we're going to re-build our savings pot, then get married.


Also his mum is very ill at the moment (could be terminal) so our brains might explode if we had to try and organise a wedding at the moment

fairy_lights

missbiggles1 wrote: »

If you're just in a relationship you're not married.;)

I think people are confusing the social media expression of "single" meaning, I assume, available, with the legal difference between being single or married.

Employers don't care whether you're available or not but they may well care if you're legally married.

But then surely a widow would need to tick the 'single' box too, as they're no longer married. And there is usually an option for 'divorced', but divorcees aren't married so they're single too. And what if you've been widowed, remarried, and then divorced and living with a new partner?
The whole thing would be easier if they just asked "who do you want your death related benefits paid to in the event you die in a gruesome industrial accident?"