I've seen people late in life get married only to seperate and divorce shortly after.

Have you considered a handfasting? It's like a marriage but without the legal problems if you decide you don't want to be together. And you can handfast every year on your anniversry as a committment thing AND have a great party and dress up!

If you move on from this man just because you want a certificate what a way to wreck your own happiness....would you or point is could you ever find such a man again and would it ever be the same anyway?

I will never marry my partner but I adore him and I will be with him to the end....well I hope I will any way...but marriage doesn't guarantee that we would last

Rhiannon