How do you feel about the u. k. law below?

[strateguy632]

u. k. law: before anyone can get divorced, a marriage must have lasted for at least one year long.

like they must have tried one year.

the problem is, 1 after wedding people "feel secure stability due to commitment" therefore stop pretending, or stopped diets. one spouse or the other realized the stuff s/he said, during dating or plans, isn't really happening , feels tricked deceived in just a month or two! shouldn't need to wait many months in the situation different from expectations they agreed on.

2, some prenups only if married a full year, so want to divorce before prenup. but if prenup protects assets, this is also a stupid rule. give away to con-artist?

3, divorces occur after various lengths of time the largest portion of divorces, the most, around 10% are in second year... as soon as possible! shouldn't need to wait a year. "shape up or we start process tomorrow" or: don't do that financial decision, if you do we start divorce tomorrow? haha we must wait a year?

how do you feel?

[Likes2drive]

Each situation is different , some people get it annulled right away too, staying together a year just to try to work it out is good in theory, but it doesn’t necessarily work in the real world if people are that unhappy

[AviatorTom]

It makes sense. If less than a year, the marriage gets annulled. The law doesn't prevent a breakup, just what you call it.

[strateguy632]

annul is hard to prove and therefore no help, if couples argue too much, or one tricked the other etc. or if parents pressure someone, but it was not a threat but not really consent but impossible to prove.

[Kaneki05]

It just makes sense.
If one married but can't even wait a year then they really should've waited to get married in the first place so that's on them.
I don't really care about marriage but I would agree with the idea there should be some consequence for just doing it otherwise everyone will just do it on a whim even with this they still do sadly, so I would actually advocate for more consequences.

If I ever got officially married it would not even be a question that it would be many years after been with the girl I want marry. Maybe 10 years.
We could have unofficial marriage for the fun it before then but no way would I get married without a decent amount of time.

[strateguy632]

but she married me when i exercised and was thin, now i switched exercise for eat donuts and chips?

[Kaneki05]

Should take you a couple months to put on weight so that will be fine for a bit.

[Joshydavid25]

I mean while I like the rule, and it makes sense I don't think the government should enforce anything between private citizens. From a limited government standpoint.. If people get married and divorce that quickly they shouldn't have gotten married at all, so the rule makes sense and would force people to really think before they make that step..

[IslaTheWitch]

waiting a year is standard in Germany... and some other European countries. Still 8 months to go...

[Cubus]

Considering how left wing UK is, I expect it to be changed soon.

[Kaneki05]

Pretty sure it's this way because we are. The more conservative ideal is ethier the government should have no say in marriages cause freedom over logical rules or no divorce period cause marriage is forever.
Meanwhile the left ideal is yeah divorce is okay but one should at least try and put more thought into it otherwise marriage might as well be another word for dating. So having a law to try encourage that is okay.

So if anything by logic we are more left it makes sense for this rule to not be changed.