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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 580865" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>DDD, that is why I NEVER refer to Tony as my husband. Notice my signature. I used to have SO in there. Now its Partner. I sometimes say boyfriend or my kids father. Social security knows we live together and they know we have lived together for almost 30 years. So does Medicaid. It is the same reason many elderly people dont marry after they retire because they get more as individuals with their own retirement accounts than they would if they married and combined them. Then they would only get the head of households amount and a spousal amount which is about half the heads. Normally not as much as the two apart. </p><p></p><p>The closest Tony gets to calling us married is referring to me as his "old lady" and I give him heck about that. He does it jokingly because Im 9 months older than him so he has referred to me as being older than him forever. </p><p></p><p>I go to a ton of doctors and such places and have to explain living situations and I never say I am married. I am always divorced and live with a significant other who is the father of my youngest two sons. Sometimes people do a double take when they hear the ages of the kids but no one really questions me. If they seem a bit iffy, I just say I did marriage once and it was so bad I would never do it again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 580865, member: 1514"] DDD, that is why I NEVER refer to Tony as my husband. Notice my signature. I used to have SO in there. Now its Partner. I sometimes say boyfriend or my kids father. Social security knows we live together and they know we have lived together for almost 30 years. So does Medicaid. It is the same reason many elderly people dont marry after they retire because they get more as individuals with their own retirement accounts than they would if they married and combined them. Then they would only get the head of households amount and a spousal amount which is about half the heads. Normally not as much as the two apart. The closest Tony gets to calling us married is referring to me as his "old lady" and I give him heck about that. He does it jokingly because Im 9 months older than him so he has referred to me as being older than him forever. I go to a ton of doctors and such places and have to explain living situations and I never say I am married. I am always divorced and live with a significant other who is the father of my youngest two sons. Sometimes people do a double take when they hear the ages of the kids but no one really questions me. If they seem a bit iffy, I just say I did marriage once and it was so bad I would never do it again. [/QUOTE]
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