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That would be a great conversation: "baby, I love you, but how do you feel about downgrading our marriage?"
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how do you feel about downgrading our marriage?
I'm guessing that for the small number of couples affected, they would regard the conversion of a heterosexual marriage into a heterosexual civil partnership as an upgrade in the same way as the many homosexual couples who have converted from civil partnership to marriage do. I just don't know whether it will be on offer or even whether it would be possible as a simple conversion, since it involves the dissolution of a marriage which is something currently organised mainly as a revenue generating exercise for solicitors. Since the solicitors' lobby in parliament is so strong, I can't see them giving up even that small sector of potential revenue without a massive fight.
gbj_tester
Wonder what they will do when civil partnerships are extended to heterosexuals. The same sex marriage act allows civil partnerships to be converted into marriages, which presumably keeps everybody happy as people who got civil partnerships only because they couldn't get married can "upgrade". In the case of heterosexuals, there must be couples who got married only because they weren't allowed civil partnerships...