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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.
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That would be a great conversation: "baby, I love you, but how do you feel about downgrading our marriage?"