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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
I had a friend who lost half of his pension in his divorce. At first that felt so wrong to me. Then friends starting having children and taking time off work, becoming behind in their career and missing years of pension contributions. I would not ever have a child with someone I’m not married to, and if my partner wanted to take time off work I’d encourage them to at least do just the legal part to protect themselves in case we ever split
gpt
Also I would never get married without a pre-nuptual to protect existing assets (or at least having everything in a trust)

I have a family friend who owned a house (fully paid off) prior to being married and a stipulation of his was that a prenup needee to be signed

A decade or so later and they get a divorce, the prenup essentially makes it so that the house is not even considered as they tallied up the assets. So it was a 50/50 split *ignoring* the house