If you got married in MA, what status would you use to file U.S. federal taxes? (Look at me, only just barely not going off on the huge rant about how it's ricockulous to divide people into "married" and "single" instead of "married" and "unmarried"! Feel free, of course, to imagine me ranting if you feel deprived of the ridiculousness.) Likewise, I've considered the Netherlands option but I'm not sure I want to stay in the Netherlands or lie to the U.S. government or fight for the right to be recognized as unmarried so long as the laws here remain unequal. Bleaurgh. I'm so glad I can afford to stay unmarried and avoid all these issues, not to mention all the personal cognitive dissonance crap. Instead, self-righteousness galore!
But then the question(s) is (are)...
Date: 2005-05-04 12:37 am (UTC)