does increased privacy, personal space and spending less time together save couples from growing sick of one another as quickly?

So, everyone knows a girls dream is to get married and find her love. But, in my eyes, all I see is a money wasting ceremony, that you can literally do by not getting married. So what, you won't have their last name. So what, you won't legally be married. So why is being married so important? It's like your being stuck with someone your entire life, and if you want to leave, you have to spend more money. I don't plan on getting married nay time soon, but how would I tell someone I don't want to get married yet still want to stay together. Would it offend them?

He would wear it before

My ex husband and I were together for about 7 years, since I was 16, and married 2 years. I left him for being abusive mentally, physically, and emotionally. I was still so in love with him because I knew he was such a good man, but right after we got married he picked up a new job and started drinking heavily and that's when the abuse started. I stuck with him and tried to help him out of the darkness, but he refused to let me in and continued to get worse. He refused to quit the job because of the pay. So I left him in hopes that he'd snap back into reality and realize he's losing everything. He filed for the divorce and moved onto to a new girl. It's been a year and I still love him very much. There's been a few times after the divorce that he has contacted me and we have met up after he's explained how sorry he is and how much he loves me and wants to fix things. Then he stopped talking to me after having sex like we were in high school again or something. Obviously, this has happened again recently I am just so confused and hurt still. I don't feel like I know how to be strong and not go back to him. Will I ever be able to stop loving him? Will I ever stop hurting?

He has this female friend whom he has known for years, at one point, we all use to work together, they use to hang out a lot at work when they weren't busy. She was married at the time and is still married to the same guy. Anyways, she's always insistently flirty with my husband and he doens't seem to care, he is actually flattered by her attention. My problem is, she hasn't been the only one to come around to him like that, there have been others throughout the years and he again has never told them to back off, he just welcomes the attention. I don't think he has ever cheated on me, but he seems to enjoy female attention a lot, I don't feel it should be up to me to be the one to tell these women to back off, that should be what he says, yet it's always left up to me to say something to the women. Is he just not that interested in me or is a cheater type maybe ? Does anyone else deal with this issue and what can I do about it ? Oh, and another thing, there are things that he wears that I don't think flatter his body type at all, but if another female tells him he looks good that way, he will wear it because she likes it. Update: We are going to be moving from Texas to Florida this summer and now am not sure I want to take that step, my family is here in Texas and we are basically moving to further advance his career, which am supportive of, but scared that this marriage might not be heading in a good direction

She has him and the family in hers

My husband talked about how smoking hot she was for about 15 minutes. It really bothered me. They don't work in the same building but in their line of work, they will have to work together. I stopped by his work and he was outside smoking, she was out there with him, she does not smoke. I know he is married not blind, it just bothers me about all the stuff he was saying about her. Should I be concerned about this? He said he went out there with his friend and she followed them, I should have said that. The next time I seen them she was at his work place sitting next to him at a table. We have been married 18 years. I have said men are good looking but they are famous movie stars. Like I would ever get to meet them much less date them.

Lol, me and my wife have to. Apparently when I'm asleep, I'm very selfish with the blanket, even a queen sized one, and I pull it off of her to keep to myself. Again, that's when I'm asleep so I don't know I'm doing that. So, she and I sleep with separate blankets now.