Is marriage only bound after sex?<\/a>, while researching the topic for personal reasons, and I had to thank somebody for publishing such a concise and information-dense exchange between these two. It really gave me the information I needed to work some things out. This was a Law-School-Quality dialogue.<\/p>\n\tAnswer:<\/h2>\n
Thank you for the kind words.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Question: I came across this exchange,\u00a0Is marriage only bound after sex?, while researching the topic for personal reasons, and I had to thank somebody for publishing such a concise and information-dense exchange between these two. It really gave me the information I needed to work some things out. This was a Law-School-Quality dialogue. 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