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b'Excerpt of Bear and Susan\'s comments on why marriage is important?\\n\\n"The difference between a contract and a covenant for us was really significant. We had the contract, essentially, with our domestic partnership, because once marriage equality hit California for that little brief time, essentially they said, \\u201cIt\\u2019s now going to be as difficult to separate from a domestic partnership as it would be getting a divorce. So, essentially you\\u2019re married, but you\\u2019re not married.\\u201d\\n\\nSo, the contract was already there. It was the covenant. It was sharing making our love and commitment to each other, our exclusive lifelong commitment to each other \\u2013 public, celebrated before God and all these witnesses. And that\\u2019s what it was, including our kids.\\n\\nAlso, there is language involved \\u2013 if you use the word \\u201cthis is my partner\\u201d \\u2013 you\\u2019re not exactly sure what that means. It could mean any number of things (business partner\\u2026). But when we got married, Susan inherited, I mean she became my kids\\u2019 \\u201cmother-in-law-in-law,\\u201d and I became the mother-in-law of her kids and grandchildren, my mother became her mother-in-law \\u2013 and now there\\u2019s language. And people understand that.\\n\\nSo, when we\\u2019re out with Susan\\u2019s kids they\\u2019ll introduce me to their friends as their mother-in-law. And that\\u2019s different from saying my mother\\u2019s partner or something., because there is the in-law, which actually means \\u201cin-law.\\u201d And that was important to us." \\nFull transcript at tamfs.org/interviews'