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“When I met my husband-to-be, we’d both just moved into our first ‘grown up’ apartments, about 20 miles away from each other. We were both paying over $1,000 in rent each month, which was a lot since we were just starting out in our careers. We decided to get married so that we could split our finances like rent, groceries, and even the electric bill. We could have moved in together as boyfriend-girlfriend, but we were in love and felt better about living together if we were officially married. We got married the day after I turned 23.” —Grace L., 30