Doesn’t really explain why the state needs to recognize it. It’s just a couple legal rights, most of which can be given via power of attorney, and for some you will pay thousands more in taxes. Loving someone else changes nothing about marriage, it’s the same before and after.
It’s an old internet rule, tits or gtfo, meaning prove it, because everyone makes claims like being a girl or being whatever, and on the internet, you’re nothing until proven otherwise.
So many posts about this, about time for a reveal to prove it.
Fuck all this advice, leave. Go where you are happier with the weather. That is the only solution.
You, from your perspective at that time, did not. History cannot be retconned. You had a girlfriend, and that person changed their definitions at a later time.