MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Dear married binners, please explain

I am trying to understand the benefits of marriage in 2018, and want to understand why anyone would do it other than you have 5 dollars in your pocket and the person you might marry is rich.

The reason I ask and became interested is every time I hear about a married person having an affair, I hear "they didn't break any laws" and that gets me thinking. Is it not part of a marriage contract to be faithful? So they definitely broke the contract but not the law, I guess that's it? Maybe a dumb question but I don't really care.

Why would you get married in the world of 2018? You sign a marriage contract and make vows but nothing means anything other than the richer person will lose half their stuff upon split?

Humor me and list benefits. I see, maybe you are in love and a marriage will make it way harder for them to break up with you, that could be a benefit, and I see tax benefits that I guess would be helpful if you are rich and plan to be together with that person for the rest of your life anyway, might as well take the tax break.

I do see the romance of the marriage day and honeymoon as a benefit, but it's a few days for tens of thousands of dollars. Plenty of other ways to get that type of romance, go take a trip together to Venice or something.

Anyway I would like to know what the benefits are because it looks like the stupidest thing anyone could do unless you are poor and they are rich.