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Originally Posted by bettertomorrow1
Hey everyone! I have been dating a USC for a while now, and we got engaged last weekend! She and her parents know the situation that my family and I are in, and are fully supportive (which is a bit ironic because her hometown is known to be VERY conservative lol - I found a good one!).
Anyway, our wedding is set for next summer, but I wanted to start preparing for the AoS process right away. What are some of the things that she and I can do even before marriage that will be helpful for the whole process? I am not currently living with her and we won't be until we get married. However, we will probably find a place to live in a couple months prior to the wedding and will sign it under our names so Im sure that's helpful! Any other advice or tips for what we can do right now would be great!
Thanks in advance (:
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Good for you for taking steps to get out of this hellhole!
Some of the things you could do may be difficult since you are not married yet and since you don't live together yet (i.e. don't share the same address). Here are some things:
-Share a bank account.
-Share one or more credit cards (be authorized users on each other cards).
-One of you adds the other to their car insurance.
-One of you adds the other as beneficiary of life insurance.
-Go on a vacation/trip together and save receipts/records that clearly demonstrate the two of you traveled together.
-Take more pictures of yourselves together, especially of the two of you with family members and mutual friends and at events.