Smashing the wedding bells

From a young age girls are taught to be ready to get married, all excited and planning it on Pinterest, but what is not discussed is how totally unnecessary a marriage as an institution is.  Why must people have a document to prove that they are in love?  Marriage is a total trap and a preconceived idea.  Just because two people don't want to get married doesn't mean they can't buy a house, raise a family, be successful all around and live together for the rest of their lives.  Even if this wasn't the case, why the need for marriage?  From what I understand, marriage is for religious reasons (which is understandable and totally reasonable, though I do not agree), for financial reasons (insurance, etc.), an unplanned pregnancy (again, two people could still raise a child if they weren't bound together by the law), to possibly hide one's homosexual preference, among other reasons.  Marriage as an institution seems really only to be about reproducing, which America in 2017 DOES NOT NEED.  As Emma Goldman stated in Marriage and Love, “marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact- in taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments.  If, however, women’s premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, “until death doth part.”  Marriage is just one more thing to spend a bunch of money on and make you feel “more complete.”