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"My current partner and I plan to get married for legal benefits and stay together for some time."

Comes off sounding like a business transaction, which is fine if that's how you plan to leverage the idea of marriage, but then again it probably should be properly labeled as a joint business venture/partnership where people have written agreements to protect each other's assets in case of things going badly between them.

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It has a romantic and friendship aspect as well though, as the primary purpose over the legal benefits, which are a distant third to those two. Bad wording on my part, sorry. Editing to be clearer. Anyone that knows us would see us externally as any other couple in terms of relationship style unless we have specifically talked about our relationship more with them.

My point is that people leverage the legal construct of marriage in many ways, and prenups enable that. To say that a prenup is inherently a sign of lack of trust is far from accurate.

In practice, I agree it does often point to that, but there are plenty of counterexamples. I would argue it works as such a good indicator due to how many bad relationships are out there.

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