Used to be six months verifiable cohabitation equaled a “Common Law Marriage” in Texas ( dunno what it is now), meant she could divorce you and claim 1/2 your assets. I ran into a real unhappy Software Engineer in the BMW motorcycle shop in Austin one time, seems his Stripper Common Law wife had waited seven months with all her bills etc mailed to that guy’s address as proof of residency, then sued him for divorce.
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
