I just don't get this....

[PJW]

Their disabilities must not be very serious, if it garners only $300 a month for two disabled people. I think that they should revisit the officials that determine their payments. It sounds fishy to me.
I guess that their love is of less worth than $1500, if they need to lie about it.
And it doesn't take a pastor or a ceremony to constitute a marriage. Two becoming one flesh constitutes a marriage.

[Justin Roll]

Yes thier disabilties are serious. They have what called DSM 5. There is no treatment for DSM 5, only medication. If they get "legally married" then thier insurances will be cut off, and then everything that they have will be gone. Try to look up DSM 5 and to see IF it really is worth the trouble.

[RLG]

To compromise or not to compromise .... this is the question. If we were watching our children starve, would we steal a loaf of bread to feed them ? Would I ? I'm thinking yes, I most likely would. I couldn't bear to watch them suffer. This OP provides for much considering. My struggle with this matter lies in the lack of full-disclosure more so than in regards to the "legal marriage" issue. If they married under a pastor or a justice of the peace, in my eyes, they are married nonetheless. This is a toughie to ponder in lieu of their disabilities.

[teddyv]

Yes thier disabilties are serious. They have what called DSM 5. There is no treatment for DSM 5, only medication. If they get "legally married" then thier insurances will be cut off, and then everything that they have will be gone. Try to look up DSM 5 and to see IF it really is worth the trouble.

DSM-5, as far as I am aware is the "planned fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5). This not a condition - it's a book.

Whatever they have might be in there, but this book has not even been published yet.

Weird.

[Justin Roll]

The reason for the book can be found here; http://www.dsm5.org/ProposedRevision...n.aspx?rid=407

DSM-5, as far as I am aware is the "planned fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders" (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSM-5). This not a condition - it's a book.

Whatever they have might be in there, but this book has not even been published yet.

Weird.

[Justin Roll]

To compromise or not to compromise .... this is the question. If we were watching our children starve, would we steal a loaf of bread to feed them ? Would I ? I'm thinking yes, I most likely would. I couldn't bear to watch them suffer. This OP provides for much considering. My struggle with this matter lies in the lack of full-disclosure more so than in regards to the "legal marriage" issue. If they married under a pastor or a justice of the peace, in my eyes, they are married nonetheless. This is a toughie to ponder in lieu of their disabilities.

Thank you for your Christian comment. They don't have kids and they are not going to have any because of thier disabilities.