It’s to stop you from giving away all your stuff the day (week, month, year) before you die to try to dodge inheritance tax. You can only give away so much in the years running up to your death without it counting as part of your estate when you die.
So, marriage
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Ah,
I'll not be worrying then. Her estate would be above IHT, But she better last more than another 7 years, I quite like having her around.
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12 years together, married 1 year 
Ah yes I see. Fair dos! Marriage should be well, well better on tax though. Combined income tax for a start. I'd also like full Poland mode with zero tax for parents with 2 kids but baby steps!
A ten grand gift, for example, would only be liable for inheritence tax on 7k as theres a 3k allowance..in reality its peanuts, even if the estate does go over the inheritence tax threshold.
It only really becomes an issue if the estate is huge, and there are several beneficaries, and one of them was getting a lot of cash 'gifts' in the lead up to the death, and the others didn't ...it starts getting compicated...but if the estate is valuable enough, if you are executor, It's worth employing a probate solicitor to sort all that out, as they will know all the in's and out's. Acouple of grand on a specialist solicitor is cheap if the estate is a million quid+.
The solicitors fees will come off the top line of the estate account balance, also, so it's not like you have to pay for it personally as executor/administrator.
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My hand and I have been together for what seems like forever 
Oh you lucky so and so, I so wanted a 206 but I was poor and in college so I ended up with a H reg purple Escort. My mate worked in his family business straight out of school and rolled up to my house one day in a brand new 206. To this day I think he did it just to make me jealous
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24 Years for us, 13 of which we have been married.
Together 15 years married for 13
Au contrair, I would've loved to rag a dirty old escort about at 17Oh you lucky so and so, I so wanted a 206 but I was poor and in college so I ended up with a H reg purple Escort. My mate worked in his family business straight out of school and rolled up to my house one day in a brand new 206. To this day I think he did it just to make me jealous
Like the entire post, I lied (never!), and actually did not have a 206. My first was technically the same as yours, albeit a decade or so later/newer.
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I was married once and was having an affair within a year. I have been unmarried with my current partner (the lady I had the affair with) since 96.
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42 December coming.
I’d be out years ago.
I’d be out years ago.
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My brother went out with a girl in his teens and then they went their separate ways, went to uni, etc. They randomly bumped into each other on a night out years later in their mid 20s and they’ve been together ever since, like 15 years.
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What partner? Been single for nearly six years.