I was married young when we were idealistic and committed everything to be shared, though I did have some individual property through gifts and inheritances. With hard work and a committed relationship, we built that plus our savings into a nearly FIRE sized portfolio. Then I got blindsided by her mid-life crisis and she unilaterally was able to make off with most of the assets (in part because I was trying to maintain stability for kids which apparently she (or her lawyer) didn't care about). It will cost me about 15 years until I'm ready to FIRE again. I cannot imagine getting married again without the protection of a prenup. It wasn't a question of commitment. I was fully and completely committed to that relationship (ouch, still hurts quite a bit to discuss) but no matter how much I worked at it or how many different avenues I tried to hold us together, it takes the action of two people to make a marriage and it only takes one of them to walk away. I can imagine being in a future relationship that I would be fully committed to, and I would expect that everything we do together after marriage is ours together, but I cannot imagine exposing my current individual assets before that marriage to the possibility of another divorce scenario. I'm 100% for prenup, despite being in general 100% romantic and deeply committed. It's like insurance for an unlikely but potentially devastating scenario.