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How to have kids without being married (our paperwork in Greece)

This is my first post in English after many people asking me to write in a language they can read. Well, I am sorry for being away for a while, I promise I will invest more time on my blog. So for my first English blog entry, I will explain how my life has changed after getting married in Greece...with a woman. Everyone had the chance to fight against any bureaucratic system y, yes? Every time one has to deal with any public organization we need double coffee, double patience, a really good book to queue and wait and maybe a punching bag after to hit it at home imagining the face of the public worker who asked us the extra paper job. I am sure that any reader could understand the frustration of the process if you are an expat and you have to do this dirty job, not in your mother language. Just to give you some background information, the day we went to ask for our AFM (the Greek tax number) I asked the public worker "do you speak English?". The answer was "yes