Try before you buy...
Yes, it is a contract - one ordained by God.
"Love" (or more likely, your lust) just won't cut it.
What about AFTER you’re married. That may be a more telling poll.
You do not have to be a teenager.
I cohabited before marriage when I was 63 ( Grin).
And she is one wonderful cook.
Why buy a cow if you get milk for free.
Feminism destroyed women with lies.
I was 20 in 77
Not much different then honestly girls just hid the fact more
Bigger news is lower class whites rarely marry now
I know no married couple that did not live together before marriage.
cohabitate is not a word.
Welcome to post-Christian America.
Yeah, good luck with that. The current crop of American males don’t even know how to talk with females much less cohabit with them.
That milk from the cow will turn to cottage cheese.
I asked a woman who had been married and divorced and who was street wise why this was so, and she said: "The woman who lives with a man befor marriage KNOWS he broke the rules to do so. She doesn't trust him. In her mind, he'll break the rules again and have sex with another woman besides her."
Blam!
The desire to cohabitate before marriage as a “test” shows a complete misunderstanding of the nature of marriage. It reveals that someone is entering into a selfish relations that is only valued if one gets something out of it: what is in it for me? Marriage, on the other hand, is a selfless gift to one another: what can I give to the other? For marriage to succeed one must be “all in” from the beginning.
Do you want to live happily ever after? The best marriage odds are these: there is a 96% chance you will be happily yoked for life if you do the following: forego cohabiting prior to marriage, go to Church on Sundays, and forego artificial contraception.
Anything less cuts down the odds.
Many do not dare to hope that a life long happy marriage is possible. We must try to restore hope and faith in the souls of our young people even when we are not good role models of it ourselves. If we want the best for our children and our country.
I remember reading a while ago that the divorce rate was greater for couples living together first. The belief was that when you are living together you are more willing to make compromises. Once, they got married, it was “I’m not putting up with that the rest of my life.”
By the way, God’s view is quite clear.
I cohabitated with wife #1 for two years and we got divorced. Did not cohabitate with my current wife prior to our marriage and things are a lot better. May also be a coincidence.
We told our kids marriage is not only godly but meant to protect the weaker partner ... usually the wife and always the kids.
Case in point ... cohabiting friends ... he died ... she loses the house.
We had a 50 percent success rate. :(
My wife and I, our siblings, and most of our friends are in our 80’s or will soon be there.
What we are seeing people avoiding remarriage after the first spouse dies, and the number one reason are his supposedly adult children and in particular the women offspring of the male widower.
Instead of being happy that their widowed Dads found a nice woman to spend the rest of his life with, they often become open saboteurs of Dad’s remarriage.
These blood baths often become even worse open warfare if Dad dies and leaves most of his estate to his second wife not to the so called adult children of the first marriage.