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I never cohabited as a test and I don't advocate it. I cohabited because it felt right at the time. I can't imagine feeling strongly enough about somebody to want to marry them and not feeling like I wanted to be around them before or to have sex with them, assuming I had no other commitment. The only reason I can imagine anybody would do that is because one felt a commitment to some rules that God or some other authority laid down, and I think such rules are long outdated, at least in the eyes of the majority of the population, and I think we are better off for that.

I personally view marriage as a commitment and not to be entered into lightly, especially once kids are involved, as I think did all my friends.

Thanks for the candid reply. As you can probably guess, I don't agree with your position (since I don't think that God is outdated), but you do have free will (which He gave to you, by the way :). I also don't think that by ignoring these kinds of moral issues we are "better off for it", as you put it, but I don't have time to go there, and I don't want to get any farther off topic than I have.

Nice chatting.