My wife and I lived together for 2 years before getting married. It was the best decision we ever made. And it had nothing to do with any of those myths. We were aware that you don’t truly know a person until you live with them.
It’s one thing when you are seeing someone, you are always putting up a front. Truly knowing someone cannot happen until you live with them and the front is taken down.
Again, best decision we ever made.
Exactly. People who are against it think that people live together to have sex. My experience is that people just want to see if they are compatible. I know a number of older people who are looking for companionship after the death of a spouse who live together before marrying. That especially is an issue if both come to the marriage with their own assets and families. You want to make sure a marriage is right in those circumstances before you take the plunge.
“Truly knowing someone cannot happen until you live with them and the front is taken down.”
If always leaving the bathroom door hanging open is part of taking down “the front” then I don’t want to know.
“Love Stinks” is just a song by the J. Geils Band.