Posted on 06/01/2023 8:54:45 PM PDT by DeweyCA
This research is probably valid. My wife and I are the exception.
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I think it comes down to whether how paternalistic the society is.
How so?
Regards,
That makes no sense
Hummm... My wife and I must be one of the exceptions to the rule. Over 40 years of marriage. All of our friends are 30-50 year marriages, in all cases(7 couples) and they all cohabitated prior to getting married.
BTW 7 year itch is a real thing.
My wife and I lived together 2 years before getting married. 40 years and 3 kids later we still are fine.
“ Two of the world’s leading scholars on the harmful impact of cohabitation on relational health and marital success”
So, two virtually unknowns with a stated bias against cohabitation issue a study.
In other important news, my dog has a vet appointment today.
BTW 7 year itch is a real thing.
Dang sure is...
We lived together for 4 years before “deciding” 20 years ago. Year 7 was challenging. Not sure why but it was...maybe all the former “cute” stuff wore thin.
“Cohabitation”
Already married. Bible
Cohabitation × X = -trust
John 4
it is my belief that when you live together you tend to keep things separate (bank accounts, bills, etc). That habit can carry over into marriage and be a poison pill to the marriage.
In marriage, you have to be a team working together.
The article isn’t saying that ALL who cohabitate will divorce. It’s showing a trend. As a society do we want to strengthen marriages, families and our overall culture? We should teach what works best given the research. Your milage, of course, may vary - for better or worse.
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.
Matt. 19:8 He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.”
My wife and I did not live together until after we were married. We dated all four years of high school and got married the week after I got out of Boot Camp.
We have been together for 36 years and have four daughters and ten grandkids.
My two oldest daughters are both already divorced and both cohabitated with their ex-husbands before marriage. But my two youngest both cohabitated with their current husbands and are still married.
So...I don’t know.
That is the truth.
Modern feminism.
That's the norm today. Unless you're a Mormon or some other religious group.
Your junior high school years don't count!
Regards,
“the stats don’t lie”
The problem is that stats often confuse correlation with causation.
In this case it may well be that people who do not cohabitate are more stable to begin with....
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