[Aric2000]

I do NOT understand what the huge deal is, I lived with my wife for 2 1/2 years before we got married, and thank goodness I did. It showed me that I was indeed making the right decision.

We have now been married 9 years, been together almost 12 and have 2 beautiful children and another on the way. Living together first helped us figure out exactly how compatible we were and allowed us to go into marriage without any doubts that we were doing the right thing.

Marriage without living together first is a BIG mistake as far as I am concerned, but just because it worked for me does not necassarily make it right for others.

[scalia_#1]

I do NOT understand what the huge deal is . . . .

You're never going to win the argument against people who know better than you do how to live your life. Prepare to be told that "you are an exception, not the rule so clearly demonstrated by this 'study.'" If you and your wife divorce, then "don't say we didn't warn you."

This is the kind of soft social science that we conservatives usually lambast, except when it suits our purposes, of course.

[RaceBannon]

1 Corinthians 6:15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?(NOTE: This is only true if you are a True Christian)
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.