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Thursday, February 10, 2005

Living Together vs. Getting Married

When you make that decision to move your relationship to the next level with your significant other, you have to decide if your going to get married or just live together.

To help you decided you can look at the statistics.

About half of the couples living together break up before they get married.
A lot of people are under the impression that living together will increase your chances of a marriage working out later.

Living together is not as big of a step as marriage, if things go wrong you can get out of it easier, just move back out.

One of the biggest problems with living together is the lack of commitment, either person can just pack up their stuff with fewer consequences.

If you keep this attitude, that your living together is just a trial to see how it goes. It is easy to just get lazy and your relationship may never progress past this stage, that can start to cause problems at some point.

By living together your saying that you trust this person but just not enough to get married.
Of the people who live together and have separate bank accounts, your chance of making it go way down. If you are not willing to share your money with this person how are you going to share the rest of your life.

If you look at the statistics, Married people are less likely to get into fights, and call the cops on each other. Married people have less problems with:

  • Alcoholism
  • Spousal abuse
  • Depression
  • Drug abuse


Married couples live longer and are not as likely to cheat.

Since the 1970’s living together has been on the increase and marriage has been on the decline.

If you look at the statistics there is no real benefits to living together, and a lot of disadvantages.

If you are someone who wants the best odds of a happy relationship, your best bet is to spend your time and find a good person and marry them before living together.

Online dating services offer a lot of good people interested in marriage.



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