Imagine the beautiful wedding is over and now it is time for the real work to begin – move to the house of dreams with a person of dreams and begin life together. However, you have never lived under one roof before and definitely there might be some challenges. At the same time in recent years, there is an increasing number of cohabitation in the society. According to Dr. Bruce Wydick, professor at the University of San-Francisco, cohabitation may be defined as an intimate sexual union between two unmarried partners who share the same living quarter for a sustained period of time.
Regardless of whether you lived together before or not, such a special event in your life as marriage will be beautiful anyways. There is some statistics that people …show more content…
It is all about learning personal differences and routines although this is not always easy. There is a lot to learn about a partner and from a partner. For example, it is possible to know if the person is messy or clean, how he prefers to share household and if he prefers to stay on the coach or go out on the weekend. The only way to find out these detailed facts is to move in together. In the beginning of the relations everybody falls in love instantly and mostly see the partner’s positive sides. Moreover, simple dating does not provide with a whole picture of the lover’s lifestyle. Living together is a great opportunity to know all your partner’s habits and traits of character which are not obviously seen. Paul Popenoe, the first marriage counselor, points out that living together helps you see past romanticized notions and clue in to what marriage will really be like. Respectively, choosing reality as a primary factor to determine the result of cohabitation is a smart decision. People who cohabitate get an idea of whether they will be able to share their lives with the partners they have chosen and what kind of disagreements might exist in the …show more content…
They claim that rate of divorce of cohabitating families is higher than normal marriage families. Other example also shows that half of the cohabitating families will separate in less than two years (Hayward and Brandon, 2010). However, is there any prove that couple’s divorce was directly connected to the fact that they lived together before marriage? A new study from the Council on Contemporary Families says moving in before marriage does not make a divorce statistic automatically. Choosing a partner too early, however, might. People who are married being young are more likely to divorce because they are not mature enough to choose appropriate partners. Some other people tend to say that by living together before marriage, couples can violate their religious and family values because in some religions and cultures this act can be punished or considered as a sin. But these problems can be avoided by getting an approval from family. Another disadvantage people can think of is that unmarried couples are more likely to have unwanted pregnancy and children, and if their relationship does not work well, their child can suffer from parents' unsuccessful relationship. Nevertheless, this could be avoided if unmarried couples follow their responsibilities carefully and use the appropriate means of birth
Regardless of whether you lived together before or not, such a special event in your life as marriage will be beautiful anyways. There is some statistics that people …show more content…
It is all about learning personal differences and routines although this is not always easy. There is a lot to learn about a partner and from a partner. For example, it is possible to know if the person is messy or clean, how he prefers to share household and if he prefers to stay on the coach or go out on the weekend. The only way to find out these detailed facts is to move in together. In the beginning of the relations everybody falls in love instantly and mostly see the partner’s positive sides. Moreover, simple dating does not provide with a whole picture of the lover’s lifestyle. Living together is a great opportunity to know all your partner’s habits and traits of character which are not obviously seen. Paul Popenoe, the first marriage counselor, points out that living together helps you see past romanticized notions and clue in to what marriage will really be like. Respectively, choosing reality as a primary factor to determine the result of cohabitation is a smart decision. People who cohabitate get an idea of whether they will be able to share their lives with the partners they have chosen and what kind of disagreements might exist in the …show more content…
They claim that rate of divorce of cohabitating families is higher than normal marriage families. Other example also shows that half of the cohabitating families will separate in less than two years (Hayward and Brandon, 2010). However, is there any prove that couple’s divorce was directly connected to the fact that they lived together before marriage? A new study from the Council on Contemporary Families says moving in before marriage does not make a divorce statistic automatically. Choosing a partner too early, however, might. People who are married being young are more likely to divorce because they are not mature enough to choose appropriate partners. Some other people tend to say that by living together before marriage, couples can violate their religious and family values because in some religions and cultures this act can be punished or considered as a sin. But these problems can be avoided by getting an approval from family. Another disadvantage people can think of is that unmarried couples are more likely to have unwanted pregnancy and children, and if their relationship does not work well, their child can suffer from parents' unsuccessful relationship. Nevertheless, this could be avoided if unmarried couples follow their responsibilities carefully and use the appropriate means of birth