This report is written to examine the effects of cohabitation before marriage on maintaining a success relationship among Western countries as there have been a number of issues which has happened to cause people around the world to have concern in analysing the relationship between the two.
Cohabitation is different from marriage. Cohabitation is a form that a couple who has not married live together in a close relationship permanently. However, marriage is a legally recognized agreement of a couple by making them into a husband and a wife. In Europe, the traditional understanding of a family consist of a husband, a wife and children is quite common. Meanwhile, there is another type of concept of a family has been introduced which is non-marital …show more content…
When a couple lives together, it simply means that they share a house. This will make it cheaper compare to if they live separately in two houses and everything has to pay double. If one of the partner has some financial issues, they also able to help each other out. According to Langham (2014), cohabitation can help to achieve financial stabilities. The bills of daily expenses can be separate between a couples when they are living together. For example, one can be paying the rental and bills, while the other can be paying the groceries needed. Couples who is financially unstable or still studying will choose to cohabitate first as they wants to delay marriage. They choose to holdup marriage not only for the reason of the difficulty for the wedding cost, but also the fear of financial hardship which may lead to them to end their relationship by divorce (Naze 2013). Umutesi (2013) talks about a girl name Rose, who has been together with her boyfriend for 4 years. They decided to tie a knot in the fourth year of their relationship but her boyfriend has some financial problem. At last she decide to move in his house to live together as she is pregnant without married. This has proved that cohabitation can save money as a marriage include wedding and honeymoon is way too
Cohabitation is different from marriage. Cohabitation is a form that a couple who has not married live together in a close relationship permanently. However, marriage is a legally recognized agreement of a couple by making them into a husband and a wife. In Europe, the traditional understanding of a family consist of a husband, a wife and children is quite common. Meanwhile, there is another type of concept of a family has been introduced which is non-marital …show more content…
When a couple lives together, it simply means that they share a house. This will make it cheaper compare to if they live separately in two houses and everything has to pay double. If one of the partner has some financial issues, they also able to help each other out. According to Langham (2014), cohabitation can help to achieve financial stabilities. The bills of daily expenses can be separate between a couples when they are living together. For example, one can be paying the rental and bills, while the other can be paying the groceries needed. Couples who is financially unstable or still studying will choose to cohabitate first as they wants to delay marriage. They choose to holdup marriage not only for the reason of the difficulty for the wedding cost, but also the fear of financial hardship which may lead to them to end their relationship by divorce (Naze 2013). Umutesi (2013) talks about a girl name Rose, who has been together with her boyfriend for 4 years. They decided to tie a knot in the fourth year of their relationship but her boyfriend has some financial problem. At last she decide to move in his house to live together as she is pregnant without married. This has proved that cohabitation can save money as a marriage include wedding and honeymoon is way too