Is Living Together As Good As Marriage? Science says: NO WAY !

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 Why "Living Together" may NOT be such a good idea.

 The REAL danger in ”just living together” is not mentioned in this article. When you choose to move in with someone INSTEAD of committing to marriage it is probably because ONE of you has reservations about this being the “right” person. As time goes by your lives get “comfortable”, finances get tangled (you buy a house/sign a lease), moving out means more expenses than you have been accustomed to. You have nowhere to go. All your friends say: “when you two gonna get married anyhow?” So in the end you may “slide” into marriage because it becomes the path of least resistance.

In 2002 the CDC found that for married couples the percentage of the relationships ending after 5 years was 20%, for unmarried cohabitators the percentage was 49%. After 10 years of marriage "only" 33% of marriages would end in divorce.

I have not found a single piece of research on the internet or pubished elsewhere that reports a more positive outcome for co-habitation than for marriage. The damage to lives, finances, and children is monumental.
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