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Originally posted by blueangel
Apparently, you didn't ready my post very carefully. I said that if your purpose of living with someone outside of marriage is for sex, then it is your decision. I'm not making judgements, just bringing up facts as they relate to the poster. She wants to marry this man.
Here are some facts from various studies:
*The risk of divorce after living together is 40 to 85% higher than the risk of divorce after not living together. In other words, those who live together before marriage are almost twice as likely to divorce than those who did not live together.
_ _ _ (Bumpass & Sweet 1995; Hall & Zhao 1995; Bracher, Santow, Morgan &
_ _ _ Russell 1993; DeMaris & Rao 1992 and Glen 1990).
*10% to 30% of cohabitors intend to never marry (Bumpass & Sweet 1990).
*Those who cohabit more than once prior to marriage have much higher rates of later divorce - 26% for women and 19% for men
(Brown & Booth 1996;McManus 1993; Stets 1993; Thompson & Colella 1992).
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What if your purpose in living together with someone outside of marriage is to save money on TEH bills since one of you is living off a pathetic government salary and the other one is living off student loans? Eh? Is that okay?
-GP
--They say Eh in Minnesota so I'm starting to practice