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Even before I became an active Christian I thought living together was not a wise thing to do. The lack of legal recourse alone was enough to keep me away from it not to mention "getting the milk for free" idea. So while I respect other cultures and their traditions, I do not think we should just through out the "baby with the bathwater" in terms of marriage in the US nor blame the lack of support for co-habitation on Christians.
Maybe its a generational thing for us (because let's face it - this is an age of instant gratification - a mentality of "if you don't like it, go out and get a new one"). You can live together with everyone you date from here until you die, but if you don't have the drive, determination or even wit to understand what a marriage is, much less the amount of WORK it takes to keep it going, you will always find something that the other person is doing and use it as an excuse to not marry him/her. Its like you have 2 people never learn the art of compromise, which is an ESSENTIAL element of making a marriage work.
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Last edited by Honeykiss1974; 03-03-2006 at 05:52 PM.
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