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Originally posted by imsohappythatiama
Plus, more people who live together before marriage tend to divorce than people who wait to live together until after they tie the knot.
Just my .02.
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I think people are incorrectly inferring causation from correlation here.
I think the reason for this statistic is that people who live together before marriage tend to have more liberal views towards marriage, thus they are more likely to leave a marriage that isn't working out. People with more conservative views towards marriage are less likely to live together before marriage and more likely to stay in an unhappy marriage, trying to make it work.
I don't think that the idea that living together before marriage causes divorce is true at all.