living together before marriage: opinions?

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I've never lived with a boyfriend and me and my boyfriend moved in together about two months ago, after having only dated 3 months. I know, sounds crazy. I was having horrible roommate issues (we had just renewed our lease, then she got pregnant and wanted her own place and we argued over who was going to pay the fee to break our lease - in the end she did) so I moved in with him. We both knew it would be temporary since he was only in Augusta for a class, but there was a possibility he may have been picked up for another class that would have kept him here until August 08 (Army stuff). Unfortunately, that didn't happen. But in the meantime of living together we've grown a lot closer and figured out our roles (he cooks and does the dishes, I vacuum and clean the bathrooms, we both take out trash, and I take care of the pets since I brought them) and it's worked out really well. So well, that we are buying a house together since he's wanted to start investing in property for a while now anyway and I'll live in it while he's deployed and then wherever he ends up after, we'll both move there and buy a new house and rent this one out. My parents always told me they thought it would be better to live with a guy before I marry him. Now, we're not engaged (yet) but we have discussed it a couple of times so we'll see....

BTW, we close on the new house tomorrow morning! AAH! And I'm still running around getting paperwork together (I'm in real estate and since I'm not licensed yet, the agent I work for is handling it but I'm doing most of the work).