living together before marriage: opinions?

[chitownxo]

My husband and I moved in together right after we got engaged. We looked at it as more of a money-saving thing than a test. After all, we were paying two rents, had two grocery, cable, electric, etc. bills, we thought it made more financial sense to combine all of that. It was a good thing for us -- even though we were practically living together before I officially moved to his place (we spent weeknights at my place, weekends at his), I didn't know all of his quirks, nor he mine. If we were to divorce, and I found Mr. Right Version 2.0, I'd do the same thing.