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I lived with two guys, but both times it was a short-term arrangement. The summer after my freshman year I lived with my boyfriend during the week because I was taking summer classes in the town he was living and it made the most sense to do rather than driving an hour each way from my mom and dad's house. It seemed fine but it was obviously for a short-term duration so I'm not sure what a good reflection of what us actually living together would have been like.
I lived with my current boyfriend this summer because I was working in his town and it was a weird experience. We've been dating a long time so I was pretty sure I knew all his annoying quirks - wrong! You can "play nice" on weekend visits all you want, but that's not necessarily how you actually live. I'm glad we did it and we learned a lot about our relationship. If we can't get married in the church because we shacked up, then so be it. My parents got married by a judge and they've been together thirty years.
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