living together before marriage: opinions?

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Originally Posted by AOII Angel

I think this whole deal about "statistics" proving people who live together before getting married makes them more likely to divorce is right up there with people believing that more people have pre-marital sex now than they did 50 years ago. A recent, very well conducted survey of people aged 12-90-ish proved that more than 80% of people had pre-marital sex. We want to think that being virgins until marriage is the way things are supposed to be, but it's a fantasy. Now no one jump down my throat, I know there are people who do this, but they are a minority.

Are you saying that the stats are assigning causal value to cohabitation while a third variable may have more explanatory power?

You and your husband are more of the exception than the rule. But wait...was this intro a petition for you and your husband being considered more of the rule than everyone thinks? Surely you don't really believe that.