Relationships & Sexual Health: Cohabitation

Cohabitation
Is living with your significant other a good idea?

According to the facts, living with your boyfriend or girlfriend outside of marriage could lead to more trouble than you bargained for. Check it out:

Those who live together before marriage are the least likely to marry each other.
Those who live together before marriage have higher separation and divorce rates.
Those who have premarital sex are more likely to have extramarital affairs.
Those who have "trial" marriages do not have better marriages.
Those who live together do not experience the best sex. (Actually, church ladies are having the best sex!)
Those who live together are setting up a situation to possibly hurt their children.
Couples who live together outside of marriage are more likely to divorce later if/when they get married. The effects of divorce on children can be traumatizing, and it puts their children at risk themselves for unstable and broken relationships.

FYI: Today our nation has the third highest divorce rate in the world!

Resources

Shacking Up; 40 Reasons Why Not To; Wise Advice from Someone Who Has
Anne James-Sieff

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