Cohabitating

              Many people think it is healthy to cohabitate before marriage.  People have many reasons like to get more familiar with how your lover lives. Maybe see if you are compatible in a sexual way. Another is to be able to spend more time together. Others reasons people tend to cohabitate before marriage is because they think it is easier and less expensive. Contrary to popular belief these things are not true.  Statistics show that people who live together before marriage are more likely to get a divorce. Also couples who gradually start living together are usually the ones who have worse of relationships. This is because there are not boundaries set in what friends can become between you. Also their is no dating involved when your are spending time together but rather just "hanging out" and not do planned activities that help progress the relationship in a healthy way.

               Instead of cohabitating a couple should try to date and not live together. Statistics show that if a couple continues to date and then becomes engaged and eventually married that the marriage is much stronger and those couple tend to stay married then the cohabitating ones.